Having just met Achal Prabhala at UCT in Cape Town, I am most interested in
participating in Wikimedia SA! I'm of Canadian origin, but based in South
Africa doing my masters in educational technologies at UCT. I work half
time with the Centre for Educational Technologies on the OpenContent OER
project which has been helping UCT academics create and share openly
licensed teaching and learning materials. I am an enthusiast and researcher
of open education/source/technology, networked learning, and all things
edtech.
In particular I am interested in how SA academics can contribute to
wikipedia, using wikipedia statistics to track and analyze south african
article activity and users, and building up the base of English SA
articles. I also see tremendous benefits in building up the articles in
other SA languages.
Michael Paskevicius
OER UCT Project
University of Cape Town
Centre for Educational Technology
Tel:+27(21) 650 3477
http://twitter.com/mpaskevi
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct
http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/oer
https://vula.uct.ac.za/portal/site/openuct