The same technology can empower and disempower people.

We listen, learn and build media and tech with communities

  • Community media

    We analyse community media in local languages, and document and archive it together with communities.

  • Open tech

    We learn and build community-led technology.

  • Power structures

    We study and document how caste, gender, disability and race influence societies through tech.

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Initiative

Community collective building capacity, co-documenting audio-visual media, free and open-source software, frameworks and workflows.

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Archived at

Paper

Building a Public Domain Voice Database for Odia
Wiki Workshop, The Web Conference 2022

Initiative

A community network for archiving oral languages, memories and knowledges. OpenSpeaks is a key organiser.

Visit Archiving the Present

Community Language Documentation and Archiving workshops

  • People101
  • Countries14
  • Languages115

Type design

Chapakala 19

A revival of a nineteenth-century Odia letterpress typeface.

See the typeface

Specimen

Odia

Chapakala 19 typeface poster
SIL Open Font License 1.1Repository

Documentary films

Documentaries in and about Kusunda, Ho, Remosam (Bonda), Sundanese and other languages.

All films

Still from Gyani Maiya (2019)

On our films

“Sensitive and heart-touching! Save your language to save your soul.”

Anvita Abbi, Linguist, on Gyani Maiya

“Tremendous effort to embellish our identity. This is the beginning of a digital revolution in our Ho community.”

Sitaram Pingua, on Mage Porob

“Quite a visual treat.”

Benjamin Franz, Film Threat, on Nani Ma

“A wonderful testament to the power of citizen archivists.”

Carl Malamud, Public Resource, on The Volunteer Archivists