Writing, public speaking, performance and other work documentations

Writings

Books, journals and conference proceedings

Panigrahi, Subhashish. “OpenSpeaks: Transforming Learning of Tech Innovations in Low-Resource Language Documentations to Open Educational Resources.” Linguapax Review 2021, vol. 9, 2021, pp. 124–37, https://www.linguapax.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/LinguapaxReview9-2021-low.pdf.
Panigrahi, Subhashish. “MarginalizedAadhaar: India’s Aadhaar Biometric ID and Mass Surveillance.” Interactions, vol. 29, no. 2, Feb. 2022, pp. 16–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517173.
Panigrahi, Subhashish. “Open Civic Engagement in a Panopticon State.” Interactions, vol. 28, no. 6, Nov. 2021, pp. 10–11, https://doi.org/10.1145/3494046. (as a part of the Otherwise School at the University of Washington)
Panigrahi, Subhashish. “An Account of How Critical Information about Privacy Is Missing in Indigneous Languages of India and Ways to Avoid It.” 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), University of Hawai’i, Manoa Hamilton Library, 2021, p. 6, https://doi.org/10125/74513.
Panigrahi, Subhashish, and Eddie Avila. “Building Networks of Language Digital Activists for Peer Learning and Knowledge Exchange.” 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), University of Hawai’i, Manoa Hamilton Library, https://doi.org/10125/74476.
[BOOK CHAPTER] Panigrahi, Subhashish. “Can Openness and Open Standards Help Revitalise Marginalised Languages?” Young People, Social Inclusion and Digitalisation, Council of Europe, 2021, p. 73, https://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/42128013/47261623/YKB-27-WEB.pdf/dbab979b-75ff-4ee8-b3da-c10dc57650d5.
Panigrahi, Subhashish, and Pooja Saxena. Bringing Ol Chiki to the Digital World. Humanities Commons, 2016, https://doi.org/10.17613/FXTH-8555.
[BOOK CHAPTER] Panigrahi, Subhashish. Rising Voices. Indigenous Language Digital Activism. meson press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/1351.

Op-eds and other writings

I have contributed technical, analytic and opinion pieces in several publications such as Global Voices, Opensource.com, The Wire, HuffPost, Wikimedia Blog, Mozilla, Creative Commons, Asia Times, The Hoot, Medianama and DNA and Bangalore Mirror. I received the Opensource.com 2015 People’s Choice Award and the “Wikimedia Advocate and Expert” award for coverage on the use of open-source software in the Wikimedia movement. I am a regular contributor to Global Voices, an international citizen journalism media organization focusing on India’s changing digital rights landscape and language digital activism.

Panigrahi, Subhashish. “Is Digital ID System, Aadhaar, a Tech Solution for Socio-Economic Problem?” Business Standard India, 18 Aug. 2020. Business Standard, https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/is-digital-id-system-aadhaar-a-tech-solution-for-socio-economic-problem-120081800243_1.html.
Panigrahi, Subhashish. “There Are 23 Indian-Language Wikipedias. The Oldest Just Turned 15.” Business Standard India, 9 June 2017. Business Standard, https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/there-are-23-indian-language-wikipedias-the-oldest-just-turned-15-117060900589_1.html.
Panigrahi, Subhashish. “8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias.” HuffPost, 19 Mar. 2016, https://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/8-of-many-challenges-in-g_b_9457704.html.
Panigrahi, Subhashish.“Why It’s Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias.” HuffPost, 25 Jan. 2016, https://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/when-wikipedia-is-turning_b_9025690.html.

Public speaking

2022

April 25 (poster and paper presentation): Building a Public Domain Voice Database for Odia. Wiki Workshop 2022, The Web Conference 2022.
March 9 (panel): Linguapax International. Presentation of the 2021 Linguapax Review & Live Panel on Language Technologies and Language Diversity.
March 9 (presentation): Mozilla Festival. Low-resource languages, and their open source AI/ML solutions through a radical empathy lens.
March 8 (panel): Mozilla Festival. Transcribing Oral Knowledge with Wikisource.
March 7 (panel): Mozilla Festival. With what words should I speak? Impact of Voice technology on Language Diversity.

2021

Panigrahi, Subhashish, and Sailesh Patnaik. Building the Wiki-Way for Low-Resource Languages. United Nations, 2021, https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2021-town-hall-42-building-the-wiki-way-for-low-resource-languages.
October 19 (panel): Othering & Belonging Conference 2021. UC Berkely. Reimagining the Politics of Technology Creation: Towards Technology for Belonging.
May 21 (panel): Response-ability Tech 2021 Summit. National biometric identity systems: The case of Aadhaar (video recording).
June 7-11: RightsCon 2021. “Building an open toolkit to document Indigenous languages”.

May - Jun: Re:Publica.
- May 21: (featured talk) “No Digital Rights if You Are Marginalized in India”. video
- May 13 - Jun 6: “Screening of “MarginalizedAadhaar” - 2019 documentary” (off-stage)
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.
- Mar. 18 “Multilingual films as digital rights teaching aids for activism in Asia-Pacific”.
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)
February 26: Workshop Story Time Cafe with Internet Master Storytellers by Mozilla (Moderator: Laura Vidal)
January 25: Lecture in online MOOC titled “Linguistic Diversity, What for?” on Coursera by Linguapax, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Lecture titled “Rising Voices: Amplifying Marginalized Voices through Digital Language Activism”

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”
June 2: Keynote speaker at Global Voices Asia Pacific Summit 2019, Taipei, Taiwan panel: ”The rise and challenge of digital authoritarianism in the Asia Pacific“.
May 11: Presented a session titled ”OpenSpeaks: Open Archives of the Voices of the Commons“ at Creative Commons Global Summit 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.

2018

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
August: Wikimania 2018, Capetown, South Africa a wide participation detailed here
Speaker, “Multi-stakeholder Model of Internet Governance Forum and Issues of Developing Countries”, Nepal Internet Governance Forum, Kathmandu, Nepal
Organizer, “Internet Society Southeast Asia Focused Engagement Meeting”, Bangkok, Thailand
Organizer, “2018 Internet Society Asia-Pacific & Middle East Chapters Meeting“, Kathmandu, Nepal

Co-speaker, “How to create a digital archive for indigenous languages”, Celtic Knot Wikipedia Languages Conference 2018, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Organizer, “2018 Internet Stakeholders Meeting”, Yangon, Myanmar

2017

Speaker, “Digital collaboration to Save the Languages“, TEDxIBABangalore, Bengaluru, India
Speaker, “Would you let a language die”, TEDxYouthAmaatraAcademy, Bengaluru, India
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)
Speaker, Kathabhidhana: “Recording words for Wiktionary and preparing for an AI assistant”, Wikimania 2017, Montreal, Canada
Speaker, “Kathabhidhana, open source toolkit to record pronunciations of any world language”. Celtic Knot Conference 2017, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Co-facilitator, Mozilla D&I Design Sprint 2017, Vancouver, Canada

2016

Mozilla All Hands 2016, Hawaii, US
All Things Open 2016, Raleigh, NC, US
Talk “Cross-community collaboration in Localization”. FUEL GILT Conference 2016, New Delhi, India (video on YouTube)
Panel lead and workshop. “How to better tell your Wikimedia community story using media as a tool”. WikiConference India 2016, Chandigarh, India

Schools, Performances and other work documentations

2021: Awarded to be a part of the Otherwise School, University of Washington
2019: Collaboration with artist Paribartana Mohanty for the performance “What does it take to imagine a resistance in fiction?” Five Million Incidents (2019-2020) with support by Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan and Raqs Media.