[Ncr-Python.in] Hack4change as a part of 16 days of activism

[Hemant Pandey]

Hi Noopur,

It's really a nice thought you have about women protection.
I will be supporting to your campaign.

Best Regards,
Hemant Pandey

On 11/28/13, Shobha Tyagi <tyagishobha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! Noopur,
>
> I am happy and strongly support your campaign for violence against
> women. This is very good step and hope would be fruitful in the
> direction to the women welfare.
> also, would be a great tribute to the unfortunate brave lady who lost
> her life as a rape victim last year.
>
> regards,
> Shobha
>
>
>
>
> On 11/28/13, Noopur <noopur.raval at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> *Breakthrough*, a global human rights organisation that runs campaigns
>> such
>> as Bell Bajao (Ring the Bell), is organising a Wikipedia edit-a-thon for
>> creating and expanding articles on violence against women on Sunday,
>> December 8, 2013 at Delhi.
>>
>> Deets: http://hack4changedelhi.wordpress.com/
>>
>> I am writing to you to share more about the hackathon that we at
>> Breakthrough are planning to organise a hackathon on the theme of
>> violence
>> against women.
>>
>> We'll be calling people from various backgrounds including journalists,
>> developers, researchers, storytellers, activists and other members of
>> civil
>> society to take part in this event. Participants will be divided into
>> different groups and they'll work on different projects. We encourage
>> remote participation as a mark of solidarity and an effort to expand the
>> movement!
>>
>> Along with data visualisations, we also are planning a Wikipedia
>> edit-a-thon.
>>
>> I will be leading the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Here's the Idea behind this
>> session:
>>
>> A crucial problem with several Wikipedia articles on sexual violence
>> incidents (especially in the Indian context) is that often there are no
>> articles (or articles have been deleted) and also articles that match
>> encyclopedic standards but fail to articulate the politics of writing
>> about
>> sexual violence itself. These articles may also not use vocabulary that
>> represents rape survivors without victimizing them. This session proposes
>> to make the act of editing Wikipedia a political one, therefore
>> reclaiming
>> it as a tool to fight violence, slut shaming and gender stereotyping.
>>
>> There is also a hackathon running parallel where we hope to build tools
>> or
>> customize them in the direction of women's safety!
>>
>> Hope you will join us in it :)
>>
>> Best,
>> Noopur
>>
>> --
>> Noopur Raval
>> Student
>> Arts and Aesthetics
>> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
>>
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hemant pandey