Page values for "Submissions:2023/What is the future of free knowledge? Collaboratively charting the course of our movement"
"2023_submissions" values
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title | String | What is the future of free knowledge? Collaboratively charting the course of our movement |
status | String | Accepted |
theme | String | Recent Changes, Technology, Wild Ideas |
type | String | Workshop |
abstract | Wikitext | The mission of the Wikimedia movement has always been to bring free knowledge to everyone in the world. However, we know that recent technological developments – for example, advances in artificial intelligence, and new social apps and devices that allow people to interact with the digital world in new ways – are moving quickly and may have a big impact on how knowledge is created and accessed. In Movement Strategy Recommendation #9: “Innovate in Free Knowledge”, our movement calls for “change, flexibility, and experimentation to stay relevant” as technology evolves. But how do we know and agree on which strategies to pursue? For example: Should the Wikimedia Foundation invest in building our own AI chatbot to bring more people to Wikimedia sites and apps? Or, should we strive to make it easier for our existing content to be reused in any online experience where people like to spend time, including third-party AI assistants and social apps? Something else? Pursuing any of these directions will require a great deal of thought, investment, and buy-in from the movement. To explore the opportunities and risks of these and other strategies for innovating in free knowledge, the "Future Audiences" initiative at the Wikimedia Foundation has been focused on a) developing a sharper map of what the future could look like, and b) identifying and running experiments to better understand how our movement could continue to bring value to and be sustained within different possible futures. In this workshop, we invite anyone who shares our passion for new technologies and future audiences to:
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author | String | Maryana Pinchuk |
List of Email, delimiter: , | mpinchuk@wikimedia.org | |
username | String | MPinchuk (WMF) |
affiliates | String | Wikimedia Foundation |
time | String | 60-75 min |
requests | Wikitext | This session will include some interactive brainstorming, so would be helpful to have a room with either a whiteboard or an empty wall for collating sticky notes |
presented | Wikitext | No |
livestream | Boolean | Yes |
video | String |