[Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

[Bishakha Datta]

Thanks, all. Thought I would just introduce myself a bit more.

Building on Michael (Snow's) email, for the last 12 years I have run Point
of View (www.pointofview,org), a Mumbai-based non-profit that puts the
voices and points of view of women in the public domain through media, art
and culture. We work on issues ranging from domestic violence, sex workers'
rights, gender and HIV - to enabling women in low-income communities to
access and use digital technologies (video, photo, net) to tell their own
stories and talk about their own realities.

Info-activism, specially via online platforms, is one of the issues that we
started working on a couple of years back. Our first foray into
info-activism was as one of the seeders of the Public Access Digital Media
Archive (http://pad.ma), which is built on open source software and
principles.

Apart from managing POV, I also make documentary videos on issues of gender
and sexuality, and am currently writing a non-fiction book on the lives of
sex workers in India. I also serve on the boards of many other non-profits
that work in the Global South, including CREA (www.creaworld.org) and
Breakthrough (www.breakthrough.tv) - and consult for foundations and
non-profits in India, the US, and parts of Africa.

Coming to Michael (Peel's) question about my prior involvement with
Wikipedia, I'm one of its millions of daily readers/users around the world.
I have yet to contribute enough by way of edits to call myself an editor.

Cheers - and really do look forward to contributing in more ways than one,
Bishakha








On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome aboard Bishaka,
>
> great to see a female activist and creator from Asia,
> I hope you enjoy your new role and feel comfortable in our community.
>
> Greetings warmly from Wikiquote,
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks, Michael and Ting.
> >
> > Look forward to this new adventure, to becoming part of the community -
> > and to meeting up soon.
> >
> > Yes, I did wonder whether you'll had noticed the POV-NPOV irony - but no
> > worries on that score.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Bishakha
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05-04-2010 14:06, Ting Chen wrote:
> >> Welcome Bishakha and looking forward to meet you soon in person.
> >>
> >> Ting
> >>
> >> Michael Snow wrote:
> >>
> >>> As many of you know, we have had one vacant seat left on the Wikimedia
> >>> Foundation Board of Trustees for the board to appoint. We have now
> >>> filled that seat by appointing Bishakha Datta, a journalist, filmmaker,
> >>> and nonprofit leader from India. In the course of finding Bishakha, we
> >>> met with a number of great people and had a lot of support going
> through
> >>> the process, and I want to thank everyone who participated.
> >>>
> >>> I hope everyone will warmly welcome Bishakha as part of our community.
> >>> By way of background, Bishakha runs a nonprofit based in Mumbai that
> >>> focuses on conveying women's perspectives in culture and the media. She
> >>> also has been involved in other international nonprofit work, and her
> >>> knowledge of India should be a great help to us as we move forward with
> >>> the strategic plan. In general, her experience will be a wonderful
> asset
> >>> and I think she is an ideal fit for the remaining board seat.
> >>>
> >>> In a bit of an ironic twist, Bishakha's organization is called Point of
> >>> View, but rest assured that she understands and endorses the neutral
> >>> point of view approach for Wikimedia projects. Her journalistic
> >>> background means she appreciates the value of an objective
> presentation,
> >>> and throughout our conversations with her it was clear that she
> supports
> >>> our mission and values.
> >>>
> >>> We will have an official press release in the next day or so with some
> >>> more information. I'm excited to be able to work with Bishakha, and I
> >>> know that she is looking forward to being involved as well.
> >>>
> >>> --Michael Snow
> >>>
> >>>
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