Anivar A. Aravind is the Executive Director Indic project, A Civil society initiative that aims to make computing and Internet accessible to non-English speakers of the Indian subcontinent . He is a well known Free Software/Culture Evangelist in South Asia. Anivar has a long track record of initiating, sustaining and running various Technical, Policy and Developer platforms and mobilizing people support and participation in such initiatives. Anivar has significant expertise on ICT public policy, Internet Governance, Open standards, Language technology, FOSS Licensing, Accessibility, and coordinating remote and scattered teams. He has substantial experience in mentoring many free and open source software projects and start-ups in social technology space to find their feet, assisting in various capacities from part- time adviser to chief technologist.