This post was written as part of the KLU Social Internship organised by Swecha Andhra Pradesh. See outreach dashboard of this internship for metrics or our page on meta.wikimedia.org for more of our activities in Wikimedia. Introduction I am B Suraj Patra, a first-year CSE student at K L University, and recently, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in …
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Be a Maker: Empowering Young Innovators to Solve Real-World Problems
Case Study from October 2024- By KLGLUG Team Be A Maker It is an exciting new initiative which was unfolding and It encourages children in government schools to identify the challenges they face in their daily lives and come up with creative solutions through brainstorming. Over the span of four days, the event fosters innovative thinking, helping the students approach …
Free Software and Open Knowledge Systems as a catalyst to bridge digital divide through Community Networks
I want to present our experience on how Free and Open Source Software and Open Knowledge Systems worked as a catalyst in our mission to bridge the digital divide through Community Networks. Dates back to 2016 when we advocated community networks and Freedombox as tools to combat surveillance. But later we went on to implement in rural areas as Public …
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 Nagar—a community where many …
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 …
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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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