Noopur Tiwari is an Indian journalist,[1] feminist,[2] founder of a non-profit, blockchain led tech platform against sexual violence, Smashboard.[3] She has reported live for NDTV[1] on a broad range of key political, economic and social stories from Europe since 2004. Tiwari writes for the Hindustan Times,[4] Business Standard,[5] The Caravan,[6] TheWire.in,[7] and Scroll.in.[8] She is the co-curator of a feminist Twitter handle called Genderlogindia.[9] Tiwari worked as a producer with NDTV[10] 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.[11] The idea of the platform dates to 2016. The #MeToo movement subsequently gave an added impetus to the development of the project.[12]
In 2021 Smashboard won the Netexplo Innovation Grand Prize (global innovation observatory) in partnership with UNESCO.[13]