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## About Uli

The lines between online and offline life are fast splintering. Online gender-based violence against gender and sexual minorities and misogyny results in offline harm and results in people receding from online spaces. Uli (meaning chisel in Tamil) is our attempt to hand the chisel and power over to users most affected by online gender-based violence. Uli aims to build and demand for responsibity and inclusivity in the systems that shape our online life.

Uli was born from the collective labour of journalists, activists, community influencers, and writers engaged in the struggle against the interwoven caste, religion, gender and sexuality-based violence both online and offline. They contributed towards the development of the Uli tool that allows us to filter out offensive words/phrases, archive problematic content and call out for support. Uli is not imagined as the final product, but rather a simple tool, a chisel, that allows one to make a room of one’s own or courtyards where people can come together, share stories, and reflect on the future we all want to see.

In its second year, Uli is evolving as a user-facing tool; as well as a set of resources that researchers, Trust and Safety teams and professionals, and journalists can use in their workflows.

### (Uli in Media)[../uli_media.mdx]


## The Team
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The current project team is comprised of:


* **Denny George** : Engineering lead, [denntenna](https://denntenna.github.io/),
* **Siddharth Manohar**: Data Governance Researcher,
* **Sudeep Duggal** : Fullstack engineer,
* **Tarunima Prabhakar** : Project Manager, [website](https://tarunima.com),
* **Yash Budhwar** : Operations and contracts,
* **Yohan Mathew** : ML DevOps


Advisors/ Volunteers:
* **Ambika Tandon** : Overall Project,
* **Arnav Arora** : Data Science, [@rnav_arora](https://twitter.com/rnav_arora),
* **Cheshta Arora** : Researcher,
* **Kaustubha Kalidindi** : Community Building,


For our work in 2023 we have partnered with four stellar organizations:
1. Chambal Media Private Limited [(Khabar Lahariya)](https://khabarlahariya.org/about-us/)
2. [Point of View](https://pointofview.org/)
3. [Nazariya: Queer Feminist Resource Group](https://thenazariyafoundation.org/)
4. [Feminism in India](https://feminisminindia.com/) (FII)


## Supporters
Uli development was supported by Mozilla Foundation's 2023 [Data Futures Lab Cohort](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-welcomes-2023-data-futures-lab-cohort/). It was also a part of GitHub's [DPG Open Source Community Manager program](https://socialimpact.github.com/tech-for-social-good/dpg-open-source-community-manager-program). The pilot stage was supported by the Digital Society Challenge grant provided to the Centre for Internet and Society.

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