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Associate Professor Dr Faridah Noor Mohd Noor is the Deputy Dean of Research and Development at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, UM (Aug 2016-2018). She was the Director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue (Feb 2013 - Aug 2016). Her areas of research interests are in the fields of Sociolinguistics, TESOL, eCulture and Cultural Heritage, and she has supervised, published and presented papers in these areas at Internationall Conferences and National seminars.  She is the Chair of APAN's eCulture Working Group and MYREN's DCHH Working Group.  In December 2016 she facilitated and coordinated the Trans Eurasian Information Network (TEIN) Youth eCUlture Workshop with participants from ASEAN and TEIN Member countries. This was the fourth in the series of eCUlture Workshops she has organised with the support of ASEAN and TEIN-CC sponsorship.  She has presented at UNESCO virtual conferences, One Day in Asia and Connect Asia's Building a Green Society. Her major works include a collection of stories based on the oral tradition of Mah Meri Masks of Carey Island, Selangor, in collaboration with the Museum of Asian Arts (MSA), UM, and the digitisation of MSA's Mah Meri mask collection in collaboration with MMU.  In progress towards final stages are the projects on the database and digital mapping of the Malaysian Indigenous parked under the Centre for Malaysian Pribumi, the digital repository and oral history of places of worship reflecting Malaysia's Pre-Indepence Era under the Immortalising Cultural Heritage Research Programme, both funded by the Humanities Cluster.  Under the same programme, she is co-researcher studying Malay Jawi manuscripts and publications under two other sub-groups.  Under the CLMV programme, she works closely with the team to conduct TOT initiative with academics at universities in Laos.  She believes knowledge is power and is best when shared.