Hello,
recently Wikimedia Czech Republic was involved into the creation of the Czech Republic digital education strategy for 2020. This strategy is being created from comments of different involved parties (NGOs, corporate and public). It is a basis for a creation of laws and other documents by Czech Ministry of Education and other related organisations. Czech education is basically public, while some private schools (on all levels), should repect some basic education corpus set by the Ministry.
Unfortunately for Wikipedia, this strategy and the previous ones are based on decentralization of digital education resources. So WMF projects, could not be the only one digital resources for Czech students. This push as to the open market, where we are disadvantaged, because corporate and maybe some other entities could get the best marketers/sellers of their products and be more succesfull in getting more students for their digital products.
Responsable people understand that NGOes might be handicapped in such markets as they are usually good in what they do, but they are not good in marketing. Here we are looking for a functional system, which would place equality between corporate and NNO sector. And thats why, I am writing to you. Any idea, how the "offical recommendation" could support NNO projects such as Wikipedia?
Regards, Juandev
Juan de Vojníkov, 14/07/2014 19:42:
Unfortunately for Wikipedia, this strategy and the previous ones are based on decentralization of digital education resources.
Doesn't sound such a horrible thing. :-)
So WMF projects, could not be the only one digital resources for Czech students. This push as to the open market, where we are disadvantaged, because corporate and maybe some other entities could get the best marketers/sellers of their products and be more succesfull in getting more students for their digital products.
Responsable people understand that NGOes might be handicapped in such markets as they are usually good in what they do, but they are not good in marketing. Here we are looking for a functional system, which would place equality between corporate and NNO sector. And thats why, I am writing to you. Any idea, how the "offical recommendation" could support NNO projects such as Wikipedia?
WMIT has worked with a major textbooks publisher of Italy (Garamond) in a similar Italian initiative, with mixed success. If you have a problem of competition you can a) carve a niche for yourself e.g. pointing out the infinite degrees at which the wiki approach can be used (workshops on Wikipedia for a class from 2 to 200 hours per year, use Wikisource to get literature, edit Wikibooks to write their own textbooks, make their own school's wiki); b) join your enemies ;) usually not the first and perhaps not the second, but the third most important market player will have an interest in trying something new and here's where you can embed some wikiness.
Nemo