Manoj Karingamadathil

Manoj Karingamadathil

Manoj is a free software evangelist who promotes tools to make efforts to help with causes such as humanitarian efforts and nature conservation. Manoj is a firm believer in research data being open access for greater transparency in the world of scientific research and software. In addition to his contributions to the FOSS world, he has hosted workshops within many colleges in Kerala in relation to conservation, and geographical mapping with open source tools OpenStreetMap with newly collected data. Furthermore, Manoj manages opendatakerala.org, which hosts a variety of datasets related to medical data such as diseases within the state of Kerala and digitised information about panchayats in Kerala. He is involved with organizations such as Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and the Sahya Digital Conservation Foundation.