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Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran

Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran

Founder - Women In Tech collectives, Program Manager- Coko Foundation, Mozillian/Wikimedian

Salem, India

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Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran is a Socio-tech Researcher and founder of Women In Tech collectives, India, she is also Internationally recognised as a Mozillian, Wikimedian, and VRAR/ multidimensional space enthusiast. She is one of the recipients of the ShuttleWorth Flash Grant awards 2021. Bhuvana initiated the Women In Tech community in India to enable more voices of women who are interested in pursuing a career in tech or want to learn tech and to give opportunities for those who lost their careers in tech due to the pandemic. As part of this initiative, she has joined hands with Coko Foundation where the organisation has collaborated to support the members of the community in furthering their careers and interest in advance technologies. She is the cofounder of EmergeAbility, an initiative to make the digital world inclusive and accessible. She has also facilitated global events like MozFest, and Hack4OpenGLAM. She had been a mentor at Creep-a-thon hosted by Codam college, Amsterdam. She was one among the International Jury panel for the Wikipedia Pages wanting Photos campaign 2021.
Bhuvana being curious to reach the global technologies and communities so she collaborated with the CityJS London team and initiated its first ever World series version in the steel city of India, Salem. She is the founder and lead the team of CityJS India 2022 with an intention connect developers and technology enthusiasts from India and all around the world. She also balances her life by pursuing performing arts, she has received Merit certificates from Annamalai University and Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London for her notable participation in Bharatnatyam and Kathak dance forms.
To add feathers to her cap she has been conferred with two major awards :-
* Best Poster Presentation Award by the Ministry of Science and Technology at the “India International Science Festival 2016”, New Delhi. 

* Dr. Kalam Young Achiever’s Award by the World Youth Federation on 15th Oct, 2016 at Anna University, Chennai.  

As part of her CSR efforts, she has launched the DEWI (Develop and Empower Women Interests in tech) program under the Women In Tech collectives, India initiative. In this program top giant tech companies have associated to offer mentorship and training programs for women trainers and women students. The DEWI will also cater internships and career opportunities for the trained candidates across modern industrial expectations.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Arts
  • Business & Management
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • Accessibility and Mental Health
  • UX / Accessibility
  • Digital Accessibility
  • Women in Tech
  • Women in Technology
  • Women in Leadership
  • Augmented Reality
  • multidimensional spaces
  • Web Accessibility

Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran

Founder - Women In Tech collectives, Program Manager- Coko Foundation, Mozillian/Wikimedian

Salem, India

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