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Empowering Communities: Highlights from Our Medical Camp and Cloth Donation Drive

In the wake of the devastating floods in Vijayawada, our team came together to support the communities affected. We aimed not just to provide relief, but to empower individuals and inspire collective action. A Lifeline for Those in Need: The Medical Camp On September 15th 2024, we set up a medical camp in Vambay Colony, Singh Nagarβ€”a community where many …

Contribute to Wikidata and win prizes!

What is Wikidata? “Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary knowledge base, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.” In simple terms, Wikidata is a database of structured data about anything in the world. But what is structured data? Structured data is something that …

Visiting freedom box villages and charting plans for community empowerment

The history One year ago, we visited some remote places in Andhra Pradesh, India where there is no cellular connectivity, to set up community-run, wireless networks. The idea was to provide access to offline-only digital-content with the help of freedom box server with a wireless local area network using long range outdoor Wi-Fi antennas. In some villages, there was a wired optical …