Our work in Nagaland.
Open Archive, working with community linguists on endangered languages.
9
Villages
2023
Working here since
2
Programme areas
What we run in Nagaland.
2 of the 15 Foundation programmes run here, chosen with the district administration and the panchayats we work through.
Arts & heritageArts, culture and heritageDocumenting languages and crafts that are disappearing, and paying the people who still hold them.Read the programme
Digital inclusionDigital inclusion and connectivityInternet access, devices and the confidence to use them - for schools, health centres and households that the network reached last.Read the programme
What the work involves.
Who this is for
Practitioners of endangered crafts, languages and performance traditions, and their communities.
- 01
Language documentation
Recording and archiving endangered languages with community linguists, rights retained locally.
- 02
Craft apprenticeships
Paid apprenticeships so a master practitioner can afford to train a successor.
- 03
Digital archives
Properly hosted, catalogued and backed-up archives, publicly accessible.
- 04
Performance support
Venues, travel and fees for traditional performers, particularly outside festival season.
- 05
School heritage projects
Students documenting their own village's crafts, songs and history.
Named projects in this state.
Pilot · since 2023Open Archive
Recording endangered languages and crafts properly, with rights kept by the communities they came from.
- 11
- Languages
- 18,000
- Archive items
- 240
- Apprenticeships
- Open
- Default access
Fund a district in Nagaland.
CSR spend is often tied to a geography. If yours is tied to this state, we can propose a scope, a budget and a reporting schedule within a week.
