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Global Open Initiative
Location	Global Online Community-based
Staff	9
Volunteers	198
Official language(s)	English
Other language(s)	Dagbani Twi Hausa
Key people	Hariet Bayel Emmanuel Yeboah
Mobile number	+233(0)207792629
Skype	GOIFoundation
Website	www.goifoundation.org
E-mail address	info@goifoundation.org
Mailing list	goifoundation-community@googlegroups.com
Telegram	GOI_Foundation
Whatsapp	GOI_Foundation
Twitter	GOIFoundation
Facebook	GOIFoundation
Instagram	goi_foundation
YouTube	Global Open Initiative
Mailing address	c/o Sadik Shahadu, P.O. Box CT 4570 Cantonment Accra, Ghana
Motto	Making Knowledge and data freely accessible to everyone

Mission

Our mission is to help groom the skills and talents of Ghanaian youths through volunteering. By empowering them to lead and contribute to open-source projects like Wikipedia, we provide a platform and opportunities for them to apply the knowledge they acquired from schools. We also equip them with skills, knowledge, and experiences that could be of great benefit to them career-wise. We do what we do because the Ghanaian educational system, due to its impractical nature, has failed to prepare graduates for the job market. We believe that aside from internships, there are many benefits that students and graduates can gain from volunteering their service to a good cause.

Objectives

• Organize training and workshops to educate the public on open data
• Organize training and workshops to educate the public on the use of open technologies
• Extend open activities to remote areas especially the three northern regions of Ghana

Activities

• Edit-a-thons
• Training Events
• Workshops
• Photowalks

History

• June 2018 First Corruption edit-a-thon, Wikipedia Ghana corruption editathons
• 2019-03-09 Second Art and Feminisim hackathon

Planned Activities

• Planning a series of Wikidata + Wikipedia Editathons as part of the Parliament_of_Ghana working group to organize information about Ghanaian parliamentarians. Following Grants:Project/Rapid/Masssly/Parliament of Ghana/Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, twelve editathons are planned between September 2019 to September 2020 to complete the organization of political data about Ghanaian MP's from 1950 to 2020.

• Planning a series of projects to organize Wikidata political data about legislators from across countries in the Global South (other than Ghana) as part of the broader Political_Data Initiative. Since MySociety has stopped doing this out from Wikidata, it has become necessary for another entity to continue this important work.

• As part of our Improving Local Language Wikipedias Initiative, we plan to organize pieces of training for language-based universities; first in Ghana, and then across Africa, to encourage the creation of local content for small language Wikipedias. In Ghana, we plan to upgrade incubating languages to a full Wikipedias, and contribute more content to the already existing Akan and Ewe Language Wikipedia. Two team members are again, scheduled to meet the Dagbani language faculty of the University of Education on August 31, 2019.

• We plan to expand offline access to Wikimedia projects in underrepresented communities, by assembling and donating IIAb devices during outreach to schools and community libraries with little or no access to the internet.

• We hold monthly online community meetings (last Saturday of the month), and share announcements on our WhatsApp platform. As of 2 January 2019, there are 151 people on our WhatsApp platform.

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