[Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Staff Addition: Mani Pande as Senior Research Analyst, Global Development

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Always wondered why there are near nil female Wikipedians from India ,
unlike other countries.. in spite of lots of women bloggers, twitterusers &
Tech savy journalists from India.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>wrote:

> Welcome, Mani - always thrilled to see more women in the fold. :)
>
> Look forward to meeting up,
> Bishakha
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:08 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
> tinucherian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mani Pande,
>>                     Welcome to the Wikimedia family. Don't forget to
>> attend one of our Wikimeetups , when in India :)
>>
>> Regards
>> Tinu Cherian
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>
>>>  It is my pleasure to welcome Mani Pande to the Wikimedia team.
>>>
>>> Mani joins as the Senior Research Analyst, Global Development.  In this
>>> role, Mani will work across the Global Development team and the organization
>>> as a whole to design and lead research work that helps us make good
>>> strategic decisions and evaluate the results of the work that we do (to make
>>> even better decisions).  In addition, Mani will help to design and deploy
>>> metrics for key Global Development areas so that we can monitor our
>>> performance against the strategic plan.
>>>
>>> A native of New Delhi, Mani brings a global perspective to our work. Her
>>> passion lies in understanding how consumers use technology to map
>>> opportunity spaces for new product strategies and industry growth. She has a
>>> special interest in the transformative technology experiences brought about
>>> through the use of mobile devices by emerging market consumers. She has also
>>> extensively studied the growth of open source movement.
>>>
>>> Mani is an accomplished quantitative researcher & has conducted surveys
>>> studying technology usage, sustainability and health in US, India and China.
>>> Mani is an experienced ethnographer having conducted work in India, Brazil,
>>> Russia and China on technology usage and studying women in the software
>>> industry.  Mani worked for the Institute for the Future, a forecasting
>>> research organization based in Palo Alto,  for over 5 years. She has a PhD
>>> in Sociology from Kansas State University and an MA and MPhil in Sociology
>>> from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.  Before moving to the US to
>>> pursue her PhD, Mani worked as a reporter-cum-sub-editor for The Times of
>>> India. Her  beats were media (favorite assignments covering a Cindy Crawford
>>> press conference & Yanni's show at the Taj Mahal) & crime (no favorites
>>> here, just saw a lot of gross stuff).
>>>
>>> Mani loves to cook. Her specialties, Thai red curry, enchiladas in mole
>>> sauce (from scratch) & chicken biryani. She posts pics of food that she
>>> cooks on Twitter. You can see some of the pics (@manipande on Twitter).
>>>
>>> Welcome Mani!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Barry Newstead
>>> Chief Global Development Officer
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 634
>>> Skype: barry.wikimedia
>>> Twitter: @bazanews
>>>
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