Sailesh Patnaik Email & Phone Number

- Received Movement Communications Award for Community Engagement in 2021- Supporting the global EduWiki community by working closely with EduWiki leaders and other stakeholders- Helping increase capacity and build leadership skills through peer support programs (EduWiki Outreach Collaborators)- Helping organize affiliate collaboration spaces and map local resources- Produced inclusive and equitable community engagement strategy, recognised as a framework for other teams within the Wikimedia Foundation- Helped establish an organization-wide working group on community engagement, engaging with 50 staff to align on community engagement strategy- Helping in the implementation of structuring curricula data on Wikidata, providing technical expertise to the local team in Ghana, and supporting stakeholder engagement- Leading the Asian Roots Employee Resource Group, advocating for the well-being of Asian staff within the Wikimedia Foundation

Bhubaneswar

- Analysed archives and online documentation of the Education programs run or developed by Wikimedia volunteers and partners.- Conducted outreach and interviews to develop a comprehensive map of Wikimedia in education globally.

Bhubaneswar

The O Foundation is a nonprofit that uses digital technology in its core to make social innovations. With a focus on openness, diversity and inclusion, we are striving to transform the way millions of people have been accessing knowledge, and contributing to the knowledge commons. We ourselves being long time advocates and contributors to the Free/Libre and Open Source Software, and the Open Science movement, have been creating and bettering open source tools and educational resources that empower many marginalized grassroots communities—people with visual disability and illiteracy, speakers of indigenous/endangered languages, and people that have access to only low-end technology—to access the wealth of knowledge in their own language, preserve their native languages, and influence the narrative about themselves positively in a global scale. The Odia-language will be a focus language to begin with, but our work is going to be completely open and reproducible for others to build technology on the top of our work, and we will venture into more languages as the organization grows.

Bhubaneshwar Area, India

- Working along with the Odia Wikimedia Community, helped to form two city-based communities- Assisted in the writing work plan and submitting reports for Odia Focus Language Area as a part of the APG grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.- Partnered with seven government departments to release their content under a free license.- Collaborated with Media houses and Government institutions for digitisation drive, GLAM projects and edit-a-thons.

Bangalore , Bhubaneswar

*Working along with the Odia Wikimedia Community, helped to form two city based communities*Assisted in writing work plan and submit reports for Odia Focus Language Area as a part of APG grant from WMF.*Partnered with seven government departments to release their content under a free license.*Collaborated with Media houses and Government institutions for digitisation drive, GLAM projects and edit-a-thons.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Higher Secondary Education, Pcmb, 84.2%

Activities and Societies: Vice-Captain - Tagore House