India has 665 districts and 5993 sub-districts where independent and citizen journalists and the people gather news and report about it on social media platforms. They do this in many different languages. The 2011 census listed more than 110 languages.

On November 6, 2024 Elon Musk wrote on X: "News should come from the people. From those actually on the scene and those who actually are subject-matter experts."

Hashtags are a powerful tool to share, search and engage with content, also when this content is in different languages. Simply click on a hashtag and posts in English, in Hindi or any other language may pop-up.

#tagcoding means that one uses standardized hashtags to relate online information to specific topics in order to structure it and retrieve it easily.

Besides explaining the utility and practice of #tagcoding, the main contribution of this e-book is the provision of standardized hashtags for all districts and sub-districts of India.

In addition it lists hashtags for economic activities, functions of government, sustainable development goals and targets, products and services, and the languages of India.

By using in-document links, the e-book supports easy navigation throughout the presented hierarchical classifications. Simple search of a term in an e-reader delivers the standard-based hashtag which you can add to your post or article.

The proposition of #tagcoding is that small changes in using social media and the internet, when done collaboratively and at scale, will accelerate knowledge localization and retrieval for instruction, economic and social development. For languages that are less used on the internet, it will help overcoming the digital divide.

Feel free to contact the author:

• if you are a native speaker, and willing to cooperate for translating #tagcoding resources into another language that is supported by Google Translate - ens.wiki.
• if you are a native speaker of another language listed at Languages: codes and countries - ens.wiki and you would like to cooperate for creating a xy2.wiki where xy is the 2 or 3 character #ISO639 code of the language.

#tagcoding means that one uses standardized hashtags to relate online information to specific topics in order to structure it and retrieve it easily.

This e-book introduces systematically defined hashtags for four topic dimensions: economic activities, functions of government, countries and languages. By using in-document links, the e-book supports easy navigation throughout the presented hierarchical classifications.

This e-book and related online tools for looking up a topic's hashtag support a rapid classification and retrieval of shared online content.

Using systematically defined hashtags is an atomic habit for the age of digital communications.

Its proposition is that small changes in using social media and the internet, when done collaboratively and at scale, will accelerate knowledge localization for policy, debate, economic and social development, it will improve discourse in the digital public sphere.

#tagcoding means that one uses standardized hashtags to relate online information to specific topics in order to structure it and retrieve it easily.

This e-book introduces systematically defined hashtags for three topic dimensions: products and services, countries and languages. By using in-document links, the e-book supports easy navigation throughout the presented hierarchical classification.

This e-book and related online tools for looking up a topic's hashtag support a rapid classification and retrieval of shared online content.

Using systematically defined hashtags is an atomic habit for the age of digital communications.

Its proposition is that small changes in using social media and the internet, when done collaboratively and at scale, will accelerate knowledge localization for policy, debate, economic, social and personal development. It will improve discourse and efficiency in the digital public sphere.