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---
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title: "Radhakrishna MV"
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subtitle: "Advisor - Open Food Data, iSRL"
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description: "Open Food Facts India contributor and independent data researcher. Advisory network member contributing to regulatory research and open food data representation."
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order: 8
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team-role: "Advisor"
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team-track: "Advisory Network"
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image: images/mvark.png
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about:
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template: trestles
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image-shape: round
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links:
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- icon: globe
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text: mvark.blogspot.com
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href: https://mvark.blogspot.com
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- icon: github
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text: mvark
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href: https://github.com/mvark
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draft: true
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draft-mode: visible
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---
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```{=html}
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<script type="application/ld+json">
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{
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
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"@type": "Person",
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"name": "Radhakrishna MV",
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"jobTitle": "Advisor",
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"description": "Open Food Facts India contributor and independent data researcher. Advisory network member at iSRL.",
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"url": "https://isrl-research.github.io/team/mvark.html",
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"sameAs": [
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"https://mvark.blogspot.com",
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"https://github.com/mvark"
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],
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"worksFor": {
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"@type": "Organization",
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"name": "iSRL",
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"url": "https://isrl-research.github.io"
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}
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}
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</script>
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```
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Anil has been a long-standing contributor to [Open Food Facts India](https://in.openfoodfacts.org/) — the kind of work that is genuinely unglamorous and genuinely necessary, because someone has to care enough to go enter the data.
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His work at iSRL spans research writing and manuscript review. He authored [The Taxonomy of Taste: How International Systems Regulate Ingredient Names](https://isrl-research.github.io/logs/2026-03-log-t2-how_international_system_regulate_ingredient_names.html) — a Track B survey of how Canada, the USA, the EU, and Australia-New Zealand maintain official systems for ingredient identity, and the structural problems those systems are designed to solve. He also reviewed [Data Acquisition and Ingredient Extraction: Building a Vocabulary of What India's Packaged Food Labels Actually Say](https://isrl-research.github.io/pub/2026-04-r-variants/), specifically for accurate and respectful representation of the Open Food Facts dataset and contributor ecosystem. Both contributions connect to the same underlying question: how ingredient identity gets regulated, named, and documented at scale — and what that means for building infrastructure like IFID in a context where no shared reference layer currently exists.
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Outside iSRL: [India Food Stats](https://indiafoodstats.blogspot.com/) covers food, science, and data on Indian packaged food and the systems around them. His personal blog is at [mvark.blogspot.com](https://mvark.blogspot.com) and his GitHub at [indiafoodstats](https://github.com/mvark/indiafoodstats). He was recognised at the Open Food Facts Community Gathering 2025 as part of the krishanti duo, for using Open Food Facts data to write insightful articles on Indian food.

‎team/thejeshgn.qmd‎

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title: "Thejesh GN"
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subtitle: "Advisor — Open Data Standards, iSRL"
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description: "Independent technologist and co-founder of DataMeet. Advisory network member contributing open data standards expertise to IFID."
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order: 6
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team-role: "Advisor — Open Data Standards"
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team-track: "Advisory Network"
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image: images/thejeshgn.jpg
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about:
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template: trestles
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image: images/thejeshgn.png
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image-shape: round
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links:
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- icon: globe
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text: thejeshgn.com
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href: https://thejeshgn.com
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- icon: github
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text: thejeshgn
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href: https://github.com/thejeshgn
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draft: true
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draft-mode: visible
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---
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```{=html}
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<script type="application/ld+json">
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{
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
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"@type": "Person",
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"name": "Thejesh GN",
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"jobTitle": "Advisor — Open Data Standards",
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"description": "Independent technologist and co-founder of DataMeet. Advisory network member at iSRL.",
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"url": "https://isrl-research.github.io/team/thejeshgn.html",
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"sameAs": [
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"https://thejeshgn.com",
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"https://github.com/thejeshgn"
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],
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"worksFor": {
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"@type": "Organization",
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"name": "iSRL",
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"url": "https://isrl-research.github.io"
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}
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}
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</script>
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```
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Advisor — Open Data Standards at iSRL. Thejesh GN ("Thej") is an independent technologist and co-founder of [DataMeet](https://datameet.org/), the largest community of data science and open data enthusiasts in India.
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His advisory contribution to IFID came through a working session on open data governance and interoperability for the project — the notes from which are [documented publicly in the iSRL research discussion](https://github.com/orgs/isrl-research/discussions/6#discussioncomment-16078778). The conversation shaped three threads that are now active in IFID's architecture thinking: the plugin/extension model for the metadata schema (core fields that every consumer gets, with specialised communities extending outward without touching the core); the MusicBrainz identifier architecture as a structural analogue for how stable, open ingredient IDs could function across India's food ecosystem; and the BEE Star Label QR precedent as a citable Indian regulatory anchor for the "basic label + machine-readable detail" framing IFID is building toward.
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His broader work spans open geospatial data, civic technology, and sustained advocacy for open data standards in India. His blog is at [thejeshgn.com](https://thejeshgn.com) and his projects are on [GitHub](https://github.com/thejeshgn).

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