Grants:APG/Proposals/2016-2017 round 2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Proposal form
Proposal by The Centre for Internet and Society to support its annual plan with 180,000 USD.
CIS-A2K during the proposed plan will work towards conducting and supporting activities with 4 focus language areas and 3 thematic areas (see details). In an attempt to engage with emerging Indian Wikimedia communities and User groups, we have allocated resources for activities across non focus language areas as well. It is our attempt to contribute to the overall movement by increasing the reach of Wikimedia projects, understanding the diversity of Indian communities and facilitate content which is qualitative and reflects the diversity of Indian communities.
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A few terms used in the form:
FDC proposal form terms Wikimedia terms Learning & Evaluation terms
Overview[edit]
- 1. In order to support community review, please provide a brief description of your organization's work in the upcoming funding period.
In keeping with our mission to catalyze the growth of Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K puts forward a proposal having holistically incorporated the suggestions of the communities and the movement strategy of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). This proposal has been shaped by the feedback received during staff assessment of last year's proposal plan and FDC suggestions. This year, we plan to expand on our flagship programs such as Train-The-Trainer and MediaWiki Training (Wiki Technical Training) that aim to groom community and technical leadership across Indic Wikimedia communities. We endeavour to take a pan-Indian approach this year that brings Indic Wikimedians together. A2K believes that such an intervention of ideas and knowledge exchange platforms is the next big idea that Indian Wikimedia communities should be investing in. It would be our attempt to kick-start these activities in our Focus and non- Focus Language Areas with efficient follow-up mechanisms.
The A2K Request page is a one all-inclusive support structure that caters to all the needs of the communities and attempts to share the idea/program and learnings amongst the other Indic communities. In extensive consultations with community members, we have acknowledged the scope we hold for improvement of our work with each passing year. Even as we leverage our unique position in the free knowledge movement to enable global knowledge transfer, provide robust technical support and expand the footprint of the free knowledge movement in Indian language Wikipedias, we focus the core of our work as always at the community level through:
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Content Enrichment Activities
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Skill Building Activities
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Institutional Partnership
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GLAM Activities
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A2K team in alignment to the WMF vision and our strategic plan will be engaging in the following verticals (in alphabetical order):
These verticals of work will contribute towards Content Enrichment Activities, Skill Building Initiatives, Institutional partnerships and WEP Initiatives and GLAM activities that are described in detail in the proposal plan.
- 2. Name, fiscal year, and funding period.
- Legal name of organization: The Centre for Internet and Society
- Organization's fiscal year: 1 April – 31 March
- 12-month funding period requested: 1 July 2017 – 30 June 2018
- Currency requested: Indian Rupees (INR)
- Name of primary contact: Tanveer Hasan
- 3. Amount requested.
Table 1
| Currency requested | US$ | |
| Total expenses for the upcoming year | 12,454,000[1] | 186,810 |
| APG funding requested for the upcoming year | 12,000.000 | 180,000 |
| Amount of funding received from WMF for the current year | 10,500,000 | 153,148.07 |
- 4. How does your organization know what community members and contributors to online projects need or want? Does your organization conduct needs assessments or consult the contributors and volunteers most involved with its work?
- CIS-A2K strongly believes in the value of the Wikimedia movement that the community is "the biggest asset". CIS-A2K regularly conducts need-assessment surveys and provides special attention towards the suggestions and feedback of the community members. CIS-A2K conducts both online and offline surveys and tries to stay in constant touch with the community. In order to actively engage with the community members, CIS-A2K regularly responds to the feedback and concerns put forth by the community members.
- CIS-A2K has appointed Community Advocates for its Focus Language Areas in order to keep a finger on the pulse of the community and pay due attention to the specific requirements of the community. In addition to understanding the needs of the community, they are tasked with the responsibility of strategizing how best to address these concerns. They then propose the potential solutions on the Village Pump of the respective language Wikipedias for gathering consensus on the same. CIS-A2K attempts to incorporate and accommodate the suggestions of the community members. This is not only to ensure the democratization of the process but also to involve the community members at every step of the planning and implementation process.
- CIS-A2K also maintains a Requests page which actively encourages individuals and communities to request support for projects and communities related to Indic language Wikimedia. In order to bring about tangible impact of the needs of the community members, this year, we aim to narrow down on the specific technical needs of the community with the creation of a Technical Requests page. This page is dedicated to addressing the technical requests of the Indic language communities throughout the year. CIS-A2K hopes that a page devoted to addressing technical challenges would enable the speedy fixing of bugs, unresolved errors and other problems that are faced by the communities. In addition to this, our Global Engagement initiative for this year proposes a Wikmedia Deutschland inspired Technical Wishes session at our flagship MediaWiki Training event where community members would get to directly interact with technical experts from international Wikimedia chapters and affiliates.
- 5. Please provide a link to your organization's strategic plan, and a link to your separate annual plans for the current and upcoming funding periods if you have them.
Table 2
Completed fiscal year Current year Upcoming year Annual plan (including budget) July 2015 to June 2016 plan July 2016 to June 2017 plan July 2017 to June 2018 Community discussion around annual plan See here See here See here Annual report (including financial report) See here Not required. Not required. Strategic plan CIS-A2K/Work plan July 2015 - June 2016 July 2016 to June 2017 plan CIS-A2K/Strategic plan June 2016 - July 2018
Financials: current year[edit]
The purpose of this section is to give the FDC an idea of how your organization is receiving funds and spending funds toward your current plan. Your current funding period is the funding period now in progress (e.g. 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 for most organizations).
Table 2
Financials for the current funding period Revenues or expenses Planned (budgeted) Actual, until one month before the proposal due date Projected Currency requested US dollars Currency requested US dollars Currency requested US dollars Revenues (from all sources) 6,272,045
INR 10,500,000
91,509.13
153,195
10,700,000
INR 6,123,045
155,393
89,335.22
10,500,000
INR 10,700,000 [2]
153,195
156,113 [3]
Expenses 6,233,748
INR 10,500,000
90,950.38
153,195
10,700,000
INR 5,386,537
155,393
78,589.57
10,500,000
INR10,700,000 [4]
153,195
156,113 [5]
Programs: upcoming year's annual plan[edit]
This section is about your organization's programs. A program is a defined set of activities that share the same objectives and a similar theory of change. Please share the general goal of each program, and then list the specific objectives that the program will meet. Please do not include information about your organization's operating activities in this section. You may provide information about activities like administration, staff and board training, fundraising, governance, and internal IT in another section or in a supplementary document, but please do not include these activities here as programs.
- 1. For each program, and overall
- Include targets for each of the three shared measures for each program, and overall. If one or more of these required metrics are not relevant to any of your programs, please consult your program officer.
- Also choose at least two grantee-defined metrics to highlight in this section, and include targets for each of these grantee-defined metrics for each program, and overall. (Other program-specific metrics may be included in your program objectives, in the detailed program sections below.)
Table 3
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- Participants: The number of people who attend your events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.
- Newly registered: The number of participants that create new accounts on a Wikimedia project. These include users who register up to two weeks before the start of the event.
- Content pages: A content page is an article on Wikipedia, an item on Wikidata, a content page on Wikisource, an entry on Wiktionary, and a media file on Commons, etc. This metric captures the total number of content pages created or improved across all Wikimedia projects.
Grantee-defined metrics[edit]
1. Footprint Tracker: A2K team would like to track the number of outreach events (no one time activity will be included) that are organised by Indic Wikimedians with our support. It is essential that Indic WIkimedians devise programs, consultations and community meet-ups and outreach events that spread awareness related to Wikimedia projects. This metric will also be able to provide useful insights as to support garnered for Wikimedia projects by local bodies and interest shown by communities. Further this metric will help in devising efficient follow-up mechanisms and will avoid 'reinventing the wheel' regarding social events and needs assessment. A2K team would only count one footprint per city per project irrespective of the frequency of follow-up event or multiple venues for the event. This metric would utilise the geograpical distribution of Wikimedians in India and also provide an excellent opportunity for participants of TTT to expand the reach of Wikimedia projects in their communities.
2. Value of Bytes deleted: Increasing quality of articles and number of articles that have quality content has always been a priority for the A2K team. Our earlier WEP initiatives have been criticised by community members for addition of irrelevant and low quality content on to Wikimedia projects. As a learning from our the feedback received by the community and embracing a best practice of Telugu community A2K team will invest in improving the existing content on our Focus language projects. The deleting of data will be done after consultation of the community and only with the approval of the community. A2K would not be deleting any of the exisiting content but would initially work towards improving the article/content and only after attempts to improve the quality of the content have not yielded sufficient result will the deletion activity be suggested to the community members (for example tagging for deletion, prioritizing activity, Proofreading, etc.,).
| Metric | Expected outcome |
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| Participants | 3,440 |
| Newly registered | 1,730 |
| Content pages | 12,754 |
| Footprint tracker | 47 |
| Value of bytes deleted | 3,583,120 |
| Metric | Kannada | Odia | Marathi | Telugu | Bridging Gender Gap initiatives | Global Engagement | Skill Building initiatives |
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| Participants | 3,440 | ||||||
| Newly registered | 1,730 | ||||||
| Content pages | 12,754 | ||||||
| Footprint tracker | 47 | ||||||
| Value of bytes deleted | 3,583,120 bytes | ||||||
| Metric | Projected Target | Explanation |
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| Participants |
| Metric | Projected Target | Explanation |
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| Newly Registered |
| Metric | Projected Target | Explanation |
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| Content Pages |
| Metric | Projected Target | Explanation |
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| Footprint Tracker |
| Metric | Projected Target | Explanation |
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| Value of Bytes Deleted |
- 2. Please list your goals and objectives for each program. Please be sure your objectives meet all three criteria for each program
- The objectives listed are each SMART: specific, measurable, attainable and relevant, and include time-bound targets.
- Include both qualitative targets and quantitative targets, and remember to highlight your baseline metrics.
- Provide any additional information that is important to our understanding of this program. For example, you may include needs assessments, logic models, timelines, tables, or charts. Share how this program will contribute more broadly to movement learning, or explain how your program aligns with important Wikimedia priorities such as increasing participation and improving content on the Wikimedia projects.
Content Enrichment Activities
With four language areas and three initiatives proposed, CIS-A2K aims to stimulate more content creation in the communities. This year, we are not only going to expand but to diversify and enrich the coverage of Indic Wikimedia projects. The team and the communities will strive to bring in both localized and internationally prominent topics to bridge the content gaps while inviting new editors of different background and interests to write on topics of their expertise and focus.
Enriching the content itself goes hand in hand with the broader reach of volunteers and partnership establishment. In CIS-A2K's work plan for July 2017 - June 2018, more focus has been put on expanding the regional coverage of our program activities, collaboration with students and researchers in various academic fields, making the community more inclusive and welcoming for people of different gender identities, as well as encouraging engagement in a variety of Wikiprojects. By broadening the regional, demographic, and subject disciplinary scope of our work, CIS-A2K will attempt to carry out various program and events that would benefit the communities and yield more value in the Wikimedia projects.
Goal
To enrich the content on Indic language Wikimedia projects so that a wider variety of local topics and subjects of interest can be explored and better covered
Objectives
- Establish institutional partnership with colleges and departments in different disciplines; hold workshops, edit-a-thons, or WEP in the institutions
- Collaborate with NGOs working on local social issues to gather resources and conduct edit-a-thons on localized topics
- Increase gender-related pages through gender gap bridging edit-a-thons and writing contests
- Provide support to help communities get involved in global initiatives and national (cross-community) content generation activities (edit-a-thons, photo-thons, etc.)
- Connect the GLAM partners to local Wikimedian communities and help facilitate edit-a-thons and workshops that can make use of the resources available
- Negotiate with GLAM, education institutions, and organizational partners for resource re-licensing, digitization, and donation to Commons and Wikisource
- Workshops on different Wikimedia projects such as Wikisource (digitization and proofreading) and Wikidata
Targets
- About 50 Edit-a-thons organized in the local communities (including cross-community edit-a-thons and those under global initiatives)
- Hold photo-walk and photo-thons to add over 1000 images onto Wikipedia articles
- Over 2000 new articles created through the community activities and events
- Over 2000 articles improved on Indic language Wikipedias
- Over 100,000 Wikisource folios uploaded and over 5000 proofread
Skill Building Activities
CIS-A2K feels that skill-building activities and initiatives are important to empower a Wikimedia community. Skill-building activities has been one of our top priorities. This year we are proposing to conduct and support various skill-developement workshops, and activities. These workshops are or will be conducted based on communities' need, request, and consensus, and will be of both national, state, and city-level. We have plans to involve expert Indic Wikimedians as resource person. We also plan to collaborate with or seek suggestions from other important Wikimedia chapters (eg. Wikimedia Deutschland).
- Goal
To conduct and support Wiki skill-developement activities and and strengthen individual Wikimedians, and the communities as a whole, and create and grow leadership (outreach, tech).
- Objectives
- Groom leadership skills among Indic Wikimedians by conducting workshop like Train the Trainer;
- Grooming tech leadership skill among Indic Wikimedians by conducting workshop like
- Conducting Wikimedia Conference India 2018
- Conducting regional workshops
- Powering (financially and non-financially) community initiated Wikipedia workshops and other Wiki-events
- Targets
- Conduct 3 national-level Wiki-workshops (TTT, MWT, Wikimedia Conference India)
- Train-the-Trainer: a Wiki-workshop with an objective to groom leadership skills among Indic Wikimedians. Involve at least 18 Indic Wikimedians from 8 communities. At least 4 ideas planned or discussed during the workshop will be taken forward/supported.
- MediaWiki Training (or Wiki Technical Training): A workshop discussing MedaiWiki, tools related to MediaWiki, Wikipedia and other sister projects, scripts, gadgets etc. We expect participation of at least 14 Indic Wikimedians from 6 communities.
- Wikimedia Conference India 2018: Inspired by Wikimedia Conference, CIS-A2K proposes to conduct Wikimedia India Conference 2018, as an idea-exchange and knowledge-sharing platform. We expect participation of the representatives of Wikimedia India Chapter; Wikimedia User Groups in India; experienced Indic Wikimedians, WMF Staff, CIS-A2K representatives.
- Wikidata workshops: In the last few years, CIS-A2K has grown to be a project of immense interest for global and also Indic Wikimedians. Last year, we had separate session on Wikidata in our Mini MWT, and also during the some other workshops. This year also, CIS-A2K proposes to further promote and conduct workshops on Wikidata (introduction, lable-a-thon, creating lables, items, properties, using Wikidata tools etc. This yea CIS-A2K will include Wikidata sessions in the technical workshop such as MediaWiki Training, mini MediaWiki Training, and will also conduct separate Wikidata workshops.
- Mini TTT and MWT 4-5 mini (regional) TTT and MWT in different parts of India. 2-3 mini TTT and MWT workshops for Focus Language Area communities. 1-2 workshops for non-Focus Language Area communities.
- Regional workshops: At least 10 regional Wiki-workshops will be conducted.
- Involving at least 65 active Wikimedians in various skill-building activities from different Indic Wikimedia communities.
- Involving at least 90 individuals
- CIS-A2K regularly provides support to Indic-language Wikimedia communities. This year we expect to support at least 24 community-driven initiatives from CIS-A2K request page.
Institutional Partnership
Wikimedia projects in India face two kinds of major challenges in the present situation i.e Reach and Collaboration.
While the English Wikipedia project has the largest reach, the Indian language Wikipedias and sister project have been barely able to scratch the surface. While awareness of the project is the primary hurdle the non availability of collaborators and support structures to engage with Wikimedia projects is a major roadblock as well.
CIS-A2K has been able to engage institutional partners from different backgrounds (educational, cultural, research, government and non government organisations) in collaborating with us to spread the reach of Wikimedia projects in the Focus Language Area. Many of our initiatives were imagined as long term collaborations with A2K and the participating institutions sharing not just vision and ideas but also resources and skills. However this has been an area of learning for the A2K team and we would like to during this proposal year build viable and sustainable partnerships that will help the A2K team and the larger Indic communities to collaborate and implement various programs and ideas for the benefit of their volunteers.
- Goal
- Build sustainable partnerships
- Reimagine our existing partnerships (Content sharing, Educational Institutions and Venue Partnerships) for achieving higher RoI.
- Facilitating building of partnerships or working arrangements across the country
- Aiming to increase resources available for Wikimedia projects in India
- Objectives
A2K has realised that managing expectations is a crucial factor in embarking on a productive institutional partnership. Institutions have the tendency of playing the role of a sleeping partner in our collaborative activities and the Wikimedian communities and A2K team end up sharing the burden of achieving the impact/goal or target that was agreed in the initial stage. To overcome such difficulties A2K would like to invest in like minded organisations and discuss in detail regarding expectations from the partnership and agree on similar objectives.
A2K team has had success in initiating institutional partners for a collaborative activity involving Wikimedia projects. It has however not been able to build a follow-up activity or further engage the same institution with a different activity. By engaging with local communities and volunteers we would like to reimagine these partnerships and open it ip for all volunteers for activities and meet-up.
A2K would like to leverage the influence and goodwill of CIS and its well wishers to provide institutional support for local Wikimedians across the country. Many institutions do not engage with individual Wikimedians for the lack of affiliations. A2K would like to support these conversations and engagements and shape the partnership so that the local communities can have regular meeting spaces and window for resources.
CIS-A2K has observed that it is not only the Wikimedia communities and A2K who are committed and working towards making knowledge resources open, cultivating open knowledge resources and encouraging volunteers in building skills. A2K would like to partner with both Government run organisations and private corporations sharing similar goals to draw on in-kind support and also attempt to secure external funding for travel, outreach and support for our volunteers.
- Targets
- One initial level of Partnership and Collaboration with a partner institution across all Indic language communities.
- Increasing In-kind support for Volunteer communities.
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National Wikipedia Education Review Program at Christ University -
Woman's day Edit-a-thon at Christ University
GLAM
With a growing interest in GLAM related activities each year from the Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K plans to integrate GLAM activities and outreach more widely across our Focus Language and Non- Focus Language Areas this year. We aim to tap into the strengths that each language or region provides by working closely with the community and their specific needs. Additionally, these GLAM activities are being incorporated into the three non-language verticals: skill-building, global engagement and bridging the gender gap. This helps us target communities of interest with programs like Wikimedian in Residence. This enables the publishing of content from the GLAM institutions onto Wikipedia. However, in understanding the difficulties of working with Indian galleries, libraries, museums and archives, we seek to improvise on activities we have conducted in the past such as photo-walks, digitization sprints, etc. In programmatic terms, we would attempt to explore possible collaborations with local institutions that would be interested in re-licensing their archives or materials under free licences. In movement terms, we would be bridging the gap with regards to collaborating with communities of interest. Within these two components, CIS-A2K aims to tap into the global guidance these projects could receive from our engagement with international Wikimedia chapters and affiliates.
Goal
- To combine language and non-language verticals in partnering with like-minded institutions in order to help Indic Wikimedians enrich the quality of their work on Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and other Wiki projects.
Objectives
- Continuing to tap into the individual strengths of communities for GLAM related activities by actively collaborating with the community through needs assessment.
- Partnering with institutions that are willing to explore the world of free and open knowledge and bringing their content onto Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, etc.
- Incorporating global initiatives such as Wikimedian in Residence into our programs in order to cultivate community leadership and strengthen institutional partnerships.
- Engaging with communities of interest through programs like Wikimedians Walk where Wikimedians will interact with a subject expert and use the information, images, references to enrich articles.
- Conduct resource exchange programs with libraries and archives in order to create a digital/ physical resource centre for language communities
Targets
- Involving at least 100 individuals and 50 active Wikimedians
- At least 12 new GLAM activities across our Focus Language Areas and 4 activities across non- FLAs. In total we expect to conduct or support at least 16 GLAM initiatives this year.
- Upload at least 1200 encyclopedic images on Wikimedia Commons
- The uploaded images will be used in at least 500 content pages across all Wikimedia projects(Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, etc.)
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St. Aloysius Chapel, Mangalore, interior view -
A sculpture at Sagara, Karnataka
Staff and contractors: upcoming year's annual plan[edit]
- 1. Please describe your organization's staffing plan or strategy here, and provide a link to your organization's staffing plan or organogram if you have one.
- CIS-A2K appoints employees based on program need, and community suggestion/consultation. CIS-A2K would like to appoint a Community Advocate for Kannada Wikimedia project works. CIS-A2K would also work with an intern/staff for our Bridging Gender Gap project. The appointment of Community Advocate for Kannada Wikimedia projects will be done after consultation with Kannada Wikimedia Community.
- 2. List of staff by department or function.
- You can use this table (or substitute your own list) to show us the number of FTEs (fulltime equivalents) for each department or function, where one person working at 100% time would be counted as 1.0. We need this information about the total number of staff (FTEs) you plan to have by the end of the current funding period, and staff you plan to have by the end of the upcoming funding period.
Table 4
FTEs Department or function End of current funding period End of upcoming funding period Explanation of changes Program Director 1 1 Sunil Abraham, the Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society, will remain our Program Director Program Manager 1 1 Tanveer Hasan will take the responsibility of Program Manager this year Sr. Program Officer 1 1 Program Officer 1 2 Community Advocates 4 5 Other than the 4 current Community Advocate (CA), we expect to hire one CA for Kannada community Intern 1 1 For bridging gender gap research. Total (should equal the sum of the rows): 9 11 1 Kannada Language community advocate, and 1 intern to be hired
Table 4 notes or explanation of significant changes:
- 3. How much does your organization plan to spend on staff by the end of the current funding period, in currency requested and US dollars?
- 6,838,792.56(INR) or 102,581.88(USD)
- 4. How much does your organization plan to spend on staff by the end of the upcoming funding period, in currency requested and US dollars?
- We expect that CIS-A2K's staff costs, during the work plan year 2017-2018, will be around: 3,865,512.1 INR or 57,982.68 USD
Organogram
This is the organizational structure of the CIS-A2K team. It serves to reflect:
- That while the work is structured as such, work of the team comes from the community;
- Impact of staff transition and subsequent change in staffing strategy;
- Re-shaping the allocation of funds
It is to be noted that this is not a work flow chart that describes the work(consultation, implementation, et al) of the community advocates or any of the other team members.
Financials: upcoming year[edit]
Detailed budget: upcoming year[edit]
- Please link to your organization's detailed budget showing planned revenues and expenses for the upcoming funding period (e.g. 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017). This may be a document included on this Wiki (Meta) or a publicly available spreadsheet.
- Please see the detailed budget for CIS-A2K's 2016-2017 work plan here.
Revenues: upcoming year[edit]
Please use this table to list your organization's anticipated revenues (income, or the amount your organization is bringing in) by revenue source (where the revenue is coming from) in the upcoming funding period (e.g. 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017).
- Use the status column to show if this funding is already guaranteed, if you are in the process of requesting funding, or if you are planning to request funding at a later time.
- Please include in-kind donations and resources in this table, as applicable, and use the status column to show that they are in-kind resources.
- Do not include money you plan to draw from your reserves during the upcoming funding period.
Table 5
Anticipated revenues for the upcoming funding period Revenue source Currency requested US dollars Status (e.g. guaranteed, application)
Wikimedia Foundation 12,000,000 180,000 Proposal and work plan submitted to Wikimedia Foundation Telangana Government, India 2,000,000 30,000 Discussion started, work-plan to be submitted Total revenues (should equal the sum of the rows): 14,000,000 210,000 -
Table 5 notes: If your organization has significant funding other than FDC funds, please note how those funds will be used.
Operating reserves: current and upcoming years[edit]
Please note that there is a policy that places restrictions on how much FDC funding your organization can use to build its operating reserves. If you would like to use FDC funding to for your organization's reserves, you must note that here. You will not be able to decide to allocate FDC funding from this grant to your reserves at a later date.
- 1. What is your plan for maintaining, building, or spending your reserves in the current year and the upcoming funding period? Please use the table below to show the amounts in your reserves at the beginning, year-to-date, and end of your current year, and the amount you plan to have in your reserves by the end of the upcoming funding period.
In 2016-2017 work plan year, CIS-A2K did not use FDC fund for operating reserve. This year also we are not going to reserve any fund for the purpose.
Table 6
Year Year start Year start (US) Year-to-date Year-to-date (US) Year end Year end (US) Current year (e.g. 2017) N. A. N. A. N. A. N. A. N. A. N. A. Upcoming year (e.g. 2018) - - - - N. A. N. A.
- 2. How much FDC funding is your organization requesting to add to your reserves in the upcoming funding period? If you are not requesting any FDC funding to add to your reserves in the upcoming funding period, you can write zero.
- We are not requesting any fund to add to our reserves.
Expenses: upcoming year's annual plan[edit]
- 1. Expenses by program (excludes staff and operations).
- Program expenses are the costs associated specifically with your organization's programs, and do not include operating expenses or staff salaries, which will be described in separate tables. Program expenses may be the costs of an event, the costs of outreach materials specific to a program, budgets for microgrants and reimbursements, or technical costs associated with specific programs, for example. The programs listed in this table should correspond to the programs you have listed in the programs section of this proposal form.
Table 7
Budget for FLA Currency requested US dollars Skill Building Initiatives 553,750 8,306.25 Content Enrichment 581,750 8,726.25 Wikipedia Education Program 244,750 3,671.25 GLAM activities 274,750 4,121.25 Budget for General Support and Service to the Movement in India Skill Building Initiatives 1,764,250 26,193.75 Content Enrichment 1,514,250 22,713.75 Wikipedia Education Program 749,250 11,238.75 GLAM activities 1,294,250 19,413.75 Total program expenses (should equal the sum of the rows) 6,977,000 104,655
- 2. Total expenses. Please use this table to summarize your organization's total expenses overall.
- These are divided into three categories: (1) staff expenses from Table 4 (including expenses for staff working on both programs and operations), (2) expenses for programs from Table 7 (does not include staff expenses or operations expenses), and (3) expenses for operations (does not include staff expenses or program expenses). Be sure to check the totals in this table to make sure they are consistent with the totals in the other tables you have submitted with this form. For example, your total program expenses excluding staff will be equal to the total in Table 7, while your total staff expenses will be equal to the total in Table 4 and your total expenses will be equal to the total in Table 1.
Table 8
Expense type Currency requested US dollars Program expenses (total from Table 7, excludes staff) 6,977,000 104,655 Operations (excludes staff and programs) 400,000 6,000 Upcoming staff total expenses (from Table 4) 3,865,512.1 57,982.68 Total expenses (should equal the sum of the rows) 11,242,512.1 168,637.68
Table 8 notes:
Verification and signature[edit]
Please enter "yes" or "no" for the verification below.
- The term “political or legislative activities” includes any activities relating to political campaigns or candidates (including the contribution of funds and the publication of position statements relating to political campaigns or candidates); voter registration activities; meetings with or submissions and petitions to government executives, ministers, officers or agencies on political or policy issues; and any other activities seeking government intervention or policy implementation (like “lobbying”), whether directed toward the government or the community or public at large. General operating support through the FDC may not be used to cover political and legislative activities, although you may make a separate grant agreement with the WMF for these purposes.
I verify that no funds from the Wikimedia Foundation will be used
for political or legislative activities except as permitted by a grant agreementYes
Please sign below to complete this proposal form.
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Please sign here once this proposal form is complete, using four tildes. Lahariyaniyathi (talk) 19:27, 1 April 2017 (UTC)