I hope this email finds you well. This is to follow-up on our conversation in Kazan City Hall on 6 September 2018 during UNESCO ASPNET National Coordinators meeting, dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of the movement. I was one of the simultaneous interpreters working at the event, speaking to you in my capacity as a local volunteer of Wikimedia movement.

Currently our interaction with UNESCO is developing in the framework of WikiProject:United Nations, but I see other avenues for cooperation as well. We have a strong Wikipedia Education Program globally, as well as some examples thereof in the Russian Federation. As a national chapter, we have recently completed Open Library Project funded by the Russian Presidential Grants Foundation, now applying for a similar one to introduce Russia's secondary & vocational schools, as well as universities in various regions to related opportunities in Education.

Hands-on education using IT is very important tool to promote media & information literacy, so it was a please to discover that UNESCO IITE is actually located in Moscow & it will be so easy for us in Russia to develop this cooperation, whenever circumstances will allow.

P.S. I'm copying this to Ms. Sabine Detzel, ASPNET National Coordinator for Russia contact email, as well as to my colleagues in Wikimedia Russia.

Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan