Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosuigwe@aflia.net neosuigwe@aflia.net * *drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com*
*nkemekene@ymail.com nkemekene@ymail.com* *Website: www.aflia.net http://www.aflia.net* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
*"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein*
Hi Nkem,
Welcome in the community.
We are wikimedians from the Dem. Rep of the Congo, and would be happy to help web.aflia.net getting in touch with wikipedia and its sister projects and/or with libriarians from DRC
Best, Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev Free Culture Enthusiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday 19 February 2020 23:09, Nkem Osuigwe neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. neosuigwe@aflia.net drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com nkemekene@ymail.com
Website: www.aflia.net Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford. "Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein
Thank you Abel! That would be great.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
neosuigwe@aflia.net drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com nkemekene@ymail.com Website: www.aflia.net
AfLIA, Connecting Africa's Library and Information Communities
"Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 10:37 am Abel L MBULA, news.abel@protonmail.com wrote:
Hi Nkem,
Welcome in the community.
We are wikimedians from the Dem. Rep of the Congo, and would be happy to help web.aflia.net getting in touch with wikipedia and its sister projects and/or with libriarians from DRC
Best, Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev Free Culture Enthusiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
Sent with ProtonMail https://protonmail.com Secure Email.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday 19 February 2020 23:09, Nkem Osuigwe neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosuigwe@aflia.net neosuigwe@aflia.net * *drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com* *nkemekene@ymail.com nkemekene@ymail.com*
*Website: www.aflia.net http://www.aflia.net* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
*"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein*
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Hi, I have done it! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_in_African_Librarie... I have created a proposal. Please do all have a look. Felix Nartey should be listed as an advisor because he started it all. Yet to get his approval for that so didn't add him. I hope I can still do that. Thank you!
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosuigwe@aflia.net neosuigwe@aflia.net * *drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com*
*nkemekene@ymail.com nkemekene@ymail.com* *Website: www.aflia.net http://www.aflia.net* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
*"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein*
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:37 AM Abel L MBULA news.abel@protonmail.com wrote:
Hi Nkem,
Welcome in the community.
We are wikimedians from the Dem. Rep of the Congo, and would be happy to help web.aflia.net getting in touch with wikipedia and its sister projects and/or with libriarians from DRC
Best, Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev Free Culture Enthusiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
Sent with ProtonMail https://protonmail.com Secure Email.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday 19 February 2020 23:09, Nkem Osuigwe neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosuigwe@aflia.net neosuigwe@aflia.net * *drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com* *nkemekene@ymail.com nkemekene@ymail.com*
*Website: www.aflia.net http://www.aflia.net* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
*"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein*
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Thanks, so much for the introduction. L
On Feb 19, 2020 4:09 PM, "Nkem Osuigwe" neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosuigwe@aflia.net neosuigwe@aflia.net * *drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com*
*nkemekene@ymail.com nkemekene@ymail.com* *Website: www.aflia.net http://www.aflia.net* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
*"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein*
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Thank you!
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
neosuigwe@aflia.net drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com nkemekene@ymail.com Website: www.aflia.net
AfLIA, Connecting Africa's Library and Information Communities
"Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 12:33 pm Adjoa Linda Fletcher, belrivers@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, so much for the introduction. L
On Feb 19, 2020 4:09 PM, "Nkem Osuigwe" neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosuigwe@aflia.net neosuigwe@aflia.net * *drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com*
*nkemekene@ymail.com nkemekene@ymail.com* *Website: www.aflia.net http://www.aflia.net* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
*"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein*
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Hi Nkem,
I see your project grant on meta. It's good. You have to change the status from draft to proposed already as the deadline is today.
Best,
Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev Free Culture Enthusiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday 20 February 2020 13:54, Nkem Osuigwe neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Thank you!
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
neosuigwe@aflia.net drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com nkemekene@ymail.com Website: www.aflia.net
AfLIA, Connecting Africa's Library and Information Communities
"Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 12:33 pm Adjoa Linda Fletcher, belrivers@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, so much for the introduction. L
On Feb 19, 2020 4:09 PM, "Nkem Osuigwe" neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. neosuigwe@aflia.net drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com nkemekene@ymail.com
Website: www.aflia.net Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford. "Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Ok. Thank you very much.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
neosuigwe@aflia.net drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com nkemekene@ymail.com Website: www.aflia.net
AfLIA, Connecting Africa's Library and Information Communities
"Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 4:57 pm Abel L MBULA, news.abel@protonmail.com wrote:
Hi Nkem,
I see your project grant on meta. It's good. You have to change the status from draft to proposed already as the deadline is today.
Best,
Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev Free Culture Enthusiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
Sent with ProtonMail https://protonmail.com Secure Email.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday 20 February 2020 13:54, Nkem Osuigwe neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Thank you!
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
neosuigwe@aflia.net drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com nkemekene@ymail.com Website: www.aflia.net
AfLIA, Connecting Africa's Library and Information Communities
"Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 12:33 pm Adjoa Linda Fletcher, belrivers@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, so much for the introduction. L
On Feb 19, 2020 4:09 PM, "Nkem Osuigwe" neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. *neosuigwe@aflia.net neosuigwe@aflia.net * *drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com drnkemosuigwe@gmail.com* *nkemekene@ymail.com nkemekene@ymail.com*
*Website: www.aflia.net http://www.aflia.net* Facebook /Twitter /Instagram
*"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.* *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein*
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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