AFVOA Newsletter of Year 2021

Section 3 – Value Add / Special Tasks CV 2 No. 01 / 2021 Page 15 of 123 Section 3 – Value Add / Special Tasks Completion of Second Wave of Digitization of Old AFVOA Newsletters The Managing Committee is delighted to announce that as on 24 Jan 21 we have completed the second wave of digitization of the old Newsletters. This constitutes the successful culmination of a cherished milestone in the Committee’s Wish List of unearthing AFVOA’s precious Time Capsule, so well nurtured by the pioneer members. Our assumptions indicate that a total number of 80 Newsletters were published between year 2000 and 2014 and 72 of them have now been recovered and digitized. That’s a whopping 90% of the target! While the Committee would still endeavour to reach the coveted milestone of achieving 100%, the second wave of digitization has been made live now. The other interesting data point is that the number of pages digitized thus far is 1,020. Here is a quick Ready – Reckoner for the digitization exercise : OLD NEWSLETTERS : DIGITIZED ARCHIVAL RECKONER 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 P = 4 C = 6 C = 6 C = 7 C = 6 P = 5 C = 5 P = 5 P = 4 P = 3 C = 6 C = 5 C = 5 C = 4 C = 1 M = 1 M = 1 M = 1 M = 2 M = 3 LEGEND : P = Partial C = Complete M = Missing TOTAL PUBLISHED = 80 TOTAL DIGITIZED = 72 (90%) TOTAL MISSING = 8 (10%) TOTAL PAGES DIGITIZED = 1,020 Being inveterate optimists, the Managing Committee members still nurse positive hopes of recovering the 8 x missing Newsletters from among the cache of documents kept in the office complex of the old MH Building. Whenever AFVOA is allotted a Wave 1, 37, 46% Wave 2, 35, 44% Missing, 8, 10% AFVOA OLD NEWSLETTERS DIGITIZATION Wave 1 Wave 2 Missing