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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Innovate in Free Knowledge | UNLOCK the power of collaboration!
      (Todd Allen)


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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:52:46 -0600
From: Todd Allen <toddmallen@gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Innovate in Free Knowledge | UNLOCK the
        power of collaboration!
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So, what is this actually intended to do?

Regards,

Todd Allen

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 07:42 Kannika Thaimai <kannika.thaimai@wikimedia.de>
wrote:

> Dear Movement members,
>
> The innovation program UNLOCK will soon enter its third edition. At UNLOCK
> [1], we support people and communities who are working on new ideas,
> products and services for Wikimedia and free knowledge that address gaps in
> knowledge equity. Participating teams will benefit from tailored coaching
> and mentoring, peer-to-peer exchange and collaboration, access to experts
> from the free knowledge community and beyond, and – where required – a
> scholarship.
>
> For the 2022 edition, we are proud to announce that the program will be
> implemented in a collaborative manner as Wikimedia Deutschland and
> Wikimedia Serbia are joining forces. Besides this cross-regional and
> cross-affiliate collaboration, we will also partner with Impact Hub
> Belgrade – an organization from the innovation ecosystem [2].
>
> We will direct our geographical focus on the German-speaking as well as on
> the Western Balkan region. This means that applications are open to project
> teams from the following countries: Germany and Switzerland (Austria tbc),
> as well as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern
> Macedonia and Serbia. The program language is English in order to enable
> exchange and create synergies among the cross-regional project teams. In
> April 2022 we will kick-off the application phase for UNLOCK 2022 and will
> share more details about it soon.
>
> While Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Serbia and Impact Hub Belgrade will
> jointly lead the implementation of the program, Wikimedia communities in
> the Western Balkan region as well as social organizations outside of the
> movement will also be involved, which will strengthen the position of
> Wikimedia in the knowledge ecosystem and further increase the presence of
> Wikimedia in the fields of innovation. We hope to establish a collaboration
> from which all involved parties can mutually benefit and empower each
> other.
>
> Our work is driven by the Movement Strategy and there are three ways in
> which UNLOCK directly contributes to the implementation of it:
>
>    1. UNLOCK provides a support environment for innovations and
>    innovators to grow, it encourages and invests in people and communities,
>    who are exploring and building solutions that make knowledge accessible in
>    various formats or that support diverse modes of consumption and
>    contribution (recommendation 9 [3]);
>    2. UNLOCK seeks to collaborate with stakeholders from regional social
>    innovation ecosystems, such as innovation hubs, and integrate their
>    resources. This will help to diversify and enrich the movement as well as
>    to strengthen local and regional capacities of Wikimedia communities and
>    leaders through sharing experiences. Forging partnerships will also provide
>    learning opportunities for us as a movement, on how to collaborate with
>    people and institutions that are not from the immediate open knowledge
>    movement (recommendation 6 [4]);
>    3. UNLOCK should evolve into something that ultimately becomes freely
>    adaptable, reusable and changeable depending on the geographic, cultural
>    and economic context. We seek to pilot it in an area with communities that
>    are still emerging, and/or marginalized – focusing on those who ultimately
>    should co-create and benefit from innovations. This process of adaptation,
>    or better, contextualization – a central Movement Strategy principle [5] –
>    is an area where we as a movement still have much to test and to learn.
>
> We are more than happy to engage in conversations about how to “innovate
> in free knowledge” and are eager to hear additional perspectives,
> insights, and feedback from across the movement related to the
> contextualization of programs like UNLOCK. Please also reach out to me
> directly to explore ways to take the conversation forward.
>
> For further questions about UNLOCK 2022, please feel free to directly
> contact us – Ivana (Wikimedia Serbia) and Kannika (Wikimedia Deutschland).
>
> All the best
>
> Kannika & Ivana
>
> [1] https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/
>
> [2] https://belgrade.impacthub.net/
>
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Innovate_in_Free_Knowledge
>
> [4]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Invest_in_Skills_and_Leadership_Development
>
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles#Contextualization
> --
>
> Kannika Thaimai (she/her)*Innovation Engine - Strategy Lead*>> WMDE innovation engine strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Innovation_Engine>
> >> UNLOCK Accelerator <https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/>
>
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