Grants:TPS/Oarabile Mudongo/Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit 2014
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- User name
- User location (country)
Botswana
- Event name
Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit 2014
- Event Web site
- Event date(s)
25 March 2014 - 27 March 2014
- Event location (city)
- Gambia, Banjul
- Amount requested (remember to specify currency!)
USD 1810.73
- Endorsements
Budget breakdown
editNote: Gambian Government has graciously agreed to pay three nights of my stay at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, these nights are March 24, 25, and 26th and my complimentary stay will include breakfast only so i need per-diem to cover lunch and dinner for 3 days.
- Travel: USD 1657.67 (Round trip economy air ticket to and from all the below stated destinations):
- Botswana, Gaborone > South Africa, Johannesburg
- South Africa, Johannesburg > Senegal, Dakar
- Senegal,Dakar > Gambia, Banjul
- http://www.senegalairlines.aero/
- http://www.flysaa.com/za/en/home.action?request_locale=en_ZA
- Per-Diem: USD 51.02/day x 3 days = USD 153.06 (75% of GSA rate)
Proposed Participation
editCurrently serving as a committee member of Wikimania_2015_bid/Cape_Town and one of the major endorsers of the upcoming African Wikimedia conference called WikiIndaba to be hosted in Johannesburg i am self driven to gather and connect the divided Wikimedia communities or look for interested open knowledge volunteers who are aligned to our Wikimedia global mission in Africa. As a founding member of Planning Wikimedia Botswana i also liaise as a very active member of the global movement between the Wikimedia foundation and most African Wikimedia communities to establish strong African co-operative structures and organs made up of Wikimedia Chapters, Wikimedians and mission aligned thematic organizations.My liaison tasks are helping out to integrate new contributors into the Wikimedia projects by teaching them how to edit, the social norms of contributing on the projects, and guidelines for working in the community.
After i have well represented Wikimedia Foundation at last years Youth Engagement Summit held in Mauritius as a VIP delegate Extensia Limited is very pleased again to invite me as a VIP delegate to this years Innovation Africa Digital Summit. This invitation comes after a realization of what i presented last year about the Wikimedia Foundation's own most popular site (Wikipedia) foreseen as one of the major solutions to transform Africa's digital inclusion in Africa.Extensia Ltd. announces that the flagship Innovation Africa Digital Summit will take place at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Gambia between the 25-27th of March 2014. IAD 2014 will be all about making connections. An innovative and inter-active programme will stir the conversations and the high level participation from private, public and third sectors will create the highest level of networking and opportunities in the industry.
As a delegate at this summit i will be running a workshop on Digital Content and my main focus will be based on insights of Wikipedia-An Inclusion in the 21st-century classroom. Furthermore through this workshop i will be addressing the most problems experienced behind the classroom and giving the solution to the impending problems to improve the educational sector in Africa through Wikipedia and Wikiversity.The ability to find, interpret, evaluate, manipulate, share and record information, especially scholarly and educational information, for example dealing with issues of authority, reliability, provenance, citation and relevance in digitized scholarly resources as this is what Wikipedia is trying to achieve.
Direct Engagement
edit- As a workshop facilitator on Digital Content, i will be talking about free knowledge publication and Wikimedia policies on education.
- My participation in this summit will also be widened up as i will cover more on Wikimedia educational projects such WikiVersity and introduce more about Wikipedia Zero, Kiwix (an offline version of Wikipedia) and also advise countries to adopt this initiatives to support their individual countries educational sector.
- I will be engaging and calling all stakeholders to support our envisioned events (WikiIndaba) and Wikimania 2015 bid to build good support and outreach in Wikimedia events.
Goal and Expected Impact
edit- Through this event i will be able to build interest as a need to access Wikimedia projects and intensify the call for adoption of Wikipedia zero initiative for countries looking for this kind of service, since i have been able to contribute to this project with Wikimedia ZA in South Africa successfully.
- Since this conference is all about making connections, i will continue the strides of recruiting new volunteers and offer mentor-ship on editing, contributing and community engagement in Wikimedia projects.
- I also hope to see more people showing interest through their support for WikiIndaba conference and Wikimania bid build a shared understanding of what it means to be a volunteer in Africa as well.