Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Conference Fund/1st International Conference on Education, Wikimedia and Digital Cultures
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Applicant details edit
- A. Are you applying as a(n)
Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
- B. Full name of organization presenting the proposal.
Asociación Civil Wikimedia Argentina
- F. Do you have an account on a Wikimedia project?
Yes
- F1. Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Anna Torres (WMAR)
- F2. Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Luisina Ferrante (WMAR) Florencia Guastavino (WMAR) Patricio.lorente
- G. Are you legally registered?
Yes
If you are applying as an individual or your group is not a legally registered nonprofit in your country, we require that you have a fiscal sponsor.
Objectives and Strategy edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal.
1st International Conference on Education, Wikimedia and Digital Cultures
- 2.1. When will the event begin? Please enter the event start date.
2023-09-14
- 2.2. When is the last day of your event?
2023-09-16
- 3.1. When will you begin preparing for your event?
2023-04-03T00:00:00Z
- 3.2. When will you expect to complete your last event payment?
2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? Where will the conference take place?
Argentina
- 5. Is it a remote or in-person event?
In-person event
- 5.1. What will be the total number of participants at the event? (including scholarship recipients + organizing team + other guests + self funded guests) (required)
200
- 6. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope.
International
- 6.1. If you have answered regional, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
We expect to bring participant from Mexico, Colombia, Perú, Uruguay, Brasil, Chile, Bolivia, Spain, Germany, USA, among others.
- 7. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
https://wikimedia.org.ar/ https://unlp.edu.ar/
- 8. Do you work with any thematic or regional platforms such as WISCom, CEE, Iberocoop, etc.
No
- 8.1. Please describe what platforms and your work with them.
- 9. Please describe the target participants for this event.
The target participants are focused specifically on educational audience at a local, regional and international level, inside and outside the Wikimedia community. The participants of this event don't need to have any minimum level of Wikimedia experience to engage in the conference activities.
Specifically, we expect participants from:
- Teaching and academic community in Argentina.
- Teaching and academic community at regional and global level.
- Local, regional and global Wikimedia community linked to educational projects within the movement.
- NGOs linked to education topics
- Public universities in Argentina.
- Public officials and governmental institutions linked to the development of public policies at local and regional level.
- University and teacher training students in Argentina.
- 10. Please provide the link to the event's page if you already have one.
The following questions (11-14) will refer to the Community Engagement Survey which is required in order to submit a proposal. Here is the survey form that you can copy and use (if the link does not work): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ieEI8EFf2vxjD9wN_h8-srYeRCp4fhSp7_1_wiR2jh8/edit. This survey is required to access a Conference grant.
- 11. How many people did you send the community engagement survey to?
700
- 11.1. When did you conduct the survey, and for how long?
From January 16th until January 31st.
- 12. How many people responded to the survey?
110
- 13. What are the main objectives of the event?
The main objectives that were highlighted by the community to discuss and be part of the conference program are:
- To promote and consolidate the positioning of Wikimedia projects as allies for academia and higher education spaces.
- Develop a space for knowledge transfer, discussion and networking to promote the development of new educational strategies on topics like media literacy, digital access, disinformation and Wikimedia projects.
- Identify strategic priorities for education and Wikimedia projects and strengthen alliances to develop a common work agenda, especially at the regional level.
- 14. Based on survey responses, what are the most important things your community should do at the conference to achieve these objectives?
The most important actions to achieve these objectives are:
- Design a program focused on the community's priority issues that promotes learning, networking and capacity building spaces.
- Generate participatory dynamics to encourage participants to feel comfortable to share their projects and experiences as well as to build networks to accompany initiatives within and outside the Wikimedia movement.
- Develop different formats of presentations, round tables, discussion spaces, plenary sessions that allow us to learn from new experiences, identify priorities and opportunities and generate strategic alliances to promote future projects regarding Education and Wikimedia projects
- 15. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Not applicable
- 15.1. In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge. (optional recommended).
Our work at local, regional and international level consists of accompanying the processes of social and digital inclusion from the Wikimedia movement. These inequalities, still very present in Argentina and the region, are priority topics for this congress: inequality in Internet access, technological devices, teacher training, etc. through Wikimedia projects. This congress is considered a key space to share and generate experiences within and outside the movement, with the support of academia and the educational community that allows working on the generation of strategies, sharing educational practices and building bridges to accompany local realities from a perspective of social and digital inclusion, in which the Wikimedia movement can be a great ally.
- 16. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Human Rights, Public Policy
- 17. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Socioeconomic status, Digital Access
- 18. Do you intend to invite or engage with non-Wikimedian individuals or organizations? If so – can you explain your intention for this outreach?
The event is intended to be open to participants from both inside and outside the Wikimedia Movement. For this we will carry out the following outreach strategies:
- Open call through WMAR and UNLP's social media channels.
- Open call for project applications from the academic community at national and regional level through the National University of La Plata.
- Dissemination in national and regional media, especially media specialized in education.
- Dissemination within the Wikimedia movement
- Dissemination through allied organizations at national and regional level.
- 19. What will you do to make sure participants continue to engage in your activities after the event?
The conference is conceived as a meeting space in which we intend to bring together participants who are already developing educational proposals at the national level within the framework of our educational program. At the same time, the fact of holding the conference at the university allows us to bring together people who are researching, working and developing experiences related to education and digital cultures, in which learning and deepening about educational projects within the Wikimedia movement can open new fronts of collaborative work at national, regional and global level. We will also publish the results of the congress with the projects and papers presented by the educational community and we will deepen the support that the program has been providing to the national educational community by disseminating, accompanying and establishing a network among the different participating actors.
- 20. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact
Logistical Aspects edit
- 21. Do you have any proposed venue for the event?
The venue will be at the National University of La Plata in the building located in the heart of the city. The hotel belongs to the university and is located 5 blocks away from the venue. The airport is located 1 hour and 15 minutes from the hotel, and we will take arrange transportation for scholarship recipients. The venue for the event is provided by the university and have several spaces in the same building with Internet access.
- 22. Is the event venue and hotel accessible for people with physical disabilities?
Yes
- 23. How many scholarships would you like to offer?
We want to propose 25 full scholarships for regional and international applicants and 25 partial scholarships (to cover travel) for applicants from Argentina.
- 24. What expenses will the scholarship cover?
Full scholarships cover the flight ticket, transportation from the airport to the hotel, 4 nights hotel stay, 4 meals per day and medical insurance. Partial scholarships cover transportation within Argentina and meals during the congress (breakfast, lunch and snacks).
- 25. How will scholarship recipients be selected?
The scholarship application system will be divided into two formats and will be evaluated by the academic committee in charge of the selection process:
- Presentation of academic papers and research projects related to the theme of the congress.
- Presentation of projects and experiences developed within the Wikimedia movement.
The academic committee will be composed of 3 representatives from the National University of La Plata, 2 representatives from Wikimedia Argentina and 1 representative from the Wikimedia Foundation Education Team.
- 26. In which ways can Wikimedia Foundation staff support your event onsite?
We identify these areas of support:
- Lead specific sessions of projects they are currently accompanying.
- Some keynotes during the conference
- Help and support for outreach and communication.
- 26.2. Do you intend to invite any WMF staff members to your event? (please note that all WMF staff travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the foundation). Please indicate what is the limit number of WMF staff members you would like to welcome at your event.
WMAR would like to invite:
Melissa Guadalupe Huertas Nichole Saad Ben Vershbow Lisa Seitz-Gruwell
- 27. Please outline the roles and responsibilities of the organizing team for the conference.
The conference is organized as follows:
- An organizing committee in charge of the logistics and planning of the event at the venue, managing the specific spaces for the conference, the necessary resources for its support (internet and infrastructure for 200 people) and catering, as well as coordinating the purchase of airline tickets, hotel accommodation, medical insurance, and the details corresponding to the management of scholarships.
- An Academic Committee in charge of designing the criteria for the application to the congress and subsequent evaluation of the applicants. It will be in charge of designing the program, communicating the deadlines for the application, selecting the scholarship holders and confirming the speakers for the round tables, workshops and plenary sessions of the event.
In both cases, representatives from the University of la Plata & WMAR will be involved in both committees as well as in charge of the design of the congress identity, the creation of the code of conduct and the management of the event during the three days of the congress.
- 28. Do you have plans to co-organize the event with other Wikimedia communities, groups or affiliates?
No
- 28.1. If yes, can you please explain how you are going to co-organize the event and what responsibilities each partner will have.
- 29. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these?
Our main risk is linked to the level of our monthly inflation that varies from month to month and it is very difficult to foresee. In this sense, in order to mitigate the risk, the budgets consulted -especially catering, design and hotel- have frozen the price if we paid before the month of June 2023. In the event that payments are not made in June and the budget increases, we estimate the devaluation of the peso, which helps us to face higher payments in the future.
Another possible risk is related to the presidential elections that will take place this year in Argentina. This could imply possible delays in the times of our state counterparts
Considering that the elections will take place in August, October and November, it was decided to hold the conference in September, the only month in which there are no events directly linked to the elections at the national level. At the same time, holding the conference in a public university with a date already agreed with the institution ensures that the institution is responsible for holding the event during the election period. In this sense, the partnership is key to be able to sustain the conference and its development beyond the political context. At the same time, Wikimedia Argentina has developed international conferences in other years when there were elections in the country, and we have the experience of being able to organize an event in time to avoid stepping on the toes of the specific months when there are elections.
- 30. Friendly space policy - Please add the link to the friendly space policy that your community will be using for this event.
Find our friendly space policy in the following link: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Normas_de_convivencia
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 31. What do you hope to learn from your work organising this conference?
- How does the development of an event open to new audiences attract new voices and alliances to the Wikimedia Movement? Does our work favor the growth and diversification of our community?
- How and in what way does the event change the perception of academia about the use of Wikimedia projects in education?
- To what extent does our work promote the strengthening of alliances and the development of common agendas in the region?
- 32. Main open metrics
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| New participants | Number of first-time participants in a Wikimedia movement event.
Metric expressed as a percentage. |
50 |
| New alliances | Number of new partnerships that join WMAR's education program or within another regional community after the event. | 10 |
| Perception change | % of perception change on the use of Wikimedia projects in educational spaces by the participants. | 70 |
| Regional cooperation | Coordinated initiatives at the regional level, post conference | 2 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
Financial Proposal edit
- 33. What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
86030
- 34. Select your local currency.
USD
- 35. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bfq6YnBq99eKEiOliLsN9paxzTTuJ1G4asS_yVI_-Xg/edit#gid=0
- 36. Do you expect to receive funding for this conference from other organizations to support your work?
Yes
- 36.1. If yes, what kind of resources are you expecting to get?
The venue, conference design, facilitators, cleaning services and recording of the event are inkind donations from the Universidad Nacional de la Plata.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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