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

[Shobha Tyagi]

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
>