Submissions:2019/How can Africa and North America partner to promote the goals of the Foundation
This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2019.
Title:
- How can Africa and North America partner to promote the goals of the Foundation
Theme:
- Other
Type of session:
- Presentation
Abstract:
African has become a budding region within the Wikimedia movement. Although a lot of activities are on going, there is a need for more collaborations to bring communities there at par with communities with more experience. Close collaborations hold a key to ensuring these communities develop rapidly and explore their full potentials within the movement. This presentation will expose participants to how the activities of the movement has grown on the region over the years past. The presentation will also shed light on the various countries within Africa where various interventions are happening and the types of interventions happening in the respective countries. The presentation will then focus on the needs of these budding communities and areas of possible partnerships in terms of the gaps that exist in these countries.(This will be based on a survey I will conduct for the usergroups in Africa using the African Wikimedian mailing list). Finally this will also seek to explore possible collaboration between WICSOM and Wiki Conference North America.
Academic Peer Review option:
- No
Author name:
E-mail address:
- rberchie@gmail.com
Wikimedia username:
- Rberchie
Affiliated organization(s):
- Open Foundation West Africa
Estimated time:
- 20
Preferred room size:
- 20
Special requests:
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- No
If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)
- Yes