WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/How to reach out to those offline

ID : offlineoutreach
Speakers : Florence Devouard, Ruby D. Brown, Stéphane Coillet-Matillon, Vahid Masrour, Minette Lontsie	Time block: Saturday 6 November 2021	Start : 13:55
	Location : Room B	Duration : 55 minutes
Description : 4.5 billion people are disconnected This is the divide. The 60% of the world who could benefit the most from open resources and supporting tools lack the connectivity needed to access them. Let's talk about it ! The panel facilitated by Anthere will provides an update about technological solutions available to bridge the gap for people who have poor, or expensive, or no internet connexion. It will also be a place to share lessons, difficulties and success, from those involved in offline initiatives, in particular in the education sector. It will be the opportunity to discuss solutions to tackle issues around offline educational content and localization. Finally, it will be a possibility to promote the Wikimedians of Offline Wikis User Group. The panelists will be Florence Devouard (Anthere). Florence has been a wikipedian for 19 years and currently work on many iniatitives in Africa as co-founder of the Wiki in Africa association. She will moderate the panel and talk about the award-winning offline editing software m:WikiFundi. - http://www.wikifundi.org Ruby D. Brown is the Administrative Executive at Open Foundation West Africa. She will be sharing the impact of their Kiwix4schools project and the strategies deployed in implementing the project and how it can be adapted, and some lessons learned. - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix4Schools_Project Stéphane Coillet-Matillon. " I’m old enough that my first browser was Netscape - I started using the internet when the web was a couple of years old and Yahoo! was the biggest search engine. Then 18 years ago I started editing Wikipedia. Yet today barely half of the world has access to it. How long until everyone can? I don’t know either, but this is why we created Kiwix - so that people can access content without the need for permanent connectivity." - http://www.kiwix.org Vahid Masrour. Vahid works for Learning Equality, which develops the Kolibri platform, an open-source set of tools that provides access to openly licensed multimedia educational resources (such as Khan Academy, PhET, and many others) in offline environments. - https://www.learningequality.org/kolibri/ Minette Lontsie : a trained journalist, entrepreneur and wikimedian from Cameroon. Passionate about creating content for Africans and filling the content gap about Africa on the internet, with a strong interest in arts and culture, gender equality, photography and IT. A member of the Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group since 2017. Offline activity : WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique ACCESS TO VIDEO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDRsaCJyWwc		Themes : Outreach, Education & GLAM
		Tags : Outreach, Offline access, Kiwix4schools, African Community, WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique, WikiFundi, Learning Equality
		Notes : #WikiIndaba2021_offlineoutreach