Publications
Blog posts, reports and older pages kept as a record.
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Earth Defenders Toolkit is being launched today
Earth Defenders Toolkit has many openly-licensed resources that earth defender communities around the world can use.
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COVID-19 Resources for Odisha
Information page for testing, hospitals, oxygen, district-wise helpline numbers and free food during COVID-19 pandemic in Odisha.
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We’re updating OpenSpeaks and we’d love to hear from you!
We’re updating OpenSpeaks audio-visual language documentation toolkit and we need your feedback to improve it.
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Language Resources Release during Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2019
We are helping indigenous language communities create media and information literacy resource pages. Help us compile resources in your language too.
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Welcoming Ramjit Tudu
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
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Meeting notes: Marginalized Community Council, 9 Aug 2019
Digital activism has been phenomenal in growing awareness and building resources and support system for marginalised communities around the world. We identify this as an extremely important cause and thought of bringing
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Meet Ramjit Tudu, the host of the @AsiaLangsOnline Twitter account for Sep 3 – Sep 9, 2019
This post is authored by Christie Maria James of Digital Empowerment Foundation and was originally posted on Rising Voices under a CC-BY 3.0 license. Read more about the @AsiaLangsOnline project that is collaboratively i
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Meet the 2019 Yoti Digital Identity Fellows
This post was originally authored by Ken Banks of Yoti Ltd. and was published on the Yoti blog. Blog copyrighted by the original author. Earlier this year, after an extended period of research and evaluation, we announc
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Wikimania2019: From Sustainable Development Goals to Indigenous Languages
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 …
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Recommendations for the growth of indigenous, endangered and other marginalised languages
What is really important to create for growing any indigenous, endangered or any other marginalised language? We share a few recommendations—thanks to friends from many communities that we closely work with.
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What we’re doing for International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL)
The year of 2019 is celebrated globally as the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL)—there are a whole range of activities to promote indigenous languages and grow resources online.
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[Repost] A new rotating Twitter campaign will focus on perspectives of language activists from Asia
This post, authored by Rising Voices, originally appeared on Rising Voices, and is about a collaborative initiative that we’re also a partner in. Beginning on Tuesday, August 6, a rotating roster of language activists fr
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Marginalized Community Council
This is an archived project and is kept here for historical purposes. Last updated on July 29, 2021. Marginalized Community Council is an online working group that is working towards addressing vital marginalised issues—
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Reflecting from Global Voices Asia-Pacific Summit 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
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 indiv
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Creative Commons Summit 2019: Openness in marginalised languages
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
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OFDN is creating a Marginalized Community Council
A big part of our work is around the marginalised 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
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A Snapshot Of The #DecolonizeTheInternet Conference
This blog is a repost of the original piece titled “Snapshot of Our #DecolonizeTheInternet Conference” that was originally authored by Kira Allmann and Claudia Pozo. It recaps the “Decolonize the Internet (DTI) Conferenc
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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 ca
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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
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Converting Santali text typed in ASCII to Unicode
Santali-language text typed in Ol chiki using ASCII and other legacy encoding systems can now be converted to Unicode so that the text can be used universally, online content will be easily searchable and users can reuse…
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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 oth
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It took us 13 years to celebrate Software Freedom Day in Bhubaneswar. We are not looking back!
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 Fre
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Thank you Anasuya Sengupta and Shuttleworth Foundation!
With the Flash Grant from Anasuya Sengupta and Shuttleworth Foundation we’re building Open Source tools for Indian marginalised languages.
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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
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Media mentions
Publication of our work in blogs, television, newspapers, and other media. 2018 “Kathabhidhana“. Outliers. 1 March 2018 [..]Kathabhidhana is an open toolkit to record a large number of words. It consists of a few free/li
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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
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OpenSpeaks got wings with a National Geographic Society grant!
Subhashish Panigrahi of O Foundation was rewarded with a National Geographic grant to work on the documentation of a few endangered languages from South Asia.
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“Open Curriculum Development For Language Documentation”: OpenSpeaks at MozFest 2017
Subhashish Panigrahi and Prateek Pattanaik from O Foundation conducted a session at the Mozilla Festival Conference 2017.
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How we celebrated Bhubaneswar’s First Software Freedom Day
It took us 13 years to celebrate Software Freedom Day for the first time in Bhubaneswar. We’re not looking back now! Bhubaneswar celebrated its first Software Freedom Day on September 16 though it took 13 long years to b
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Wikimania 2017: Talk on software and hardware for Wikimedia Commons
Subhashish Panigrahi presented “8 FLOSS tools and 4 hardware for audio, video and image editing for Commons” at Wikimania 2017, Montreal, Canada recently. The talk touch-bases some of the very user-friendly Open Source t
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Activities
List of conferences, seminars, workshops and other events we have organised, co-organised, and participated. Wikimania 2018 + Decolonizing the Internet at Cape Town, South Africa (participation, speaking, and recording l
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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 scho