Isla,
I am in the process of putting up information from the scholarship committee onto the wiki and will respond to the other thread on wikimania-l soon.
124 Scholarships were awarded.
Of the 400 scholarships that passed into Phase 2 of the review, 20 were African applicants passed Phase 2. 4 of those got scholarships, so by my calculations that's 20% of the eligible African applicants.
Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program.
You might want to take this up directly with the Scholarship Committee if you have ideas for changes to the program in the future?
Ellie Young WMF Events Manager on behalf of the Scholarship Committee
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Isla Haddow Flood isla@wikiloveswomen.org wrote:
Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the WMF, Africa got 4.
FOUR.
that is 0.02% of what was on offer.
Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried.
That is just not acceptable.
On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott douglas.i.scott@gmail.com wrote:
I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight.
On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan wikimediaza@greenman.co.za wrote:
I applied, also didn't get.
On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote:
Hello All
Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to attend Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t.
thanks! Isla
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