WikiIndaba conference 2021/Owula kpakpo/Report

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Participant

My name is Justice Okai-Allotey and I was a volunteer Wikimedian and a speaker at Wiki Indaba 2021.

Sessions attended

• Preconference events I attended

1. Community resources: How to get funded
2. Affiliation Committee: How to create and support an affiliate in the Movement
3. Privacy and security online
4. Universal Code of Conduct: The Enforcement Draft Guidelines Roundtable
5. Indaba Diaspora: Rethinking and Resetting Knowledge Sharing on Africa in the 6th Region of the African Union, the Diaspora
6. WMF Communications Department Roundtable

• Conference events I attended

1. Opening Ceremony
2. I was a speaker at Wiki Indaba speaking on African Wikimedians Volunteer Support Network with Joy Agyepong
3. Maryana Iskander's Listening Tour
4. Wiki Heritage in Africa
5. Wiki Women's Voices: Addressing Content and Gender Gaps on The Wikis
6. Wikimedians involved in Association Football
7. Appreciating GLAM through Showcasing Ghana's Lighthouses
8. CEE Meets African Wikimedians: Regional Hubs Implementation Perspectives and Challenges
9. Leveraging on the Youth Factor for a Sustainability
10. Wikimedia activities and the sustainable development goals
11. Keynote session : Reconsidering and recalibrating Wikimedia in an era of constant change
12. The future of knowledge creation in Africa through partnerships
13. WikiData4Education: Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school curricula
14. Plans for the revitalization of the endangered indigenous African languages: A look at the roles of Wikimedia projects in language preservation
15. State of Wikimedia in Africa

Connections made

• After our session on creating a peer volunteer network for African Wikimedians a lot more Wikimedians reached out to us on the next steps on the way forward for how we would go about this program. Through our session I got into contact with a lot more African Wikimedians who are very interested in our peer volunteer network.

Learning points

• One of the useful learning point for me was about the movement 2030 processes and the gaps in there for African Wikimedians to fill to bring our communities along.

Outcome

We are currently working on creating a meta page which is seeking to bring together all African Wikimedians on our proposed peer volunteer network. This would be our first point of contact for every African Wikimedian who is looking at being part of our peer network we are proposing.