WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Reconsidering and recalibrating Wikimedia in an era of constant change

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Logo WikiIndaba colors ID : LIS Keynote Session: Reconsidering & Recalibrating Wikimedia in an era of constant change
Speakers : Collence T. Chisita Time block: Sunday 7 November 2021 Start : 10:00
Location : Room A Duration : 25 minutes
Description :

Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita (PhD- LIS, University of Pretoria) is a researcher, lecturer, author and editor currently based at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) in the Department of Information Systems. He has been working with different local and international organizations including CILIP, LIASA, ZIMLA, LIAZ, AFLIA, UbuntuNet Alliance (the regional Research and Education Network of Eastern and Southern Africa) and IFLA. Currently, Chisita is a Secretary for the IFLA -Indigenous Matters Section (IFLA-IMS) Chisita has presented papers at local and international conferences in Africa and abroad. Chisita has and continue to work with many universities inside and outside on matters relating to research, teaching and learning. He has collaborated with other researcher from the different IFLA Special interest groups on issues that affect libraries in the modern era. His areas of interest include, knowledge management, digital libraries, library ecosystems and information management. Chisita has written four books, journal articles, book chapters and produced conference papers and participated and presented on webinars relating to topical issues on libraries and related institutions and the emerging technologies

In this keynote session, he will share with African Wikimedians several thoughts from his experience that can be useful to enable African Wikimedians to develop the coverage of regional topics in Wikimedia Projects.

Themes : Outreach, Education and GLAM
Tags : Library and Information Science, Wikipedia, African Wikimedians, Practices
Notes : #WikiIndaba2021_LIS