T. B. Dinesh Explained

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T. B. Dinesh is an Indian computer scientist and media activist. He started his research with generating software based on algebraic specification and later focused on web 2.0, web accessibility, web annotation, hypermedia and mesh networking.[1] [2] In 1999, he co-founded the Pagelets project. In 2002, he founded [Janastu.org Janastu] in Bangalore, a non-profit where he serves as technical director, and a company called Servelots. Both serve non-profits with free and open-source software and developing ways for re-narration of the web with web accessibility for the print-impaired.[3] He has studied and built community-based digital tools such as SWeeT Web, Alipi, Pantoto, CoLRN[4] and Papad.[5]

Life and career

Dinesh was born in Tumkur. He studied electronics and communication engineering. Dinesh studied mathematics and computer science at University of Iowa for his postgraduate program. He finished his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 1992,[6] researching on generating software based on algebraic expression. He later continued his post-doctoral research at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica where he had earlier worked for a doctoral project.[7] He then worked at the Stanford Research Institute, where he co-founded the Pagelets project in 1999 along with Susan Uskudarli and Lambert Meertens.[8] He moved to Bangalore in 2002 and built a participatory information resource creation and management system called Pantoto[9] and founded Janastu in 2002.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Accessibility for the Print-impaired (ALipi) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130119051354/http://isif.asia/theme/default/files/ISIFGrants2010-TechnicalReport_Servelots.pdf . 19 Jan 2013 . 2023-07-15 . Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) Asia.
  2. Book: Clarke, Loraine . Learning to speak to an elephant and other stories of decentralised digital futures . George . Babitha . Raj . Romit . Rogers . Jon . Singh . Neha . Skelly . Martin . Thomas . Peter . 2021 . University of Dundee . Brand Mavericks, India; Pressision, UK.
  3. SIRCA Annual Report 2010-2011 . 11 April 2011 . Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University . Singapore . 19 July 2023.
  4. CoLRN: A community-based vision for local resilient networks . Densmore . Melissa . 24 November 2022 . International Telecommunication Union (ITU) . 19 July 2023.
  5. Web site: McKelvey . Karissa . 2020-06-22 . Renarration and }}: T B Dinesh on Localized Knowledge in Rural India ]. 2023-07-15 . Digital Democracy . en-US.
  6. IDRC Small Grants Program for ICTD Research Capacity Building. Strengthening ICTD Research Capacity in Asia (SIRCA) . Hwa . Ang Peng . Arul I. . Chib . 31 December 2011 . The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) . 19 July 2023.
  7. Dinesh . T.B. . Haveraaen . Magne . Heering . Jan . 2000 . An Algebraic Programming Style for Numerical Software and Its Optimization . Scientific Programming . 8 . 4 . 247–259 . 10.1155/2000/494281 . 1058-9244. free . cs/9903002 .
  8. Web site: 2002-08-14 . The Team @ PANTOTO . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20020814080347/http://pagelets.com/012.htm . 14 Aug 2002 . 2023-07-15 . PANTOTO Communities.
  9. Pantoto: A participatory model for community information . Uskudarli . Susan . T. B. . Dinesh . 15 July 2023.
  10. Book: Governance of rural information and communication technologies: opportunities and challenges . 2009 . Academic Foundation . 978-81-7188-599-2 . Mishra . Harekrishna . 1. publ . New Delhi . Institute of Rural Management.

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