Movement Strategy/About/Transition/Reports/A2K


General Information edit

Field Information
Name of your group Access to Knowledge (A2K)
Time and date of the event 30 October 2020: South Asia regional call
4 November 2020: Internal discussion
Who attended? Team members
CIS-A2K/Team
Who facilitated? User:Tito (CIS-A2K) and User:Subodh (CIS-A2K)
Who took notes? User:Tito (CIS-A2K)

Prioritization edit

Q1. Which recommendations will respond to your community’s needs? edit

Choose Your Top Priorities   Why is it prioritized?
Example: recommendation 2, improve user experience Example: Having a more engaging interface will excite more people from our community to want to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
1. Recommendation 6. Invest in Skills and Leadership Development Skill-builiding activities are helpful to bring community leaders, improve content, and strengthen communities, and individuals. We'll continue to initiate and support different skill-building activities. In the upcoming years, we'll focus more on online training, and workshops.
2. Recommendation 7. Manage Internal Knowledge With a large number of active communities, projects, and dedicated communities working around, we have extensive and diverse internal knowledge. A2K, after working for a few years to support to serve the communities, has gained some experience. We would definitely like to systematically document our learning, knowledge and work along with communities and individuals to support plans and activities around this recommendation.
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Q2.From the recommendations, which specific actions and changes would you want prioritized in 2021? edit

Choose Your Top Priorities   Why is it prioritized?
Example: recommendation 2, improve user experience Example: Having a more engaging interface will excite more people from our community to want to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
1. Recommendation 8. Identify topics of impact Over the years, we have seen communities working on and creating free content on different topics and we have seen more awareness in Indian communities to fight against fake news. We would like to support community's plans around this and we can try to connect with subject-experts, institutions, grass-root practitioners as mentors or provide resources support such as books, resource material etc.
2. Recommendation 1. Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement A2K thinks that this is an important recommendation. Sustainability is an important requirement for hard-working Wikimedians, and communities/affiliates. We would like to support this in India, following NGO's rules and regulations, and WMF's advice/support
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Q3. What human capacity and / or financial resources do you need to work on implementation? edit

Think of your existing resources, the movement’s vast resources, and the support infrastructure you may need for moving ideas forward.

  • Co-ordination with Wikimedia Foundation and their suggestion and advice.
  • As we get a grant from APG, other than that we do not have any other financial requirement to initiate/support plans/activities.

Q4. Which initiatives do you think should be the top focus for global coordination? edit

Think global, movement-wide changes needed.