Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki loves SDGs

-- faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae WM-LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+ On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 20:26, Ad Huikeshoven ad@huikeshoven.org wrote: > > tl;dr Wikipedia can engage millions, billions of people to achieve the > Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 > > Wikimedians and Wikipedians around the world have been involved with > Wikimedia 2030 since 2015. The strategic direction is to build the > essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge. Back in 2015 a > total of 193 members of the United Nations agreed to the 17 Sustainable > Developments Goals to be reached by the year 2030. Last August many of you > were in Stockholm, Sweden for Wikimania. The theme this year was “Stronger > Together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development > Goals”.[1] > > Michael Edson, founder and director of UN Live, the Museum of the UN in > Kopenhagen, Denmark held a keynote and asked Wikipedia for help. The UN > isn’t able to reach millions, billions of people on its own to have them > work on achieving the SDGs.[2] Wikipedia reaches half a billion people each > month. Millions of people have contributed to Wikipedia. > > Of course Wikipedia can spread the knowledge about the SDGs and how to > solve them in each country, and in each language. We can make a very good > case for an “open access knowledge sharing project related to the > Sustainable Development Goals that uses Wikipedia as a tool”. A lot of > knowledge will have to be gathered locally about local solutions to local > problems. We as a free knowledge movement have done so succesfully in the > past. We can do succesfully now. > > The one big reason to step upto the challenge is in the vision of the > movement: “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely > share in the sum of all knowledge.” Imagine every single human having > access to how to solve each of the Sustainable Development Goals in their > locality, in their language.[3] > > Another reason is part of our mission: to empower and engage people around > the world to collect and develop educational content.[4] Might people > involved with the movement be able to educate people why and how to solve > global goals locally? > > Knowledge about SDGs is just a small subset of all knowledge. It would be a > big step for mankind to have exactly that knowledge available well before > the year 2030.[5] It won’t impede anyone to collect and share knowledge > outside that subset, however. > > To make it happen imagine having a small office with a handful dedicated > people in each country. People with the capacity to build partnerships with > NGO’s, universities, research institutions, government agencies, groups of > citizens who are already involved with the SDGs.[6] People with the > capacity to organize SDG themed writing contests and SDG themed > edit-a-thons with participants from interested parties.[7] > > As written above, it has been agreed to build the essential infrastructure > of the ecosystem of free knowledge. Why would it be worthwhile to invest 50 > million dollar a year to build such an infrastructure?[8] With those tiny > offices in each country we it can exactly be done what Michael Edson begged > us to do: get millions (or billions) of people working together on global > goals and share the knowledge they gathered. To connect people everywhere > and catalyze global effort toward accomplishing the Sustainable Development > Goals. > > The Wikimedia movement has the capacity to raise the necessary funds > through banners on Wikipedia on top of what is now already collected, and > alreadt spent each year.[9] After a long period - over four years - of > mainly inward looking activities of board and working groups, the time has > come to look outwards. The works of our movement have influence globally > and can have global impact. Not impact measured as number of articles, or > number of editors retained, but impact on the real social life of seven > billion people, by sharing knowledge how to end poverty, how to end hunger > and so on.[11] > > Imagine a world where there is no poverty and zero hunger; with good health > and well-being, quality education and full gender equality everywhere. > There is clean water and sanitation for everyone. Affordable and clean > energy has helped to create decent work and economic growth. Prosperity is > fueled by investments in industry, innovation and infrastructure, which > helped to reduce inequalities. Living in sustainable cities and > communities, and responsible consumption and production are healing our > world. Climate action has capped the warming of the planet, and life below > water is flourishing, and there is abundant diverse life on land. There is > peace and justice through strong institutions, and long term partnerships > for the goals have been built.[12] > > In the coming weeks I continue to have talks with people to get an “open > access knowledge sharing project related to the Sustainable Development > Goals that uses Wikipedia as a tool” or Wiki loves SDGs project started and > launched. People willing to get involved, please contact me through private > message. > > Next week will start a strategy sprint in Tunis, with members of working > groups present, the board of the WMF, chiefs of the WMF office and some > people of WMDE to finalize the recommendations for Wikimedia 2030. Have a > look at the SDGs and think about what you can do for the SDGs, and not what > the SDGs can do for you. > > Regards, > > Ad Huikeshoven > > [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania (Thank you, Wittylama) > [2] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2019_Keynote_address_%E2%8... > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vision > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mission > [5] https://www.sdgnederland.nl/sdg-moonshot/ > [6] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... > [7] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... > [8] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... > [9] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... > [10] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_... > [11] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_and_Evaluation/Logic_models > [12] https://www.thenewdivision.world/the-global-goals > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe