Welcome Bishakha :-) >From my perspective having more focus on women's related topics and issues in the WMF projects would be a good thing! So I welcome your involvement; including your perspective as someone who has encouraged and empowered women to contribute in the public domain on women's issues.
Sydney Poore On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, all. Thought I would just introduce myself a bit more. > > Building on Michael (Snow's) email, for the last 12 years I have run Point > of View (www.pointofview,org), a Mumbai-based non-profit that puts the > voices and points of view of women in the public domain through media, art > and culture. We work on issues ranging from domestic violence, sex workers' > rights, gender and HIV - to enabling women in low-income communities to > access and use digital technologies (video, photo, net) to tell their own > stories and talk about their own realities. > > Info-activism, specially via online platforms, is one of the issues that we > started working on a couple of years back. Our first foray into > info-activism was as one of the seeders of the Public Access Digital Media > Archive (http://pad.ma), which is built on open source software and > principles. > > Apart from managing POV, I also make documentary videos on issues of gender > and sexuality, and am currently writing a non-fiction book on the lives of > sex workers in India. I also serve on the boards of many other non-profits > that work in the Global South, including CREA (www.creaworld.org) and > Breakthrough (www.breakthrough.tv) - and consult for foundations and > non-profits in India, the US, and parts of Africa. > > Coming to Michael (Peel's) question about my prior involvement with > Wikipedia, I'm one of its millions of daily readers/users around the world. > I have yet to contribute enough by way of edits to call myself an editor. > > Cheers - and really do look forward to contributing in more ways than one, > Bishakha _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l