Namita, India
Namita is part of Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – is a Mumbai-based online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non-commercial use. She will be moderating the group discussion.
Shubhranshu,India
Shubranshu Choudhary is a Knight International Journalism Fellow and the founder of CGNet Swara, a voice-based portal, freely accessible via mobile phone, that allows anyon to report and listen to stories of local interest. Reported stories are moderated by journalists and become available for playback online as well as over the phone
Adrianna, Singapore
Culture Kitchen from Singapore uses food as a political starting point. They call upon people to organize dinners with migrant workers and foreign people living in Singapore. The focus of the dinners, culinary as well as otherwise is always a different marginalized foreign group living in Singapore. The goal is to increase visibility and cultural exchange
Parmesh, India
Parmesh Shahani, listed in 2012 as one of 25 Indians to watch out for by Financial Times, is the head of the Godrej India Culture Lab – an experimental idea-space that cross–pollinates the best ideas and people working on India from across the academic, creative and corporate worlds to explore what it means to be modern and Indian. In addition, Parmesh also serves as the Editor-at-large for Verve magazine, India. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a TED Fellow, an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, and a Utrecht University-Impakt Fellow.
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