How The Mumkin App Is Revolutionising Feminist Technology
It is a morning full of excitement for Priya Goswami and the entire team at Mumkin, they have been declared winners of the PassionFund Gold Winner by Linktree. I am excitedly waiting in front of my screen for an interview with my Sony voice recorder. I logged in a few minutes early, excited to know more about Mumkin and also about Priya and her journey from a filmmaker to a tech-creator.
Priya Goswami is the CEO and the creator of the Mumkin app, it is an AI-driven app that creates stimulations for the users to have “real-life conversations on gender, culture, and society.” Priya Goswami is a true communicator, in every sense of the word. In my interactions with her leading to the interview, I have been awed by the manner she communicates and facilitates communication, how careful she is to choose words and use them in describing situations and emotions. This very trait tells us about the creation of Mumkin, the app and their androgynous octopus which serves as their mascot.
Mumkin’s journey
As a feminist, I have always been very suspicious of technology—the manner in which each technology is gendered under the garb of neutrality usually created and designed—in the Global North. The technology that we interact with on a daily basis was not created keeping in mind the marginalised and the underprivileged. It is another story of how we have started to use the technology according to our own needs, be it use of Twitter or other social media platforms to generate funds for education, or start conversations on obscured issues through the medium of technology, which is empowering communities and movements as it helps garner transnational support.
As a feminist creator, Priya Goswami understands the need for community building and uses technology for empowerment. Mumkin app enables difficult conversations, commits to empowering communities and also individuals. The current pilot version hosts several conversations on Female Genital Cutting or Khatna in Asian communities. They have AI-driven conversations that simulate real-life scenarios that help the conversant to initiate conversations on difficult themes. Priya Goswami has spent almost an entire decade supporting the anti-khatna movement,...Read More
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