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Frederick Noronha (b 1963 in Brazil) is an independent journalist based in Goa, India, who is active in cyberspace and involved with a number of e-ventures involving Goa, developmental concerns and Free Software.
Current and past links Alumni of Internationales Institut fur Journalismus (G57 course, 1990), and a full-time journalist since 1983, he has been freelancing since end-1994. He received scholarship from Fojo, Sweden (1998) and Sarai Print Media Fellow (2001). He has also participated in a study on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the 'developing' countries (2003-04) in Finland, and has been a member of the panel deciding on the Free Software Award. Interests He is involved in the Indian Free Software Foundation and GNU/Linux groups in India. He is also a known for his articles on Goa, media issues, books from Goa, the Goan community, environmental issues, development and information technology. From 1996 to 2006, he has been part of the Admin Team of Goanet, a volunteer and not-for-profit network that links the Goan diaspora community. Journalism From the mid-nineties, he has also written for India Abroad News Service (currently Indo-Asian News Service), on news related to Goa and, more recently, information technology. Together with Partha Pratim Sarkar of Bangladesh, he is a co-founder of BytesForAll, and started IndiaLists.org, an initiative to promote content-relevant mailing lists in India. He lives in the village of Saligao, in Goa. His articles have been published in the media -- in Goa, India, the digital world and some overseas publications. He is also involved in running the Docuwallahs2 mailing list, a network that connects a number of Indian alternative documentary film-makers. A supporter of copyleft-based models for sharing digital information and resources, some 5000+ photographs, mainly related available to Goa, are avilable for download at his flickr page. Mailing lists set up by Frederick Noronha | ||||||||
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