Dear Wikimedians,
After an impactful maiden edition of the Africa Wiki Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2022> last year, we
are elated to announce the second (2nd) edition of the campaign. The
contest calls on all African Wikimedians (individuals, organizers,
affiliates, etc.) in and out of the African continent (including diaspora)
to contribute to this year’s Africa Wiki Challenge. Interested persons
should kindly fill out this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sx0PPWr05wDuKBmTPozJJzQE9qCKdy20_0oBAEe9OR…>
for regular updates about the campaign.
The contest is themed under different concepts annually. We kicked off the
campaign with the theme “landmarks in Africa ''. This year with suggestions
from our community members, and participants of the maiden edition, “African
Culture” was selected as the theme for the contest.
Description of the theme:
Africa is undoubtedly bestowed with a tremendous and beautiful culture.
Despite the fact that every country has its unique way of living, we are
consolidated by our poetic culture and driven by inspirations from each
other.
Are you content with how Africa’s culture is being represented on the web??
How do you feel when you surf the internet to look for information on
certain elements of our culture and find close to nothing?? This is the
perfect opportunity to help bridge the content gap about Africa on the web,
specifically Wikipedia.
This theme is targeted at not just projecting Africa’s culture as a whole,
but also to serve as an inspiration to write our own story. Submissions
will range from individuals, structures, activities, stories, and other
elements that make up the culture of Africa. Just to mention a few;
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Tribes: Traditional groups or societies like Ga Adangbe tribe of Ghana,
Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, and more. Their political systems and kinship
systems
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Festivals: Festival celebrations like the Homowo festival in Ghana, the
Sango Fire festival in Nigeria and Umkhosi Mhlanga in South Africa and
more.
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Food: Elements of African food like recipes, foodstuffs, origin of food,
traditional food, and more.
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Marriages: Components of African marriage like marriage ceremonies,
marriage process, traditional marriages, marriage rites, and more.
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Rites of passage: Diverse African rites like birth rites, puberty rites,
funeral rites, and more.
The aim of this challenge is to document virtually everything culturally
significant about Africa.
We, by this email, invite you to participate in this contest!
As a community organizer, we encourage you to lead your community to
organize/participate and share more about the campaign in your country or
region. Help us in organizing this project in your respective
communities/countries by performing any of the following activities;
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SignUp via this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sx0PPWr05wDuKBmTPozJJzQE9qCKdy20_0oBAEe9OR…>
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Hosting virtual/in-person edit-a-thons (taking into consideration the
Covid-19 guidelines)
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Hosting virtual office hours to provide support before/during and after
the campaign
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Organizing volunteers to translate communication materials
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Creating localized campaign pages on meta for local coordination
(coordination in your country)
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Designing communication materials and promoting them on social media to
encourage participation.
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Organizing media drives and participation for the campaign
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Share, share and share the campaign flyers and other materials!
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Individuals can also participate in the general AWC writing contest.
For Help & Support join our AWC telegram page
<https://t.me/+uQcspw2vuqczOGM0>
Moreover, Community Organizers who are interested in holding an activity
that requires support in terms of funding can request a Rapid grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Apply> between Now
and March 2022.
Kindly visit and keep an eye on the campaign meta page for more information
(page still under construction) and sign up your community if you intend to
participate. Join us to create or improve articles or add photos to
illustrate articles about African Culture!
Kindly note that we are still in the early preparatory stages of the
campaign. You will be updated with further details in due course.
Kind regards,
Eugene Masiku <emasiku(a)ofwafrica.org>
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
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From: Jennryn Wetzler <jennryn(a)creativecommons.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 3:40 PM
Subject: Invitation: Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and
Training, 20 January --23 March
To:
Cc: Dee Harris <dee(a)creativecommons.org>, Ony Anukem <
ony(a)creativecommons.org>
Dear all,
Creative Commons is delighted to invite you and your networks to Ground
Truth in Open Internet, our free upcoming webinar series and training,
running from 20 January --23 March. *Register here.*
<https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons…>
Please share this invitation and information below with your networks--all
are welcome to join.
In the meantime, we hope to see you for the kick-off webinar next week,
when Creative Commons CEO, Catherine Stihler and Google News US
Partnerships Manager, Ashley Edwards, reflect on the challenges and
opportunities journalists face in our tumultuous digital landscape.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jennryn
Jennryn Wetzler
Director of Learning and Training
Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/>
CC is celebrating 20 years of sharing creativity and knowledge
<https://creativecommons.org/20-years/>
Show your gratitude by supporting our 20th Anniversary Campaign
<https://www.classy.org/campaign/20th-anniversary-better-sharing-campaign/c3…>
Ground truth in Open Internet
Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and Training:
January through March 2022
Journalism provides a crucial public service. Access to verifiable
information and stories that question the underlying terrain of power is
critical to democratic societies. Yet, journalism as we know it faces
existential new challenges. Increasingly, journalists face work-halting
financial, and ethical challenges as well as threats to their physical and
digital safety, when sharing information online. Misinformation and
disinformation campaigns in the media challenge collective notions of
ground truth. They challenge the bedrock and meaning of an open internet.
Journalism also faces newfound opportunities, as the tectonic plates of
power shift in our shared digital landscape. We witness the rising role of
nonprofit media sources, filling gaps where traditional media organizations
have shuttered; the rising power of crowdsourcing information and fact
checking, and a powerful new role open internet can play in knowledge
sharing.
Join us as we explore what public, open options our news needs, and how to
take advantage of these options. Through particular cases in Brazil,
Croatia, India, the US, as well as global examples, the webinar series
explores topics of:
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Online narrative power as social power
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Access to information and paywalls in the time of COVID
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How to address mis & disinformation campaigns shifting the focus of
traditional news audiences
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The rising role of nonprofit media and the gap they fill
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Open licensed media
This webinar series will culminate in a ½ day training providing:
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Copyright basics for journalists
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Tools for open access research
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Access to usable photo and media archives
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How to best use open licensed media
Register here
<https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons…>
Open Internet and Journalism
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January 20, 7:00 pm UTC/ 2:00 pm EST
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Speaker: Ashley Edwards <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyaedwards/>, US
Partnerships Manager, Google News Initiative
<https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/>
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Speaker: Catherine Stihler
<https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/>, CEO of Creative Commons
<https://creativecommons.org/>
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To kick off the discussion series, Google News Initiative and Creative
Commons will reflect on the challenges and opportunities at the
intersection of technology, journalism, and social power.
Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation Campaigns: a Community Led
Approach
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January 27, 4:30 pm UTC/ 11:30 am EST
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Speaker: Kate Levan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KLevan_(WMF)>, Disinformation
Specialist - Trust & Safety, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>(WMF)
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Speaker: Diego Saez-Trumper
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/diego-saez-trumper/>, Senior
Research Scientist at Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/> (WMF)
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This conversation will highlight Wikimedia Foundation’s technical
perspective and community lead approach to addressing mis and
disinformation campaigns on Wikipedia, highlighting the Croatian
Disinformation Case
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia_Disinformation_Assessmen…>
and the Biden Campaign Disinformation Retrospective
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biden_Campaign_Disinformation_Retrospe…>
.
Risks with Digital Platforms: Language and Narrative Power
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February 8, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST
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Speaker: PP Sneha
<https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/sneha-pp.pdf/view>,
Program Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society
<https://cis-india.org/>
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Speaker: Torsha Sarkar <https://www.torshasarkar.com/>, Policy Officer
at the Centre for Internet and Society <https://cis-india.org/>
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Speaker: Peter Kaufmann
<https://openlearning.mit.edu/about/our-team/peter-b-kaufman>, MIT Open
Learning <https://openlearning.mit.edu/>, Strategic Initiatives
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Speakers will explore risks of digital platforms: further marginalizing
languages, spreading disinformation, and perpetuating power structures in
India and globally. Speakers will also describe new ways journalists can
work with digital knowledge institutions. Conversation will draw from the
Centre for Internet and Society’s Global Disinformation Index’s (GDI) study
into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India
<https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gdi-and-cis-torsha-sarkar-pr…>,
a forthcoming report on the State of the Internet’s Languages
<https://whoseknowledge.org/initiatives/state-of-the-internets-languages/>,
and Peter Kaufmann’s recent book, “ The New Enlightenment and the fight
to free knowledge
<https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gdi-and-cis-torsha-sarkar-pr…>
.”
Gunfire and Ground truth: Investigative Journalism Using Creative Commons
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February 15, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST
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Speaker: Cecília Oliviera
<https://shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/cecilia-oliveira/>,
Investigative
Journalist and founder of Fogo Cruzado <https://fogocruzado.org.br/>
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Cecília Oliviera will discuss developing and using crowd-sourcing on an
open platform as an investigative tool in journalism focused on drug and
arms trafficking. In 2016, frustrated with the lack of publicly available
data, she began mapping every shooting in Rio de Janeiro. This effort
turned into Fogo Cruzado, an open data platform on armed violence that is
spreading to every major city in Brazil.
CC licenses and Combatting Disinformation Campaigns
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March 3, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00am
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Speaker: Shalini Joshi, Executive Editor and co-founder of Khabar
Lahariya and Regional Program Officer at Meedan <https://meedan.com/>
(India)
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Speaker: Joel Abrams <joel.abrams(a)theconversation.com>, Director of
Digital Strategy and Outreach at The Conversation
<https://theconversation.com/us> (US)
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This discussion will explore how CC licenses increase information
sharing in global journalism. Speakers will share anecdotes from
Meedan’s The
Checklist <https://meedan.com/checklist>, a weekly roundup of global
misinformation news—open-source investigations, industry resources and
event information. Discussion will also target The Conversation
<https://theconversation.com/us>, a nonprofit network of 8 international
news sites publishing hundreds of useful articles of news and analysis each
week, all written by experts, in 4 languages, and all available under the
Creative Commons license, CC-BY-ND.
Free Online Training
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March 23, 2:00 pm-6:00 pm UTC/ 10:00 am-2:00 pm EDT
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Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> staff will provide free
training on the basics of copyright for journalists, how to best find and
reuse openly licensed resources such as research, photos, videos, music and
more! Come away from the training understanding the flexibilities within
copyright law that journalists can harness for better information sharing.
Journalists will also gain the practical tools and resource lists to take
advantage of open licensed content. All are welcome to join.
Register here
<https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons…>
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