WikiProject:United Nations/UNESCO/Workshop/India/New Delhi

Gender Bridging Workshop

11:00am.–16:00 p.m.
08 March 2019

english	deutsch
esperanto	français
italiano	polski

To celebrate the women's day UNESCO in collaboration with Wikimedians of India is hosting a one-day Wikipedia editing workshop.

Date

Date: : Friday, 2019 March 08, 11:00 AM - 16:00, Indian Standard Time

Venue

Meeting Point

UNESCO Delhi Office

1, San Martin Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, Delhi 110021 Google Maps

Agenda

Bridging the gender gap on Wikipedia by creating biographies on Women.

Intended Audience

This is an in-house UNESCO event where Women Wikimedians selected for WTTT 2019 will act as Resource Person to train the intended audience invited by UNESCO.

Trainers/ Resource Person


Wikimedian	Language/Community or Organization
Sumita Roy	Bengali
Wikilover90	English
Shweta	Hindi
Dhanlakshmi K.T.	Kannada
Saranya Bhumi	Malayalam
~~Aarya Joshi~~ (Unable to Attend)	Marathi
Chinmayee Mishra	Odia
~~Nitesh Gill~~ (Unable to Attend)	Punjabi
~~Singo Hembram~~ (Unable to Attend)	Santali
Parvathisri	Tamil
Suswetha	Telugu
Durga Bhat	Tulu
Nilam Karn	Maithili
Sujata	Bengali
Saumya Naidu	(CIS Representative)
K.N. Medini	(CIS Representative)
Sailesh	Facilitator
Abhinav	Facilitator
Manavpreet Kaur	Facilitator
Japleen Pasricha	Feminism in India
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Kalyani	Marathi
PMSarangi	Odia

List of Articles

Women Scientists

NAME	STATUS
Bindu A Bambah
B Vijayalakshmi
Shubhada Chiplunkar
Deepti Deobagkar
Srubabati Goswami
R J Hans-Gill/ Hans-Gill Rajinder Jeet
P Mohanty Hejmadi
H Ilah (nee' Bhatnagar)
Sangeeta N Kale
V Kalpagam
Priyadarshini Karve
S K Khanduja
Pushpa Khare
Medha Khole
Kusum Marathe
Minnie M Mathan
Asha Mathur
Anuradha Misra
Anjali Mookerjee
Indira Narayanaswamy
Chanda Nimbkar
Sulabha Pathak
Hema Ramachandran
Sheela K Ramasesha
Sumathi Rao
S Sandhyamani
Chitra Sarkar
G V Satyavati
H S Savithri
Riddhi Shah
Supurna Sinha
Satyavati M Sirsat
Sarala K Subbarao
S Annapurni
Sumati Surya
N. Valarmathi
Tessy Thomas

Lóreal UNESCO Laureate

NAME	COUNTRY	YEAR	STATUS
Susanna Phoboo	Nepal	2008
Hasina Akhter	Bangladesh	2002
Ruchi Singh	India	2006
Yean Yean Chan	Malaysia	2009
Antima Gupta	India	2010
Yifen Tan	Malaysia	2010
Marissa Teo	Singapore	2010
Patricia Miang Lon Ng	Singapore	2012
Kanika Mitra	Bangladesh	2013

Stree Shakti Science Samman Awardees

NAME	YEAR	STATUS
Usha Bhosle	2010
Telma B. K.	2012
Dr. Jaya S. Tyagi	2012

Women Fellows of TWAS

NAME	YEAR	STATUS
Asha Mathur	2000
Anand Ashima	2003
Buti Bimla	1990
Kanchan Chopra
Kasturi Datta

Notable Women from Sri Lanka

NAME	STATUS
Preethi Gunaratne
Asha de Vos
Y I Nilmini Silva Gunawardene
Aresha Manamperi
Anuja Dharmaratne
Dilhara Edirisinghe
Janakie Saparamadu
Ayanthi N Navaratne
D C K Illeperuma
Shiroma Weerathunge
Buddhima Subasinghe
Lakmini Wijesundera
Vidumini Ranasinghe
Nayeni Fernando

Media Persons

NAME	AREA OF EXPERTISE	STATUS
Pooja Sood
Geeeta Sheshu	Independent Journalist
Chinmayi Arun	Fellow Cybersecurity and AI
Ammu Joseph
PN Vasant	Director-General, Centre for Media Studies
Venu Arora	ED, Ideoaync Media Combine
Archana Kapoor	Founder and Director, SMART and Director, Radio Mewat
Nupur Basu	Managing Trustee, IAWRT India
Laxmi Murthy	Independent Journalist and Member, Network for women in media in India
Nandani Sahai	Director, Media Information and Communication Centre of India
Sohaila Kapur	Independent journalist, writer, theatre actor and director

Miscellaneous

Name	Status
Bhaswati Mukerjee
Arti Dogra
Chandni Joshi
Kousalya Periasamy

Culture/Arts

Name	Background	Country	Status
Neha Kirpal	Founder, India Art Fair	India
Pooja Sood	Founder-Director, Khoj International Artists Association, and Director-General, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur	India
Shilpa Sharma	Founder, jaypore.com, which is a leading online company for retail of Indian handicrafts	India
Durga Bai Vyom	Famous Gond painter who has exhibited even internationally. Gond is a tribe in Madhya Pradesh and Gond paintings are known across India and internationally and have evolved with contemporary times	India
Judy Frater	Founder, Kala Raksha Vidyalaya, first ever design school for artisans in India in Kutch, and Founder, Somaiya Kala Vidyalaya that is focused on teaching management skills to young artisans. She is perhaps not Indian but has dedicated more than 25 years of her life to working for Indian artisans.	Has been living in India for more than 25 years. From USA.
Ruwanthi de Chickera	Theatre artist, well represented on the web with reviews and newspaper articles	Sri Lanka
Janani Cooray	Painter, installation artist, performance artist; well-represented on the web	Sri Lanka
Nisansala Karunaratne	Visual artist, Gallery owner (Gallery Casa Serena); well-represented on the web.	Sri Lanka
Kaushalya Fernando	Theatre artist, and film and television actress; well-represented on the web.	Sri Lanka
Upeka Chitrasena	Dancer and dance teacher; daughter of the well-known dance-teacher duo Chitrasena and Vajira who pioneered the introduction of Sri Lankan ballet in the 1950's.	Sri Lanka
Anoli Perera	Contemporary Visual Artist	Sri Lanka

Articles For Translations

Women In Science

Photos

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More articles can be found here- Wikipedia:UNESCO Workshop (2019 New Delhi) Lists

Contact Persons and Facilitators

For further queries you may write us at dr.manavpreetkaur@gmail.com, sailesh.patnaik007@gmail.com and abhinav619@gmail.com