Frederick Noronha
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Frederick Noronha (b 1963 in Brazil) is an independent journalist based in Saligao, Goa, India. He is active in cyberspace and involved with a number of e-ventures involving Goa, developmental concerns and free software. He writes mostly on Free and Open Source Software issues, technology, and computing issues in India. He is co-founder of BytesForAll.
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[edit] Journalism
He is an alumnus of the Internationales Institut fur Journalismus (G57 course, 1990), and a full-time journalist since 1983. He has been freelancing since end-1994. He also received a scholarship from Fojo, Sweden (1998) and was a Sarai Print Media Fellow (2001).
From the mid-1990s, he has written for India Abroad News Service (currently Indo-Asian News Service), on news related to Goa and, more recently, Information Technology. His articles have been published in the media -- in Goa, India, the digital world and some overseas publications.
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.
[edit] Online ventures
Together with Partha Pratim Sarkar of Bangladesh, Noronha co-founded BytesForAll, and started IndiaLists.org, an initiative to promote content-relevant mailing lists in India.
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 6000+ photographs, mainly related available to Goa, are available for download at his flickr page.
[edit] Involvement with FOSS movement
Noronha is a supporter of FOSS, and is actively involved in chronicling its growth in India and some other Asian countries. He has written and posted to the networks of Free Software Foundation, India and GNU/Linux groups in India. 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 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
