April 25: Asia Indigenous Youth Platform Consultation, UNESCO Bangkok. Presentation about the @AsiaLangsOnline campaign and Rising Voices.
March 8–19: [Mozilla Festival 2021]
Mar. 17 OpenSpeaks: Translating language documentation toolkit into an indigenous language, a session focused on the the language protection emergency in the light of UNESCO’s International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL), and learning from documenting indigenous and endangered languages and cultures as a way forward for climate action and sustainable changes.
November 10: Internet Governance Forum 2020. “Data to Inclusion: Building datasets in African Languages” — a panel discussion highlighting the machine learning/artificial intelligence initiatives and other indigenous/endangered language revitalization efforts around the world and particularly in Africa. Highlighted three aspects — a) digital shift in governance and exclusion, b) use of Openness (specifically, open technology and open content) in furthering building resource for low-resource languages, and c) ambivalence of social media from the standpoints of both rights and as a language-promotion tool [ 🎬 recording • original submission ]
October 20: Creative Commons Virtual Global Summit. “Building content from bottom up” — a hands-on session on documenting “consent-seeking” for diverse community practices for open content development and creating a conceptual framework. The outcomes of this session would contribute to the research under the ambit of project OpenSpeaks at the O Foundation that was supported through a Creative Commons Global Network Communities Activity Fund. [ 👨🏫 presentation ]
September 2-3: eLife Innovation Sprint 2020. Contributed in strategy and development for project “Affordabee: Low-Cost Open Access Publishing” that is currently working towards building a resource hub for researchers from Africa and other developing regions where scholars face challenges with accessing academic research because of paywall.
September: UNESCO organized an international conference for kicking off the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL) campaign. The conference titled “Role of Linguistic Diversity in Building a Global Community with Shared Future” was held in Changsha, China where I presented a paper titled ”Rising Voices: The Digital Possibilities for Marginalized Languages“
National Geographic Citizen Science Workshop 2018, Hong Kong
Organizer, “2017 Internet Society Asia-Pacific Chapters Meeting”, Singapore
Kathabhidhana, an open source toolkit to record pronunciation of large chunks of words in any language, curate metadata and help grow one the basic building blocks—pronunciation library—that is needed for machine learning and Natural Language Processing.
(Co-presented with Prateek Pattanaik at the Celtic Knot Conference 2017, University of Edinburgh UK; Organized a workshop at Wikimania 2017, Montreal, Canada)
