Hello Everyone, The India Localization Sprint is an effort to bring together various people to translate essential privacy and security tools and guides into Indian Languages. While working with various communities in India we have identified a number of unmet needs when it comes to basic security tools and practices. The language barrier is a key access issue for users across India, particularly those who are parts of marginalized groups.
Often the assumption is that localization into Hindi and/or English will suffice for users across India. Most users do in fact access tech in Hindi or English, however neither language is the first language of the majority of the population. While users are able to generally navigate mobile phones and desktops in a second language, they do not necessarily understand how these technologies work, the privacy and security risks associated with them, and tactics for accessing the open internet. So, The Bachchao Project and *Localization Lab* <https://www.localizationlab.org/> and with the support by *Random Hacks of Kindness India* <https://twitter.com/rhokindia> and *DataMeet* <http://datameet.org/> is hosting this sprint to ensure broader adoption of basic security tools and practices – and as importantly, to ensure individuals fully understand the “why” and “how” of these tools and practices - one basic digital hygiene guide : We are localizing *Safe Sisters* <https://safesisters.net/>, developed in Uganda by Internews and Defend Defenders for female internet users. This guide provide a simple necessary steps that can be taken by women human rights defenders, journalists and activists to safeguard themselves. - two tools for secure messaging and uninhibited internet access: *Signal* <https://www.signal.org/> is an highly recommended secure messaging application used by people across the globe and *Psiphon* <https://psiphon.ca/> is a reputed virtual private network software that works towards uninhibited internet access. - one tool for secure documentation : (*Tella* <https://tella-app.org/>) is a secure documentation software for human rights workers, journalists and activists. This sprint is being held on 28th-29th Nov and 5th and 6th Dec 2020. Here is the wikipage for the event with a detailed agenda : *https://wiki.localizationlab.org/index.php/India_Localization_Sprint_2020* <https://wiki.localizationlab.org/index.php/India_Localization_Sprint_2020> If you are a translator or are simply interested to contribute to the localization of these tools and practices in your language. Please sign up for this event here *https://forms.gle/RM7CisegsJWMveNSA* <https://forms.gle/RM7CisegsJWMveNSA> The sprint consists of four days and one can choose to attend only one of the days or all the days based on their topic of interest. For those people who are in need of a better internet or facilities we also provide a stipend to cover their costs. For any other inquiries about this event please write to Chinmayi S K: chinm...@thebachchaoproject.org Thej -- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAABnYsUT%2Bs2qqrMghjYzCaD7YPV1cLym21sTaFOj2dAsQ_12sg%40mail.gmail.com.
