Subhashish P. 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.
No community can express the pain of losing an elder, especially when she was the last fluent speaker of their language. Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda died on January 25, 2020 in Kulmor village of Dang district in western Nepal, an
We are really excited to share the new addition to our core team as Ramjit Tudu has joined us as the lead coordinator for managing the Marginalized Community Council. Ramjit will also spearhead other initiatives focused towards the digital
Many in the publishing industry, especially in India, have not yet migrated to Unicode, a universal character encoding that simplifies the challenges in accessing and sharing typed textual content in any language that use complex writing systems. Some of
We spoke to Karbi community elder Mr. D.S. Teron who has been self-sponsoring research on the Karbi language and the culture.The audio recording and additional research were made by Subhashish Panigrahi and all the content and metadata are released under
Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, a day that the United Nations started in December 1994 to strengthen the rights of indigenous groups around the world. Through our work with many indigenous language speakers, we
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*The Ho version in Warang Citi alphabet. If you don’t have the font, download a freely-licensed font from here. This write-up first appeared on OpenSpeaks, one of our flagship projects.
Half of world’s languages (6500) might
In the last few years, a need
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