South Asia

The Odisha Society of the Americas (OSA) is a non-political, non-profit, and voluntary association recognized as a 501(c)(3) public non-profit in the United States. OSA was established in 1969 by a few visionary Oriyas who thought of establishing Oriya identity in the adopted land. The society was incorporated in 1981 in Tennessee as a non-profit corporation for promoting activities for a better understanding of Oriya culture and exchange of information between Orissa, United States and Canada. It held an annual get-together called convention, where people of Oriya origin from different parts of USA and Canada mingled and shared experiences of ethnic living.

Srujanika is an Indian nonprofit organization headquartered in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It works for research and innovation in science, education and development with a focus on Odia language. Ihe organization was founded in 1983 by Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik and Puspashree Pattnaik.It scanned a large volume of public domain and other books including 26 Odia dictionaries. Srujanika collaborated with the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Pragati Utkal Sangha to create an Open Access repository called Open Access to Oriya Books that contains 561 digitally scanned books. On November 12, 2017, Srujanika launched their brand new website odiabibhaba.in containing digitised books, dictionaries, magazine and newspaper archives, reference material, language methods and other information.