Fwd: Hack your Culture and Wikipedia - WikimediaZA

22 Jun 2020


      Dear all,
Anyone interested in joining me for further discussions here?
Regards,
Bobby Shabangu
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From: Kastner, Stefanie Stefanie.Kastner@goethe.de
Date: Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 16:04
Subject: Hack your Culture and Wikipedia
To: Bobby Shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com
Cc: Kgolo Lekoma kgolo.lekoma@credipple.com, Lethabo Sekhu <
lethabo.sekhu@credipple.com>
Dear Bobby,
I hope this message finds you well!
Besides “Decolonise the Internet” we are preparing at the moment a second
project that could be interesting for you.
The Goethe-Institut South Africa
https://www.google.com/maps/search/South+Africa+%0D%0A+Johannesburg+%0D%0A+119%0D%0A+Jan+Smuts+Avenue?entry=gmail&source=g
wants to organize a *cultural hackathon* under the title “Hack your
Culture” in September/October 2020. This cultural hackathon in
collaboration with different African partner institutions is based on the
idea of the project “Coding da Vinci” (https://codingdavinci.de/about/*)*
With its launch in Berlin, in 2014, *Coding da Vinci* has grown to become a
well-established part of the open cultural data landscape.
The long-term mission of *Coding da Vinci* is to create lasting structures
within which cultural institutions and interested sectors of *civil society*
can work together through *open data*.
What kind of *creative possibilities* can be realized if digitalized
cultural data is made freely available and reusable?
Digital accessibility of artifacts has the effect of changing the
relationship between cultural institutions and culturally interested
people: if the digital counterparts of physical originals can be copied, if
they can be modified, edited, and made available everywhere through the
internet, the visitor is empowered and can actively participate in the
creation of culture. Rather than just consuming knowledge, they have the
possibility to spread, enrich, re-contextualize, and work with it in order
to create new knowledge.
What could be your part in this?
We would like to ask if Wikimedia South Africa would be interested to
collaborate in the cultural hackathon we are organizing. Would you be
interested in providing us with open data, metadata or any other content
from your institution that is placed under an open license?
The data will then be used during a Hackathon - an event where participants
have a specific amount of time to develop *software applications or
visualizations with open data*.
We would be very happy to talk to you for further information! Would you
maybe be available during the week from 29th June on? If yes what day and
time would suit you best?
Best,
Stefanie
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Stefanie Kastner
Leiterin Information mit Regionalauftrag
Head of Information Services Sub-Saharan Africa
Library – Gamebox - Hub
Goethe-Institut South Africa
Johannesburg
119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood 2193
+27 11 5372949
stefanie.kastner@goethe.de
www.goethe.de/johannesburg
Twitter: @goethejoburg
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