The Open Heritage Foundation is an incorporated cultural organization that seeks to extend the reach of Open Movement Activities in the Global South and underrepresented communities with the aim of preserving intangible and non-intangibles cultures and heritages at the same time documenting of knowledge resources, initiating and supporting programs and international media campaigns with an emphasis on bridging the digital cultural divide of emerging communities on the internet.
What Key Priorities We Will Work On
We have started to collaborate and invite members and professional experts in various fields and Wikimedia projects from different regions and ethnic groups, marginalized people and allied from under-represented communities of the world. And identify with them what are the knowledge gaps that are not covered within the movement from emerging communities. Some of the key priorities we will invest on are:
Advocacy in the cultural heritage - Provide support to allied affiliates and groups from emerging communities for developing partnerships with interested cultural institutions.
Open Access - Open Access advocacy efforts with cultural and knowledge institutions and artists to help make knowledge free, and to help institutions contribute to Wikimedia.
Documentation of Heritage - Knowledge-curation for intangible heritage via global campaigns to add educational and cultural resources to Wikimedia projects.
Documentation - Sharing of expertise and knowledge base via developing resources that everyone in the movement can look into over time - to support the work of editors and pursue opportunities to free knowledge in their geographies for use in the projects.
Story Telling - Sharing success stories, case studies and challenges we encounter to form a knowledge base for intangible heritage from underrepresented communities.
Background and History
We have been working as an non incorporated association since 2018. Open Heritage Foundation is legally incorporated in India and is an affiliated Network member of Creative Commons Global Network since 2019
What We Currently Do
By early June 2020, our figures were
43 programs, events, campaigns and outreach activities organized
4110+ editors tracked during different campaigns
4400+ created articles during campaigns
29000 images on Wikimedia Commons around the world
We organize large-scale, international Wikimedia events to ensure for underrepresented groups.
In June 2020, the community is tracking over 4500 articles on its evaluation table and over 29,000 images of culture around different parts of the world.
