Archive · 2019
Marginalized Community Council
Archived. First published on 2019-07-31.
This is an archived project and is kept here for historical purposes. Last updated on July 29, 2021.
Marginalized Community Council is an online working group that is working towards addressing vital marginalised issues—of societies, cultures, and languages.
Hosted at O Foundation (OFDN), the group meets online on a regular basis. Discussion summaries are documented and are published to help guide key stakeholders to make informed decision.
The members are selected on a periodic basis based on an open call and the first meeting was conducted on Aug. 9, 2019 to celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
- Publications & announcements
- Members
- Meeting notes
Focus areas
Key issues Areas for intervention Building open resources Contribute Key issues
Vital issues that are a hindrance to digital activism in marginalised languages (indigenous, endangered and other underrepresented languages), and other major marginalised issues
Areas for intervention
Identify areas that need immediate intervention, publish recommendations to help policymakers and other such stakeholders to make informed decisions.
Building open resources
Publish recommendations to help policymakers and other such stakeholders to make informed decisions
Contribute
Contribute towards similar initiatives around the world including the UN/UN-affiliated campaigns like 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL)
Meetings
Aug 9, 2019
Online
Inauguration of Marginalized Community Council
First meeting of the MCC members whether
Sep 7, 2019
Online
Monthly meeting (theme: Sustainable Development Goals)
Meeting notes (coming soon)
Meet our members
Moroccan Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Swedish, Berber
Anass Sedrati 🇲🇦
Representative of Wikimedia Morocco, Morocco, and interested for documentation of Berber language
Santali, Hindi, Odia
Suruchi Soren 🇮🇳
Designer with interest in indigenous literature, history and knowledge
Karbi, Assamese, Hindi, English
Dharamsing Teron 🇮🇳
Representative of Centre for Karbi Studies, Works for empowerment of marginalised indigenous people in protecting and promoting their culture, language and history.
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Eastern Tharu, Nepalese
Sanjib Chaudhary🇳🇵
Working on reviving and revitalising Eastern Tharu languages, digital activism in marginalised languages
Assamese, Bengali
Abhinash Das🇮🇳
Digital activist working for preservation and protect of endangered languages
Kusunda, Tharu
Uday Raj Aaley 🇳🇵
Independent researcher working for Kusunda, a language isolate and almost extinct language fro; Author of 2017 book ‘Kusunda Tribe and Dictionary’; Currently on a mission to teach Kusunda children for revitalising the language
Mundari, Kharia, Sadri
Dr. Walter Beck 🇮🇳
Expertise with over eight years in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Tribal Customary Law of Jharkhand, India; Interfaces with indigenous communities and government officials; Interested in preservation of intangible cultural heritage of marginalised Communities
Nepali, Kusunda, Hindi
Shishir Kandel 🇳🇵
Interested in growing Kusunda language resources and outreach
Mundari, Sadri
Dr. Subasi Barla 🇮🇳
Socio-Cultural Anthropologist working for 14 years, currently District Resource Person among marginalised communities—focuses on communities that are geographically isolated in the dense forest of Latehar, Jharkhand, India; Works for highlighting languages, cultures, education, economy and other issues of such communities
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Tharu, Nepalese
Indu Chaudhary 🇳🇵
Activist in indigenous movement initiatives—Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) and Tharu Writer Association. Currently a central committee member of Tharu Welfare Assembly and Tharu Journalist Association; Authors on relevant issues in newspapers and online news portals; Researched and authored a book ‘Muktik Dagar’.
Ho, Hindi
Mangu Purty 🇮🇳
Native speaker of Ho language— active on bringing digital platform, building the Ho Wikipedia, and other digital resources including fonts and input methods, and contributor community
Mundari, Birhor, Ho
Dr. Bikram Jora 🇮🇳
Researcher at Living Tongue Institute for Endangered Languages; working on digitising indigenous languages spoken in Jharkhand, India—added lexical items, mobile applications in pipeline.
Dotyali, Darchuleli, Baitadeli, Dadeldhuri and Nepali
Janak Raj Bhatta 🇳🇵
Native speaker of Doteli and active contributor to Doteli-language Wikipedia; works on language and dialect preservation; linguistic heritage and the lives of native speakers