Hi,
Thanks for the document. I've wrote in May a small report about Wikipedia and Covid-19 for a French committee about Fake news. Unfortunately it's in French ;)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_France_-_COVID-19.pdf
Best, Pyb
Le 2020-08-10 19:30, Anna Mazgal a écrit :
Lilli,
thanks so much for sharing and for driving the English version to completion. We will definitely make use of that.
Best wishes, Anna
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 6:15 PM Lilli Iliev
Lilli.Iliev@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi all,
COVID-19
reveals the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT and informational freedom for years to come. It will serve as a reference point for pointing out the MERIT OF VOLUNTARY WORK FOR WIKIPEDIA all over the world.
So WMDE decided to focus it's SUMMER POLICY
BRIEF on how Wikipedia helps people all over the world with vital and trusted medical information ("COVID-19: Wie Wikipedia uns durch unsichere Zeiten hilft") [1] in june and distributed it to 6 federal parliamentary comittees of relevance for free knowledge.
We now
had it translated to provide it to Wikimedians who might find it useful, e.g. for approaching policy makers in their local contexts:
"COVID-19: HOW WIKIPEDIA HELPS US THROUGH UNCERTAIN TIMES" [2]
OUR MAIN CALLS TO PARLIAMENTS AND GOVERNMENTS:
- support and
express appreciation for digital voluntary work (e.g. by implementing funding programmes)
- public authorities ought to provide access to
publicly funded data from administrative bodies, public institutions etc. in freely accessible and editable formats
- support secure legal
frameworks in this context
- support evidence-based approaches to
regulating online platforms (EU digital services Act)
Hope you
might find the policy brief useful and happy about any feedback!
best regards
Lilli
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