Collective Action: Women, African Music and Open Knowledge

Collective Action: Women, African Music and Open Knowledge

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About

In the spirit of celebrating women globally who have created positive impact through their acts of service or career path and contributed their quota to global development, this year’s International Women Day celebration, as it is done annually every March, with the theme "Embrace Equity", has been adopted to appreciate the efforts of women worldwide towards making the world a better place to live in, hence promoting inclusiveness and active participation among women in a bid to discourage discrimination, gender based stereotypes and promote an equitable society where opportunities exist for all.

In partnership with Art+Feminism; which is an organization celebrating its’ 10th year of existence on promoting knowledge of women in arts and related discuss globally on open knowledge, we would love to host a meet-up, edit training, edit-a-thon session and a get together party, aimed at exploring conversations about women who are trailblazers in African music, and also take a step further by documenting their stories and impact on the multimillion dollar industry in Africa on selected wikimedia projects –wikipedia, wiki commons and wikidata.

This we believe should bring more credence to the personalities of these amazing women, their impact, and ultimately share the knowledge of their stories with every user of the free encyclopedia and the world generally to learn and re-use freely, since Wikimedia provides a resource to share knowledge with billions of its’ users.

Goals

• Increase capacity of existing volunteers and train new volunteer editors on contributing to Wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wiki Commons, especially as it concerns content on African music, sounds and related arts.
• Create and improve articles on various discuss and topics in African music and sounds.
• Create an awareness about the impact of documenting stories about African music and sounds on open knowledge.
• Identify and partner with relevant stakeholders and partners, willing to support the project of advancing free knowledge about African music, sounds and related arts.
• Promote the contribution of content across several African countries and culture in a bid to preserve heritage and culture through music and sounds relative to each region.

Project Schedule

DAY 1 - 29 APRIL, 2023 Meet-Up Conversation Facilitators Presentation Introduction to Open Knowledge Edit Training & Edit-A-Thon

• Eridan Workspace, Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos

DAY 2 - 6 MAY, 2023 Luncheon to Celebrate Art+Feminism @10

• The Grid, Opebi - Ikeja, Lagos

How to Participate

1. Indicate an interest in African music and open source
2. Sign in or create new account on Wikipedia
3. Register for training session and project onboarding
4. Enroll on the outreach dashboard to track and collate your contributions
5. Edit and contribute!

Articles to be Created

Awards and Shows

• Soundcity MVP Awards 2023
• Felabration 2022
• The Beatz Award 2022

African Musical Acts (Contemporary & Traditional)

• Niphkeys
• Seyi Vibez
• Nana Fofie

African Musical Instruments

• Gangan (Talking Drum) - Audio on Commons
• Omele

African Music/Creative Executives

• Malik Afegbua - XR Visual Artist
• Timi Aladeloba (TMXO) - Producer, A&R
• Titilope Adesanya - Music Executive, EMPIRE
• Olamide Ademeso - Music Executive, EMPIRE
• Temi Adeniji - Music Executive, Warner Music
• Rebecca ‘Dimplez’ Ijeoma - Music Executive, Capitol Music Group
• Muyiwa Awoniyi - Tems Manager
• Fehintoluwa Okegbenle - Biker