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description"video in Introduction to Partnership Building (computer-graded exercises) - Basics of partnership building for Wikimedia volunteers, with computer-graded exercises."
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subtitle-3670-10960-1"Let's reflect on last week's assignments, starting with assignment number four, which"
subtitle-10960-17290-2"was about stakeholder mapping and listing of potential partnerships."
subtitle-18160-25120-3"So starting with some feedback that I gave multiple learners, past learners of the"
subtitle-25120-31960-4"course is that sometimes they only gave the potential partnerships table but not the"
subtitle-31960-34150-5"stakeholder mapping or vice versa."
subtitle-34630-39970-6"I remind you that it's very important to carefully read the assignment and make sure"
subtitle-39970-45580-7"you understand all the deliverables, all the required work that you're supposed to submit."
subtitle-47200-52780-8"And some of you provided partnership sketches that left out the benefit to both"
subtitle-52780-58210-9"sides and only focused on the benefit to Wikimedia, or maybe only on what the partner"
subtitle-58210-60820-10"is giving or doing, but not what they get."
subtitle-61420-67990-11"So I remind you that partnerships have to give benefit to both parties, to both sides,"
subtitle-67990-69850-12"or to each side if it's more than two."
subtitle-70630-74620-13"So make sure you document this somehow, even in the partnership sketch."
subtitle-74650-76690-14"Very hand-wavy, very general."
subtitle-76690-78130-15"But it needs to be there."
subtitle-79470-85350-16"So let's take an example of a stakeholder map for a group that is focused on education"
subtitle-85350-90180-17"programs, that is on programs where students write Wikipedia articles."
subtitle-90870-98310-18"And this learner has identified these stakeholders, the national government of"
subtitle-98310-102540-19"their country, the Ministry of Education, which would have a lot of influence because"
subtitle-102540-107910-20"they set the national curriculum and they determine what are the conditions under which"
subtitle-107910-112080-21"you can enter a university classroom, etc., etc.."
subtitle-113400-117840-22"The Wikimedia Foundation is highly influencing, presumably as a funder and maybe"
subtitle-117840-120780-23"as a source of some of the materials."
subtitle-121200-126690-24"This particular person thought that they could involve, Creative Commons and Mozilla"
subtitle-126690-128340-25"and a local Linux group."
subtitle-129030-134490-26"I'm not sure what how they exactly saw these groups being involved in the education"
subtitle-134490-136390-27"program, but it doesn't matter."
subtitle-136410-143160-28"The point is that in their view of their ecosystem, they thought that these groups"
subtitle-143160-144180-29"could be involved."
subtitle-144720-148860-30"That may or may not be the case for you in your education program, but that's fine."
subtitle-148860-151530-31"This is a list of what this person sees."
subtitle-152520-154500-32"The general public would be affected by this program."
subtitle-155610-159450-33"The students who will do the writing will be highly affected by the program."
subtitle-159450-163680-34"The teachers are affected by the program, but also highly influencing the program"
subtitle-163680-168030-35"because without their goodwill and cooperation, there would be no program."
subtitle-168570-171570-36"Unemployed graduates are affected here."
subtitle-171570-175980-37"In this particular case, this person is thinking about improving the employment"
subtitle-175980-181950-38"prospects of graduates through building their digital skills, etc."
subtitle-182460-185190-39"And so that's why they're enlisting unemployed graduates here."
subtitle-185220-190890-40"Of course, universities are influencing and affected by this program and a certain"
subtitle-190890-194440-41"telecommunications company is said to be influencing here."
subtitle-194460-196380-42"Again, the details don't matter."
subtitle-196380-198630-43"Maybe it's for data packages or whatever."
subtitle-199290-206310-44"It's just an example to help you imagine your stakeholder map if you had trouble."
subtitle-206340-207810-45"Here's a different example."
subtitle-207810-215970-46"This one is about a group that is focused on World Heritage, on covering content about"
subtitle-215970-221750-47"World Heritage sites, and it's presented as a table."
subtitle-221760-223510-48"I've anonymized it a bit."
subtitle-223510-227610-49"You can see that of course the user group members themselves are highly involved."
subtitle-227820-233670-50"And then for example, international institutions working on world heritage sites"
subtitle-234000-236730-51"such as UNESCO and ICCROM etc."
subtitle-236820-243770-52"are influencing or highly influencing this project or work."
subtitle-245280-250140-53"Let's skip a bit maybe educational institutions in relation with World Heritage,"
subtitle-250170-253890-54"like architecture schools and National Institute of Archeology and Heritage"
subtitle-253890-256320-55"Sciences, Departments of History and Universities."
subtitle-257010-263430-56"All of these could be affected by our work on World Heritage, etc., etc."
subtitle-263430-266470-57"We won't go through the whole table."
subtitle-266470-275760-58"Again, the point is to help you exercise your creative juices and show you some of the"
subtitle-275760-282330-59"kinds of stakeholders that are imaginable for certain groups in certain contexts, so"
subtitle-282330-284700-60"that you would imagine your own."
subtitle-285630-288420-61"Here's another version of stakeholder mapping."
subtitle-288870-294300-62"This one is question based, and it's for a group that is focused on education programs."
subtitle-294300-299070-63"And you can see that it takes these questions that I proposed in class, "who is"
subtitle-299070-303450-64"out there affecting our mission and our work?", the municipality and the Wikimedia"
subtitle-303450-304620-65"Foundation."
subtitle-304620-309460-66""Who are our existing allies?" The same plus some teachers and professors."
subtitle-309460-311970-67""Who could be allies but aren't yet?"
subtitle-312240-313390-68"Who needs convincing?"
subtitle-313410-318150-69"Who could be brought on board?" Other teachers and professors who are not yet"
subtitle-318510-320100-70"allies of this program."
subtitle-320130-326040-71"University students themselves are not perhaps yet sold on the idea."
subtitle-326070-329670-72"School administration staff, other wiki clubs in the country."
subtitle-330120-333740-73"And finally, who are our antagonists?"
subtitle-333740-335760-74"Who might be against this program?"
subtitle-336120-338770-75"And here there's an interesting stakeholder."
subtitle-338790-341370-76"Anyone who had a bad experience with Wikipedia."
subtitle-343100-345950-77"And that might be vandals who are blocked."
subtitle-345980-350540-78"It might be people who were trying to legitimately contribute but had content"
subtitle-350540-352610-79"reverted without a good experience of feedback."
subtitle-353840-358040-80"Maybe they were warned and they didn't notice the warning and then they got blocked"
subtitle-358190-359690-81"or they didn't read the fine print or whatever."
subtitle-360200-366440-82"Subjectively, they had a bad experience, and now they're really angry at Wikipedia and"
subtitle-366740-371990-83"they may not be willing to entertain the thought of cooperating with it."
subtitle-372590-375980-84"And then there are people who are ideologically opposed to free knowledge."
subtitle-375980-380510-85"Maybe they're invested in some commercial solution or whatever."
subtitle-381110-387980-86"So just another way of laying out stakeholder mapping and moving to the second"
subtitle-387980-397100-87"part of this assignment, which was listing potential partners and in a very, very"
subtitle-397100-402710-88"hand-wavy and unaccountable way, just sketching what might be a partnership with"
subtitle-402710-407050-89"them without going into any of the real world constraints or anything."
subtitle-407060-411200-90"What might we dream of partnering with these partners about?"
subtitle-411200-413930-91"What would the partnership consist of?"
subtitle-414440-421700-92"And we have here at the top a list of three potential partnerships from that World"
subtitle-421700-422810-93"Heritage group."
subtitle-423050-429680-94"And they say, "okay, we might partner with our local UNESCO office, in which we would"
subtitle-429680-435560-95"provide assistance to digitize content, and they would provide the content." You notice"
subtitle-435560-440100-96"that it says what we will do, what they will do, but not what the benefit is."
subtitle-440120-442190-97"So this is an example of leaving out the benefit."
subtitle-442880-444680-98"Of course we can say, well, it's pretty implicit."
subtitle-445190-448460-99"I mean, they provide content, which means it's a benefit to us."
subtitle-448460-453860-100"We get free content to share with the world, etc., but it's worth spelling out: why is it"
subtitle-453860-455690-101"good for us? Why is it good for them?"
subtitle-456020-460940-102"And this particular learner said, okay, we think that impact would be high because they"
subtitle-460940-466850-103"would provide content that maybe only UNESCO has and the likelihood is high, maybe because"
subtitle-466850-471200-104"we already have some good relations with our local UNESCO office, etc."
subtitle-471920-474680-105"Obviously these are subjective assessments."
subtitle-475460-480530-106"The second one is about the library of Examplia, and in that case we will provide"
subtitle-480530-485150-107"the library staff with training and they will provide bibliographic references and"
subtitle-485150-487580-108"space to organize editathons."
subtitle-487670-495230-109"Again, it focuses on what each side does without spelling out the benefit, but we can"
subtitle-497810-500230-110"infer it quite easily."
subtitle-500240-505730-111"In this case the impact would be medium because this is more limited."
subtitle-505730-507590-112"I mean, it's a certain event, certain training."
subtitle-508340-516800-113"It's not a vast release of tons of content, but still that's good progress on our"
subtitle-516800-522190-114"mission. So the impact is medium and the likelihood is again high because we have a"
subtitle-522200-524690-115"good relationship with them or good contacts, etc.."
subtitle-524750-528530-116"Moving on to the table at the bottom, again, these are just examples."
subtitle-528530-530030-117"The details don't terribly matter."
subtitle-530030-535100-118"The goal is to show you the variety of things that are conceivable."
subtitle-535640-542270-119"In this case, we have a small country and the partnerships that we're talking about"
subtitle-542270-546980-120"here are focused on tourism, on promoting tourism to the country."
subtitle-547520-553570-121"We can take, for example, the second row here."
subtitle-558670-566350-122"And the second row is the University of Examplia Language Department."
subtitle-566740-569920-123"So what might we do?"
subtitle-569950-574630-124"The professors and students on the proofreading course will correct"
subtitle-574630-580600-125"machine-translated local language Wikipedia articles as their homework instead of"
subtitle-580600-582790-126"newspaper articles and random web pages."
subtitle-583000-587980-127"They may as well work on something that provides benefit as they are exercising their"
subtitle-587980-591880-128"language rather than on some artificial assignments."
subtitle-593680-600220-129"And again, the benefit is left unstated explicitly, we should say that means we will"
subtitle-600220-608530-130"have more proofread pages, that we would have more correct local language content."
subtitle-609160-611200-131"The likelihood here is medium."
subtitle-611200-614800-132"Maybe because we don't have a lot of contacts at the university, or we think they"
subtitle-614800-620800-133"might be very conservative and afraid to work with us and the impact is medium."
subtitle-620950-625000-134"Again, because this is kind of linear, I mean, people will work on a certain number of"
subtitle-625000-626100-135"pages and then that's it."
subtitle-626110-628360-136"That's the the number of pages that will be created."
subtitle-628930-635230-137"It's not like a an exponential kind of process that would keep on giving in a way."
subtitle-636550-638470-138"On the other hand, let's take the third line."
subtitle-639250-644920-139"Working with the National Tourism Authority, we would we the Wikimedians would provide"
subtitle-644920-650800-140"training to staff and help share high quality content under free license to ensure"
subtitle-650800-657250-141"that factual information about our country is available on Wikivoyage and across"
subtitle-657250-659820-142"Wikimedia projects."
subtitle-659920-661870-143"We will help them release content."
subtitle-661870-665380-144"Content from the Tourism Authority can be very high quality content."
subtitle-665740-670720-145"And the likelihood of that, well, it's low maybe because of the pandemic, maybe because"
subtitle-670720-673930-146"it's a government branch that may be very bureaucratic."
subtitle-674890-678760-147"Again, these are subjective assessments, so there's no point arguing with them."
subtitle-678760-683740-148"This person thinks the likelihood is low, but if we are able to achieve this"
subtitle-683740-685990-149"partnership, the impact would be high."
subtitle-686560-691510-150"It's maybe not likely, but if we are able to do it, the gain will be significant."
subtitle-691810-697780-151"Again, we don't need to go through all the details here because it is just to"
subtitle-697780-702060-152"illustrate. Here's an example from a larger country."
subtitle-703830-710460-153"And here we say, well, one potential partner is X, I'm anonymizing it, but this"
subtitle-710790-714840-154"organization will support us in planning and facilitating, etc., etc."
subtitle-714840-722400-155"And our partnership will fulfill that partner's mission point one, three, four and"
subtitle-722400-730590-156"five. And that's why I bring you this example, because this learner already mapped"
subtitle-730590-734970-157"this partnership to the partner's mission."
subtitle-735300-741690-158"This is a statement of benefit for the partner, because doing this partnership, this"
subtitle-741690-749910-159"table asserts, will hit or make progress on points one, three, four and five of their"
subtitle-749910-752490-160"mission, the partner's mission, whatever that is."
subtitle-752970-755640-161"So that's an excellent way to spell out the benefit."
subtitle-756210-762810-162"This helps you achieve your goal, your mission, specifically number three or four."
subtitle-765100-769200-163"And also partnering with a university to provide training, etc."
subtitle-769210-771190-164"These are similar things."