WikiIndaba conference 2018/Submissions/Grassroots approach for Wikimedia projects in Africa

Submission no. 012

Title of the submission: Grassroots approach for Wikimedia projects in Africa using Gambia as a case study.

Type of submission (lecture, panel, tutorial/workshop, roundtable discussion, lightning talk, birds of a feather discussion): Lecture

Author of the submission: Boubacarr Coly

Language of presentation: English & French

E-mail address: slamrazgmail.com

Username: Onix228

Country of origin: Gambia

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.): Planning Wikimedia Gambia

Personal homepage or blog

Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal): In Africa, we understood today that the key of the success in several domain is in the access to the information. Thus by seeing that all the Wikimedia projects works in the opening of a massive and free access to the information, we understood that a large-scale popularization was necessary to include as much as possible our local populations. The fact is our countries, like The Gambia, are in a wide range dominated by a very young population where the greater part are students and academics with usually a specific lack of access to open information; so our program as a grassroots approach aims to gather all that youth potentiality under wikimedia projects by highlighting and underlining the various interest and possibilities existing through digital and physical communities. With The Gambia as a case study, our approach is based on an global and local inclusion of the youth as main actors and contributors through different methods that raise their awareness about open culture and free knowledge platforms.

What will attendees take away from this session?: The attendees could understand under a new approach how can be positive the impact of the Wikimedia Projects for african youth and at the same time get new ideas and skills to bigger the community of users in their local area with our grassroots approach and probably know much better how to solve the community approach problems.

Theme of presentation: WikiCulture & Community

For workshops and discussions, what level is the intended audience?: Beginning

Length of session (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long): 25 minutes

Will you attend WikiIndaba if your submission is not accepted?: yes

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Is this Submission a Draft or Final? Final

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Lionel Scheepmans ^{✉ Contact} _{French native speaker, sorry for my dysorthography} 12:55, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Committee decision

Declined

Reason: Limited proof that the described techniques have been practically successful in Gambia.