Swecha Telangana

🚀 Call for Volunteers – DevDays Hyderabad We're inviting volunteers to join us in planning and organizing our upcoming community activities. Whether you're a student, professional, or technology enthusiast, you're welcome to join us. No prior volunteering experience is needed—just bring your enthusiasm, share your ideas, and help build the community together. 📅 Sunday, 12 July 2026 🕙 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM 📍 Swecha Office, Gachibowli, Hyderabad Join us to brainstorm ideas for upcoming events, form volunteer teams, take up responsibilities, and kickstart our upcoming activities together. 🎟️ Register: https://lnkd.in/dgWnnqyk Help us grow the DevDays Hyderabad community by sharing this invitation with your network and anyone passionate about technology and open source. #DevDaysHyd #FOSS #OpenSource

📢 DevSprint by Swecha! We are excited to announce the next session of DevSprint, a collaborative hackathon where your code meets real-world impact. Build technology with purpose alongside a community of seasoned and upcoming developers. Contribute to projects that serve communities while sharpening your skills through peer reviews. 🔗 Register at https://lnkd.in/gAxDc_2E 🗓️ 5 July 2026 | 10:00 AM onwards 📍 Jiva Infotech, Hi-tec City https://lnkd.in/dXYE5cXF Projects in Focus 1. Medical Camp (HealthTech) - Digitising and optimising the operations of Swecha's Medical Camp, a community healthcare initiative that has provided 22,000+ free medical consultations to date. - Frontend: React | Backend: FastAPI - Source code: https://lnkd.in/d6JMwy-q 2. Indic Corpus Application - Part of #MissionIndianLLMs initiative to Build Indic LLMs - Frontend: React | Backend: FastAPI    - Source Code: https://lnkd.in/dZ5xu3Hi    - Explore at https://corpus.swecha.org and https://lnkd.in/g3aTCUSa ...and many more Sign up today and build technology that matters! #Code4Change #BuildWithSwecha #DevSprintsHyd #DevDaysHyd

🎉 Launching VISWAM’s Summer of AI Internship 2026! VISWAM.AI, the Center of Excellence on AI for the Global South, a joint initiative by Swecha and IIIT Hyderabad is dedicated to building impactful Artificial Intelligence solutions for the Global South, pioneering with the development of a Telugu Large Language Model. As part of this mission, we are actively working on creating large-scale Telugu language corpora to support AI research and applications. The Summer of AI Internship 2026 continues this effort by focusing on dataset creation, refinement, and hands-on training in the complete AI Development Lifecycle. We are excited to announce that the first cohort of 600+ pre-university students from RGUKT Nuzvid has joined this 2-month internship program with VISWAM.AI. During the internship, students will gain practical exposure to various stages of AI development while contributing to meaningful open AI initiatives. The inaugural session was successfully held today, marking the beginning of the interns’ journey in learning, contribution, and innovation toward building the Telugu LLM. Prof. SSSV Gopala Raju UDAYA KUMAR AMBATI Chaitanya Chokkareddy srujana bodapati Kiran Chandra Ramesh Loganathan Manish Srivastava Ranjith Raj Vasam Rajasekhar Ponakala Praveen Gorla, Ph.D. Gourinath Reddy B Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge #VISWAMAI #Swecha #IIITH #Internship #SOAI2026 #RGUKT

We Invite you to Join the 50th Free Medical Camp by Swecha Telangana Swecha Telangana has served 26,000+ consultations, conducted 5400+ free lab tests, distributed 4000+ spectacles, and performed 50+ eye surgeries — all completely free. This is only possible because of our incredible doctors, volunteers, and donors who believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Come be part of this journey! We offer: ✅ Free Consultations  ✅ Free Diagnostic  ✅ Free Medicines Everyone is welcome! 📍 Venue: Swecha Office | Free and Open Source Community , Gachibowli, Hyderabad 📅 Date: April 5th, 2026  ⏰ Time: 6:00 AM – 12:00 PM IST #FreeMedicalCamp #Swecha #Hyderabad #HealthForAll #CommunityService

Join Us !!! BUILD FOR INDIA Hackathon India’s cities and communities are filled with untapped opportunities, yet much of this ecosystem remains fragmented and under-digitised. This hackathon invites developers, designers, builders, and anyone interested in AI-assisted creation to build solutions that connect people, services, and businesses. Using open-source AI tools, participants will explore how technology can make everyday opportunities easier to discover, organize, and grow. 📍 Venue: Mondee Tech Pvt Ltd, Madhapur, Hyderabad 📅 Dates: 14–15 March ⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Open to all – experienced devs or curious builders!

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐞-𝐇𝐑𝐒: 𝐀 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫-𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 What began as a Free Monthly Medical initiative has evolved into a structured, technology-enabled care delivery model operating through our eHRS (Electronic Health Record System). For the past 48 months, Swecha has organized Free Medical Camps in Hyderabad to ensure accessible healthcare reaches people living in slums, working-class families, daily wage labourers, and senior citizens without family support. With the support of dedicated doctors and hundreds of committed volunteers, this initiative has delivered over 21,000 medical consultations to date. Thousands have further benefited from free health check-ups, distribution of essential generic medicines, provision of eyeglasses, and facilitation of cataract surgeries — ensuring both preventive and corrective care reach underserved communities. As patient volumes increased, it became evident that scale demanded structure. We therefore built a dedicated eHRS platform to bring transparency, efficiency, and accountability to the entire workflow. Our eHRS digitally integrates patient registration, vitals recording, doctor consultations, prescription management, and generic medicine disbursement — significantly improving operational efficiency, data traceability, queue management, and inventory control. Real-time doctor allocation, unique digital patient identifiers, smart generic medicine stock management, and instant analytics now enable us to plan and deliver care more effectively. This milestone reflects more than continuity; it represents the strength of system-oriented healthcare delivery. By combining disciplined processes with open technology, we are demonstrating how scalable and transparent healthcare infrastructure can be built at the grassroots level. As we move forward, we invite developers, designers, system architects, healthcare professionals, and open-source contributors to collaborate with us in strengthening and expanding our eHRS platform. We invite all the students, developers, researchers and professionals to contribute our Free and Open Source Health Tech Solution. e-HRS is a Free and Open Source (AGPLv3 License) Application Frontend: https://lnkd.in/gq_eMay6 Backend: https://lnkd.in/g_5tnYr3 Together, we can architect accessible healthcare infrastructure for communities that need it most. Care. Community. Code. #OpenSource #TechnologyForSociety #FreeSoftware #eHRS #Healthcare

Our Corpus Applications are now localized in Telugu, Hindi, English, marking our contribution to the broader Indic l10n (localization) project, and making it easier for native speakers to contribute directly in their own language. 👉🏽Access our Corpus collection web app at https://corpus.swecha.org 👉🏽Download Andriod App at https://lnkd.in/g4wjuT-4

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, we would like to share an update from our Telugu AI efforts. Our Corpus Applications are now localized in Telugu, marking our contribution to the broader Indic l10n (localisation) project, and making it easier for native speakers to contribute directly in their own language. As you know, building strong Telugu AI systems and Indic language technologies fundamentally depends on high-quality, community-driven cultural corpus contributions. Through this platform, we have enabled a structured collection of datasets: Text, Speech, Video, and Images. We call upon all Telugu language enthusiasts to actively contribute to the corpus and help strengthen our digital language ecosystem. 👉🏽Access our Corpus collection web app at https://corpus.swecha.org 👉🏽Download Andriod App at https://lnkd.in/g4wjuT-4

Congratulations Dr. Kumarasamy Thangaraj for the prestigious Padma Shri Award 2026! For us, Dr. Thangaraj holds a special place for contributions to science and society! He pioneered the Coastal Migration Theory that traced the first modern human migration out of Africa through the southern coastal route through India to the Andaman region approximately 65,000 years ago.His research demonstrated that the Indian population descends from two major ancestral groups: Ancestral South Indians (ASI) and Ancestral North Indians (ANI).We are proud for having him as Keynote speaker at the first AI Days Conference in 2024.Inaugurating the Healthcare track, he shared valuable insights on managing and interpreting large-scale datasets in his talk titled “Genomics Data:Past,Present, and Future Challenges”.An inspirational talk that reflected upon his vast experience in large human genome sequencing projects.Dr. Thangaraj as students and colleagues fondly call him is widely recognised for his outstanding contributions as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and as the Director of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD). However, what marks his distinction is his openness and being accessible. He welcomed collaborations with open arms with any university faculty in the country and notably he provided opportunity and accepted students from towns or rural regions. He nurtured them and made them successful.   His pioneering work in Indian population genomics has significantly advanced the understanding of the origins of the present-day Indian population. He analysed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) for population studies, as it is maternally inherited, does not undergo recombination, which creates unique mutations that help distinguish closely related yet distinct populations. Leveraging these advantages, he used mitochondrial DNA to trace maternal lineages, enabling the reconstruction of population migration patterns and the assessment of genetic diversity over time. His proposed Coastal Migration Theory is based on these studies.Dr. Thangaraj’s work revealed how strict endogamy in India has led to population-specific recessive diseases, identifying key biomarkers including those linked to sudden cardiac arrest (cardiomyopathy). Through over 200 research publications, he demonstrated that Indian populations carry unique disease-specific mutations and SNPs, strongly reinforcing the need for India-focused genomic research to understand population-specific genetic variations.At a time when much research in premier institutions is shaped by Global North priorities, Dr. Thangaraj stood apart with his unwavering focus on problems rooted in the Indian context. His Padma Shri recognition is a powerful affirmation for scientists committed to solving India’s challenges. An inspiration to many, congratulations, Dr. Thangaraj! Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology BRIC - Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD)