[Wikimedia Kenya] Opportunity to deliver Wikipedia training in Tanzania

Kipruto Bett kipruttobett at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 04:58:20 UTC 2011


On 01/11/2011, Kipruto Bett <kipruttobett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would love the opportunity to participate in this.
>
>
> On 01/11/2011, Kosgei Isaac <kipchogekosgei at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> My Pleasure. This would go hand in hand with what I am doing at the
>> moment- creating training content for teachers at Bridge
>> international. I am therefore willing and ready to participate. Thanks
>>
>> On 01/11/2011, Asaf Bartov <abartov at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> I am working on establishing a long-term partnership with an NGO named
>>> ITOCA, dedicated to education training in Africa[1].  One aspect of our
>>> proposed cooperation would be to introduce Wikipedia training to
>>> the curriculum in teacher trainings ITOCA delivers.  I have sent them
>>> some
>>> training materials to review and think about, based on the training
>>> materials[2][3] that Limoke and I had prepared for the Setswana
>>> Wikipedia
>>> Challenge[4].
>>>
>>> The operate throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but there is an opportunity
>>> to
>>> be involved close to home: they are to deliver training at the Muhimbili
>>> University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam,
>>> Tanzania, between Nov 29th and Dec 1st.  They would like to try
>>> incorporating Wikipedia training at this opportunity, and both they and
>>> I
>>> think it would be best if we can involve a Wikipedian in this first time
>>> we
>>> try to incorporate Wikipedia into their training curriculum.
>>>
>>> Would one of the WMKE members who have some experience in editing *and*
>>> in
>>> training be interested in going?  We cover the airfare and
>>> accommodation,
>>> and will pay a small "per diem" allowance for meals and local transport.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>    Asaf
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.itoca.org/
>>> [2] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Challenge
>>> [3] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Challenge/Setswana
>>> [4] http://www.google.com/events/setswana-wiki/index.html
>>> --
>>>     Asaf Bartov
>>>     Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
>>
>>
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