

He has a deep understanding of the Internet ecosystem and standardisation process and actively engages with Internet Governance and various digital rights campaigns.ī. Read writing from Anivar Aravind on Medium. Anivar has a long track record of initiating, sustaining, and running various technical, policy, and developer platforms and mobilizing people's support and participation in such initiatives. He was an ICANN57 Fellow and part of Neo Brahmi IDN Label Generation Panel. ICANN and Internet Governance ParticipationĪnivar is engaging with NCUC from 2009 onwards and representing Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC), in APRALO, NCSG & NPOC.
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He is a Mozilla Rep and contributing member of Software in Public Interest(SPI), Python Software Foundation(PSF) &The Document Foundation(TDF) Over the years he helped in building and sustaining FOSS language technology communities like Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) in India, Initiated successful advocacy efforts on ICT public policy Improvements, and contributed to the launch and maintenance of many thematic and regional networks & conferences.

He is an advisory board member of Software Freedom Law Centre India.Īnivar has taken a leadership role in free Software and free Knowledge communities of scale, like Mozilla, Libreoffice, & Wikipedia. Anivar’s passion is in the intersection of technology, policy, and law from the perspective of human rights & software freedom. He is a software engineering executive, mentor, and strategist with 12+ years of progressive experience in mentoring many free and open-source software projects and start-ups in the social technology space to find their feet, assisting in various capacities. Aravind is Founder Executive Director of Indic Project, a civic-tech non-profit initiative that works on language engineering, technology standards, and digital rights of native language users.
