Subhashish Panigrahi
Subhashish Panigrahi is one of the founding members of O Foundation and founder OpenSpeaks which won him the MJ Bear Fellowship and a grant from National Geographic to digitally-document threatened languages. A documentary filmmaker, Open Culture Advocate, and community catalyst over a decade of experience leading community building, outreach and partnership across Asia Pacific at Internet Society, Mozilla, Centre for Internet and Society, and Wikimedia Foundation.
OFDN is creating a Marginalized Community Council
A big part of our work is around the marginalized communities—we co-create technical and educational resources, and work closely with communities in helping them amplify their voices using media development as a tool.
In the last few years, a need …
White Paper 2: Responses to Oriya Script Root Zone Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) proposal 2018
Compiled by Subhashish Panigrahi and Prateek Pattanaik for O Foundation (OFDN)
All the comments except the one from Dr. Nasim Ali are compiled from interviews conducted during November 12-22, 2018. Individual comments can be attributed to the experts and the …
White Paper 1: O Foundation’s Responses to Oriya Script Root Zone Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) proposal 2018
This document is prepared by O Foundation (often acronymed as “OFDN”) based on a submission dated October 8, 2018 to the “Proposal for an Oriya Script Root Zone Label Generation Ruleset” (LGR) – the latter henceforth to be called the …
Wikimania 2018 Cape Town, South Africa + Decolonizing the Internet
Can you imagine a place other than New York City or Papua New Guinea where you can find people speaking hundreds of languages even in a small place? Well, it would be Wikimania, the annual conference of Wikipedia and other …
ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଟୁଲ
This is a comprehensive list of links that might be useful for those searching for Odia-language input tools for typing in Odia alphabet, or reading an Odia book online or even learning about a village fair or cuisine of Odisha.…
Digital resources for Santali (Ol chiki) mobile and desktop users
Santali is on of the indigenous languages that is spoken by roughly about 7.6 million people (including 6.9 million native speakers in India. Census 2011) that live mostly the eastern/northeastern states of India ( Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, …
Documenting language and culture: Wikipedia and beyond
Did you know that Wikipedia exists in 290 languages, and is growing everyday? It is intriguing that all those 40 million articles that exists in these Wikipedias are all written by thousands of volunteers from across the world. Wikipedia has …
Open Data Day 2018 celebration in Bhubaneswar
Open Data Day is in town! Every year, data enthusiasts—who advocate and contribute towards making useful data openly accessible—gather for a day to brainstorm and conduct hands on activities to grow more Openness around data. We have been working on …
Our participation at Wikimania 2017, Montreal, Canada
Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, was held in Montreal, Canada during August 11–13, 2017. Sailesh Patnaik and Subhashish Panigrahi of O Foundation were awarded Wikimania scholarships this year for their contribution to Wikimedia projects, …