Noopur Tiwari
Noopur Tiwari is an Indian journalist, feminist, founder of a non-profit, blockchain led tech platform against sexual violence, Smashboard. She has reported live for NDTV on a broad range of key political, economic and social stories from Europe since 2004. Tiwari writes for the Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The Caravan, TheWire.in, and Scroll.in. She is the co-curator of a feminist Twitter handle called Genderlogindia. Tiwari worked as a producer with NDTV from 1996 to 2003.
Noopur Tiwari launched the social network Smashboard in 2019, with the aim of uniting a global community of feminists (regardless of their gender) with mutual aid, solidarity and feminism intersectional as essential bases. The idea of the platform dates to 2016. The #MeToo movement subsequently gave an added impetus to the development of the project.
In 2021 Smashboard won the Netexplo Innovation Grand Prize (global innovation observatory) in partnership with UNESCO.