Swecha Andhra Pradesh
Swecha Andhra Pradesh
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 …
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 …
To aid our efforts in the Balaswecha initiative, we decided to create a workbook for school level students to help them in learning computers better. Our volunteers spent several weeks in designing the structure of the book, content, assessments, interesting quizzes, and a lot more. The contents of the book are entirely based on free software and we utilised freely …
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 …
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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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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