Access to Knowledge

This project aims to identify knowledge gaps, challenges, and opportunities in different aspects of content creation and participation in Indian language Wikimedia projects, and catalyse the growth of open knowledge movement in South Asia and in Indic languages.
While this project has played a key role in the growth of the Indic language wikimedia community over the past decade, we are making efforts to reimagine A2K’s engagement and role within the Wikimedia movement and larger open knowledge movement in India. We are building a long-term plan that involves partnerships to digitise Indic language literature, technical collaboration with the FOSS movement and Wikimedia contributors, and community support in the form of creating sustainable learning and training models.
We are also attempting to develop a better understanding of systemic issues such as gender bias in Indian language communities, access to and reuse of content and specific experiences of content creation within Wikimedia projects in India.