Hidden Voices

Reducing gender data gap, one Wikipedia article at a time

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About Hidden Voices

Hidden Voices is an open source project by Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and SuperBloom Studios with the support of the IIT Madras Alumni Association, created to reduce the gender data gap in Wikipedia.

While there are multiple layers of complexity to resolve the nature of equitable representation across all digital platforms, it is an agreeable fact that there is significant value in increasing representation in Wikipedia.

Battling gender data gap

The gender data gap is a major barrier to more equitable solutions across domains. Hidden Voices addresses this gap and strives to build an inclusive internet.

AI assisted approach

Hidden Voices aims to develop information theoretical approaches, ML assisted auto identification and validation of external sources and textual analysis methods to auto-generate a first draft of Wikipedia-style biography for notable women in STEMM.

Completely Open Source

Hidden Voices advocates inclusivity through its idealogy and practices inclusivity by embracing Open Source principles. This project will be built by the community, for the community.

We welcome volunteers to contribute to Hidden Voices project. Please fill in the Volunteer Form to join our volunteer group.
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In the News

IIT-Madras alumni launch project to address gender representation in digital sources

The Hindu

The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras' Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI), SuperBloom Studios and the IIT-M Alumni Association (IITMAA) have together launched an initiative to reduce the gap in gender data in digital sources.

IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre launches project to reduce gender data gap in digital sources

BusinessLine

Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and SuperBloom Studios, a business consultancy firm, are launching ‘Hidden Voices’ to reduce the gender data gap in digital sources. Partnering with IITM Alumni Association this initiative is starting with Wikipedia.

IIT Madras’ Robert Bosch Centre partners with SuperBloom studios, launches ‘Hidden Voices’ initiative

Financial Express

Hidden Voices team has planned to start with generating biographies of women from North America and India who have notable contributions in STEM fields and tech-adjacent business domains.

IIT Madras Centre Launches Project To Reduce Gender Data Gap In Wikipedia

NDTV Education

Partnering with SuperBloom Studios and the IIT Madras Alumni Association, ‘Hidden Voices’ initiative aims to automatically generate biographies of several notable women to make a positive impact in gender representation among digital sources.