Subhashish Panigrahi

Subhashish Panigrahi is a researcher and documentary filmmaker. He has also been a long-term advocate of open knowledge/culture. Most of his filmography and new media works are on issues related to the neo-colonization of the web and marginalized communities. He has a background as a community manager in international NGOs that are working for the open internet. Panigrahi founded OpenSpeaks, a project for documenting languages, and co-founded O Foundation. He is a former National Geographic grantee and 2017 National Geographic Explorer. As a Digital Identity Fellow at Yoti, he led the production of Marginalized Aadhaar, a documentary on Indian bio-metric identity Aadhaar and the exclusion of marginalized communities. His documentary "Gyani Maiya" features late Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda, the most fluent speaker of the Kusunda language of Nepal that is now down to one fluent native speaker. His other documentaries are about and in the Remosam (Bonda), Ho, and Gutob languages - all indigenous languages of India.