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Wikimania2019: From Sustainable Development Goals to Indigenous Languages

Wikimania2019: From Sustainable Development Goals to Indigenous Languages

by | Aug 27, 2019 | Conferences

A summary of our initiatives at Wikimania 2019 at Stockholm, Sweden—a panel discussion on indigenous languages, a talk on Odia Wikipedia video tutorials on new editors and a poster presentation on Wikimedia projects for indigenous languages.

Reflecting from Global Voices Asia-Pacific Summit 2019, Taipei, Taiwan

by | Jul 30, 2019 | Conferences, Digital rights, India

Authoritarianism is not new—even societies that embraced democracy years ago still do not apply fully the democratic processes in their governance. With the rise of the Internet which was always intended to provide individuals more importance, there has been a...

Creative Commons Summit 2019: Openness in marginalized languages

by Subhashish P. | Jul 20, 2019 | Conferences

This year, we’re fortunate to be there at the Creative Commons Summit 2019 at Lisbon, Portugal. We presented a talk about OpenSpeaks titled—”OpenSpeaks: Open Archives of the Voices of the Commons“. Abstract Half of world’s languages (6500)...

Wikimania 2018 Cape Town, South Africa + Decolonizing the Internet

by Subhashish P. | Sep 10, 2018 | Blogs, Conferences

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 … Read the rest Related PostsOur...

It took us 13 years to celebrate Software Freedom Day in Bhubaneswar. We are not looking back!

by Sailesh Patnaik | Aug 10, 2018 | Blogs, Conferences

Bhubaneswar celebrated its first Software Freedom Day on September 16 though it took 13 long years to bring the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS/FOSS) enthusiasts and contributors under one roof.   Software Freedom Day (often acronymed as SFD) …...

Documenting language and culture: Wikipedia and beyond

by Subhashish P. | Jun 21, 2018 | Blogs, Meetings

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 … Read the rest...
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