Subhashish Panigrahi

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Subhashish Panigrahi (@subhapa) is the founder of OpenSpeaks, an award winning project that helps grow open resources to digitally-document marginalized languages. He co-founded O Foundation (OFDN), a nonprofit that works towards addressing issues that lie in the cusp of people, culture, and technology with Openness in its core. He is the Chapter Development Manager for Asia-Pacific at the Internet Society, and has worled in the past at Mozilla, Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program, and Wikimedia Foundation to deepen the growth of open knowledge/source communities across Asia. Follow Subhashish at @subhapa on Twitter.

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How open access content helps fuel growth in Indian-language Wikipedias

How open access content helps fuel growth in Indian-language Wikipedias

Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in…

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3 copyright tips for students and educators

Copyright is a really complicated topic, and when it comes to online use of creative works, accidentally crossing the line between fair use and a copyright violation is easy…

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Preserving languages and cultures in India: The birth of the Tulu Wikipedia

After eight years of effort and outreach, the Tulu language Wikipedia has gone live. Wikimedia contributors play a key role in preserving languages and cultures, and tools…

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How to add freely licensed animated GIFs to Facebook and Twitter using Riffsy

Facebook has supported animated images for a while, but what do you do when you can't find the right GIF for your situation? For example, until recently, there was not a…

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The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off

Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in…

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Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface

Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way. More than 6.2 million people in…

Authored Comments

Somewhere in Mumbai in a moving local train.

11 Feb 2016

Kramden Institute bridges digital divide with refurbished computers

Such a gread read, thanks for this Don. A lot of developing nations could learn from such projects.

Somewhere in Mumbai in a moving local train.

10 Feb 2016

Why it's essential to grow Indian-language Wikipedias

Glad you found it useful, Neerav - -thanks. I am quite hopeful for the Digitial India initiative as well. Let's see where it is going.