Mission

The Open Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization in India. Its mission is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate cultural knowledge in the public domain or under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify that content freely. To address this, we collaborate with cultural organisations, and knowledge institutes to create and strengthen a network of champions for open knowledge.

Vision

To preserve and create accessibility to underrepresented cultural heritage digitally.

Objectives

  1. Promoting Open Access culture and Open Data.
  2. Advocating Open GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives ad Museums).
  3. Creating Open Education Resources.
  4. Documenting indigenous knowledge of the Global South.
  5. Developing opportunities for under-represented and marginalized communities for under-represented and marginalized communities.

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The Team

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Meet Our People

Our team is a mix of allies and volunteers who bring diverse skill sets and passions with the common goal of making the under-represented cultural resources accessible over the internet.

Meet our

Board of directors

Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar

Ushma Rani

Ushma Rani

Program Committee

Jay Prakash

Joy Agyepong

Isaac Chabota

Anass Sedrati

Tiven2240

Tiven2240

Advisors

Szymon Grabarczuk

Praveen Das

What People Say About Us

Testimonials

Feminism and Folklore project has added to the higher growth of Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. It helps us created new articles on Dagbani culture and also improved the already exiting ones.
Munkaila SulemanaVolunteer - Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
Feminism and Folklore project enriches our local Wikipedia with providing more knowledge to people.
malikaveeduVolunteer - Malayalam Wikimedian
I think coverage of folklore, especially folklore and women can be sparse, so its good to find ways to add to content, particularly in the UK where folk traditions are "less alive" than in other places.
lajmmooreWikimedia UK
Many folklore will be available in my language through Feminism and Folklore project. These will help my community learn about folklore.
Sangram Keshari SenapatiVolunteer - Odia Wikipedia
As a user interested in Asia, Feminism and Folklore project spurs me to add more pages about this topic and bring awareness to Asian culture in Italy
Chiyako92Volunteer - Italian Wikipedia

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The Open Heritage Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that seeks to encourage the development and distribution of free, multilingual content about intangible and tangible cultural heritage and to make it freely accessible to the public

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