Wikimedia Conference 2018/Documentation/Movement Strategy track/Annexes/Capacity Building

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Introduction of the Movement Strategy track,  » flow of activities (and this report)

Summary » You don't have time to read everything? Check the summary of it!

Day 1  » The Big Picture, » The Possibilities, » The Challenges

Day 2 » The Way Forward,  » Preparing to work,  » Thematic Inputs & Conversations

Day 3 » Working groups,  » Wrapping up

Annexes » Input documents for the working groups,  » Micro-inputs on possibilities

Working Group Input Document: Capacity Building

Extracted May 1st from Etherpads

Capacity Building

PARTICIPANTS

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WHAT?

KEY QUESTIONS

• How can we develop an international tech community?

• What kind of resources do we need to conceive training materials? Online courses? What kind of ambassador?

• How can we easily sharing informations about project crossing barriers languages?

• What kind of capacity community/affiliates needs?

• What is the baseline capacity? What new capacity do we need to build?

• How using resources for building capacity?

• What is the existing capacities?

Governance/Collaborative capacity/sharing experiences and knowledge/fundraising capacity and tech capacity + innovative capacity

Adapt and resilience capacity.

Dokument prepared bei Nicola Zeuner

• Dimension 1: Nicola Zeuner´s text: WM and Free Knowledge communities around the world will grow in the next decades
  • Q: How we build capacity?
  • Which resources communities require, and how they are delivered?
  • How do we build capacities of organizations?  
  • What are some of the methods and tools appropriate in their context?
    • movement entities are able to create spaces and environments and resources for communities and their members to do their work for free and open knowledge
    • we are able to benefit from a wealth of existing knowledge around organizational development, which includes empirical research on which capacities are crucial to make organizations resilient and able to achieve their missions
• Dimension 2: Nicola Zeuner´s text: their governance/ decision-making structures, financial and human resources that reflect and support our vision and goals
• Dimension 3: Nicola Zeuner´s text: WM Affiliates, who need organizational capacities to implement the strategy in their context

MEMBERS

Key groups

• Recommendation: don´t forget to include external expert voices when thinking about movement level things
• People from emerging communities
• People from different regions, representative of community (like Asia communities), affiliate and chapter - to see whole spectrum

PROCESS

• Generally for all three dimensions the first step should be an assessment of needs - what capacities do different affiliates/groups/people have? what are their needs?
• The first dimension is that  of the Wikimedia and Free Knowledge communities around the world, those that exist, and those that will grow in the next decades.
  • build capacity to store information that is not texted based (oral, pictures, videos?)
• The second dimension is at the movement level, where we need:
  • governance/decision-making structures,
  • financial and human resources that reflect and support our vision and goals.
• The third dimension are the Wikimedia Affiliates, who need organizational capacities to implement the strategy in their contexts:
• Improve awareness of Wikimedia and Wikipedia in regions where it is not yet a thing
  • Friendly Spaces to meet (Maithili Community)
  • Infrastructure: better tools, better interfaces, better UI
  • Regular Community Meet Ups
  • Train the trainer programs

OTHER COMMENTS

Hints:

• Search for needs in community - research what kind of skills people from communities have - what is their capacity and what do they need to work on
• name and rank those skills - users can also mark their skills on their page and put them on an open market  
• Better way of funding - from small project grants that small community group can apply and do to more strukture grants - to build a organization skills
• Projects should be international, open and known in all communities so people can join to work on - make a list - open calls for joining a team
• Support for independent (lokal, regional or international) projects - that can also help to build a capacity for communities without affiliate
• Open calls for sharing information, list of open calls for cooperation, research - open list (site)

Introduction of the Movement Strategy track,  » flow of activities (and this report)

Summary » You don't have time to read everything? Check the summary of it!

Day 1  » The Big Picture, » The Possibilities, » The Challenges

Day 2 » The Way Forward,  » Preparing to work,  » Thematic Inputs & Conversations

Day 3 » Working groups,  » Wrapping up

Annexes » Input documents for the working groups,  » Micro-inputs on possibilities