*During the Wikimedia Conference 2018, the Working Group “Roles &
Responsibilities” proposed “Power Dynamics” as a title instead. As power is
only a part of the broader conversation around global, regional and local
responsibilities and roles, and we wouldn’t want the group to only
concentrate on this aspect, the Strategy Core Team decided to keep the
original name. *
To me power dynamics gives a poor interpretation and sets up the work group
to focus as individual hierarchical building, rather than equity and
distribution of responsibilities
On 7 June 2018 at 17:47, Peter Southwood <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
wrote:
Roles and responsibilities may be a better term, It
has a meaning that is
more likely to be understood than "power dynamics", which frankly sounds
more like rocket science than what people in a group are expected to do.
Cheers,
Peter
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Dear Katherine,
Thank very much you for this update. I was working in the “role and
responsibilities” group in Berlin and the outcome was that we had decided
to rename it “power dynamics” if I recall correctly.
Now I see this name has not been used, so I feel a little surprized?
Kind regards,
Natacha / Nattes à chat
Le 7 juin 2018 à 03:36, Katherine Maher
<kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :
Dear all,
It’s been a while since I sent out the last movement strategy update. A
lot
has happened in the meantime, and I wanted to
give you a heads-up
regarding
an upcoming call for participation!
But first things first:
1. The report from the Wikimedia Conference Movement Strategy Track
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_
2018/Documentation/Movement_Strategy_track>
has been published[1]. It captures all the
conversations, insights and
outputs from three days of intense strategy work, so it’s a (quite) long
but very interesting read. It is meant to document the state of the
process
and to allow for a deep dive into it. It should
be especially valuable
for
those of you who did not have a chance to
participate in the conference
or
attended another conference track.
2. Based on WMCON outputs (and various conversations we’ve been having in
our movement for years), the core strategy team has mapped eight key
thematic areas
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
movement/2018-20/Working_Groups#What_are_the_key_thematic_areas%3F>
[2] -- and some initial guiding questions -- that
should to be answered
to
enable us to advance towards our strategic
direction. These areas
include:
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Resource Allocation & Revenue Streams
- Diversity
- Partnerships
- Capacity Building
- Community Health
- Technology
- Advocacy
3. The core team will be supporting the creation of Working Groups to
take
on these critical conversations. These working
groups will be asked to
assess the current situation of the thematic area, and obstacles and
opportunities. They’ll have access to all the relevant information
already
collected, and the chance to do further research
if needed. They’ll be
asked to identify the changes needed in movement structures and develop
concrete recommendations for the movement on how to ratify and implement
them.[3] An open call for working group members will go out to the
movement
this week -- please stay tuned for an update from
Nicole!
I also had the chance to present more about these plans at last week’s
Metrics Meeting. Please do take a look, either look it all up on the
Meta[3] or watch the video![4]
Cheers,
Katherine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_
2018/Documentation/Movement_Strategy_track
movement/2018-20/Working_Groups#What_are_the_key_thematic_areas%3F
movement/2018-20/Working_Groups
[4]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOaiU-v7PbE
(from minute 24:25)
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