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| HOME | PROGRAM | ORGANISERS | FRIENDLY SPACE POLICY | MEDIA GALLERY | REPORT |
| Day 1 - 6 November Policy | Shaping Futures through Governance & Planning Emcee: Sneha PP | Ether Pad: https://pad.oki-india.org/p/bb25_0611 | ||
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| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Inaugural Session | IIIT Hyderabad |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Opening Remarks | Prof. Vasudeva Varma & Tanveer Hasan, IIIT-H & OKI |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Keynote Session | |
| Language Policy and Infrastructures for Digital Societies | Vadrevu Chinaveerabhadrudu, Author, Retd. IAS officer | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Panel Discussion | |
| Language Policy in Education & Governance | Moderator: Prof. Aditi Mukherjee, IIIT-H - Dr. Boro Baski, Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram - Dr. Deepak Pawar, Marathi Abhyas Kendra - Dr. Papia Sengupta, JNU - G. Yadaiah, Koythore Bata | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Workshop | |
| Uli: Co-creating Datasets for Safe Online Spaces |
Denny George & Kaustubha K, Tattle Civic Technologies | |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | Roundtable | |
| Tech-Policy Interventions for Low-Resource Languages | Moderator: Anivar Aravind, Independent Researcher - Banwang Losu, Wancho Literary Society - Dr. Bhushan Bhave, Vidya Prabodhini - Dr. Meenakshi Munda, Kolhan University - Runa Bhattacharjee, Wikimedia Projects | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Tea Break | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Release of works from Ho language - AN IDEAL HO' TRANSLATION and AN IDEAL HO' LANGUAGE | - Authored by Dr. Das Ram Barda - Published by Adivasi Ho' Samaj Mahasabha at Bahu Bhasa 2025 |
| 16:45 - 17:45 |
Fireside Chat | |
| The Future of Language Activism | Prof. P. Sainath, PARI with Prof. Dipti Misra, IIIT-H | |
| Day 2 - 7 November Product and Technology | Infrastructures for Access & Innovation Emcee: Pavan Santhosh S | Ether Pad: https://pad.oki-india.org/p/bb25_0711 | ||
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| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Keynote | |
| AI and Indian Languages: Promise and Problems | Prof. Arjun Ghosh, IIT Delhi | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Demo | |
| Language Tools for Public Services Etherpad: https://pad.oki-india.org/p/bb25_0711_DO0 |
Facilitator: Nivas Ramisetty, OKI, IIIT-H - Kabyanil Talukdar, Aakhor AI - Naresh Deogam, Adivasi Ho Samaj Mahasabha - Sanjeev Tiwari, Gurtur Goth - Dr. Soni Wadhwa, Sindhi archive - Neechal Karan, Tamil Wikipedia | |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Workshop Registration: Introduction to NLP and Machine Translation tools for Indian Languages by Vandan M | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Workshop | |
| Introduction to NLP and Machine Translation tools for Indian Languages | Prof. Dipti Misra, Arafat Ahsan & team, LTRC, IIIT-H | |
| 15:30 - 16:45 | Panel Discussion | |
| Localisation and Digital Inclusion | Moderator: Purnima Tammireddy, Publisher and Translator - Kundan Amitabh, Angika.com - Jayesh Sharma, Translator, Interpreter & Research Scholar in Sindhi - Dr.Uma Bhrugubanda, EFLU - Hemant Rajopadhye, Linguist - Dr. Bitasta Das, Indian Institute of Science | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Tea Break | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Interactive Session | |
| Found in Mediation | Translation Experiments at the Intersection of Science and Art | Bindu B.S., Vishwas Solagi and Shelwyn James, Science Gallery Bengaluru | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Day 3 - 8 November People | Community, Culture and Innovation Emcee: Subodh K | Ether Pad: https://pad.oki-india.org/p/bb25_0811 | ||
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| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 10:00 - 11:15 | Panel Discussion | |
| Building resources for Low resource/Low visibility contexts | Moderator: Smita Khator, PARI - Sakshi Jain, Katha - Dr. Medari Tham, St. Anthony’s College Shillong - Touqeer Ashraf, Keashur Praw - Nitesh Bhardwaj, Adivasi Janjagruti - Bansi Sharma, Eklavya | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Demo | |
| Open Knowledge Platforms in Action | Facilitator: Nitesh Gill, OKI, IIIT-H - Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Wiki Loves - Bodhisattwa Mandal, Bengali Wikisource - Jinoy Tom Jacob, OSM Kerala - Sai Phanindra, Swecha | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Workshop | |
| Evaluating the Evaluators: The Case of Translation Evaluation | Arafat Ahsan & team, LTRC, IIIT-H | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tea Break | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Keynote | |
| Way forward, what next, how to build this as a meaningful engagement | Dr. Rukmini Banerji, Pratham | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Reflections from the attendees | - Nida Eqbal, Rekhta Foundation - Ashwini Lele, Academician - Machek Awan, RIWATCH |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Closing Remarks | - Prof. Sandeep Shukla, Director, IIIT-Hyderabad - Prof. Vasudeva Varma, IIIT-Hyderabad - Subodh Kulkarni, OKI, IIIT-Hyderabad |