Wiki In Africa/Focus

__Wiki In Africa__

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Wiki Loves Africa

Wiki Loves Women

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Short presentation of Wiki in Africa

Wiki In Africa (www.wikiinafrica.org) is a South African registered NPO whose work across the continent.

Its mission is to:

Activate and enable communities to ensure that open knowledge platforms reflect and represent the diverse cultures, peoples, biodiversities, and histories of the African continent and other previously marginalised and disenfranchised communities with the same depth and breadth as other knowledge systems.

To achieve this mission, it combats the digital divide across Africa through layered, strategically-focused programs that progress skills acquisition, leadership development, and community building.

Collectively the programs result in representative visual and textual content under free licenses that reflect previously skewed, misunderstood, or invisible knowledges, realities, cultures, and histories. The organisation’s core activities are geared towards activating sustainable contribution of content that relates to Africa (and similarly disadvantaged communities and populations) whose value and worth are decided by those communities and individuals. This content contributes to decolonizing knowledge and the internet.

Wiki In Africa’s activities supports the strategic goals of the Wikimedia movement. We support free expression, a free and open Internet, and the use of open licenses, and the protection of the public domain.

Thousands of participants across our projects collate, curate, and contribute content that relates to the theme of Africa and ensuring gender equity. This content presents new narratives of what ‘Africa’ and ‘gender’ really represent to African and global audiences. Access to this content by a diverse readership is assured through the contents’ integration into global knowledge platforms, such as Wikipedia.

Wiki In Africa’s activities supports the aims of the Wikimedia movement across Africa. We support free expression, a free and open Internet, and the use of open licenses and the protection of the public domain. Its beneficiaries are Readers, Students and existing and potential Wikipedians. Its target groups or audiences are the individuals and collective knowledge in Civil Society partners (content and network and educational), Wikimedia and Open aligned volunteer groups and education organisations.

Achieving the Wiki In Africa Mission

In light of the Theory of Change developed during 2021, and considering our Swot Analysis as well as Risk Analysis, several overarching goals and objectives were identified in our Strategic focus.

The 2022 annual plan retained the focuses of the 2021 Annual Plan and expected to extend and scale these impacts into the future. In 2022 we became more focused on nurturing engagement, through our programs (and other Wikimedia initiatives) at every stage of the participant’s journey.

In 2022, we developed a Strategic Plan as well as our first Multi Year Plan 23-25.

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