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 Nagarβa community where many …
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From Proprietary to Open Source: Navigating the Software License Maze
Keys depecting licenses. Photo by plenty.r., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This post was written as part of Summer Internship 2024 Imagine you’ve created a new software tool to help small businesses with customer support. You’re excited to share it with others, but you also want to make sure your hard work is protected and that people use it …
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 …
Introducing our new website
We have redesigned our site using WordPress. Work is going to add more content and make it multilingual. Reach out to us if you would like to improve!
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 …
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Be a Maker
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Bala Swecha
Bridging the digital divide
Freedom Box
We are building community networks in remote parts of the state.