Public speaking

2021 (upcoming)

• March 4-7: 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, US.
  • “An account of how critical information about privacy is missing in indigenous languages of India and ways to avoid it” (paper).
  • “Building networks of language digital activists for peer learning and knowledge exchange” (poster presentation, co-presenter: Eddie Avila)

2020

• November 19: “MarginalizedAadhaar: Aadhaar and exclusion of marginalised communities in India” as a part of course “Aadhar: India’s digital identity project for a billion people” taught by Prateek Sibal, Sciences Po, Paris.
• 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 22: Creative Commons Virtual Global Summit. “How social justice initiatives can further Creative Commons” — a session on how social justice researchers and rights advocate initiatives can find common grounds to contribute to Creative Commons. [ 📖 outcomes and reading ]
• 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.
• July 10: Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference. “Panel discussion: COVID-19 and the Wikimedia community”

2019

• August 9: DEF Dialogues, Digital Empowerment Foundation. “Digitally preserving marginalised languages”