Hi all

I’m looking for feedback and endorsement for my Wikimedia Foundation PEG grant to be Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO. I’d very much appreciate if you would have a look, I want to include as many different projects and languages as possible and connect editors in each country with local UNESCO partners. I'd very much like to make some local Wikimedia contacts in countries where Wikipedia Zero is available.

The big thing for me around education is working with UNESCO and it's partners to release content under an open license and for this to act as a model for other UN organisations. I think this will be especially interesting to them with relation to Wikipedia Zero. 

I ran a pilot project that resulted in the images found in the Wikimedia Commons category Images from the archive of UNESCO, here are a few examples:

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  The Soda volcano, Oromia, Ethiopia.

 
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  Rubble of the cathedral after the earthquake that hit the Capital Port au Prince just before 5 pm on 12 January 2010.

 
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  Young monk, wearing a special costume, July-August 1991, Sikkim, India.

 
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  Sabha, 6, getting ready to walk to school from her house on the borders eastern Gaza strip, where she and her family are still living in tents.

 
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  Not far from Mohenjo-Daro (or Mohenjodaro) - These Mohana fishermen/hunters use lures from real birds to catch more birds. They will either eat them or sell them. Mohenjodaro, Pakistan.

 
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  Priest of rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela, a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.

If you think this is a worthwhile project please click this link and then click the endorse button.

Many thanks

John

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