Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Event Page

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Regional education meetings are planned by the community specialists of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC) and the Education team. We are using this as an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges that are faced by our community members in different regions of the world. Everyone is invited to participate, ask questions, and share their activities.

Welcome to the 1st Africa Regional Meeting as we commemorate Edu Wiki Week with the larger community

Thursday 24th February 15:00 UTC Via Zoom

Thursday 24th February at 15:00 GMT/UTC
Zoom link

Team

Host- Ruby D-Brown
Cohost- Andrews Lartey
French interpreter -
Designer & Technical Support - Eugene Masiku

Agenda

Welcome, address, and introduction of the program- Ruby 2minutes
Understanding Partnership Opportunities in Africa Region- Rudolf 15minutes
Understanding grants, what we should know- Veronica Thanmaini- 15minutes
Community Edu project lightning talk
- - Rene- Cameroon
  - Tochi- Nigeria
  - Max- Ghana
  - Andy -Ghana
- What EduWiki collaboration and EduWiki Week is about and what inspired it- Sailesh 5minute
  - Talk about comms
    - How they can leverage Eduwiki Monthly Newsletter
    - Introduce Facebook Community and Telegram
    - Introduction of a podcast platform for the region- AfricaEduWiki Podcast
  - What they should expect in the coming months
    - More engagement
    - Community Specialties (CS) and Wikimedia team presenting their work
    - CS and regional leaders/Affiliate members presenting their work
    - Open forum for discussion
    - Inviting speakers from non-Wikimedia movement + regional affiliates to share their work.
  - Questions and answers

Meet Your Host and Speakers for 24th Feb 2022 Regional Event

About Your Host and Speakers

Ruby D-Brown- (Host)

She is passionate about open knowledge projects. Prior to joining the movement, she worked on a number of international Developmental projects as a project manager and coordinator in the field of health and education such as the Community Health Nurses project (funded by Bill and Melinda Gate) Discovery Girls Learning project with Social Impact which aimed at improving the learning experience for girls through technology, the USAID partnership for Education Project also aimed at improving the Ghanaian curriculum at the basic level amongst others. She joined the Open Foundation West first as a volunteer and later joined the team. Since then she has supported the organization in various capacities and has led in organizing several different campaigns and projects which include community projects such as the Africa Wiki Challenge, the launch of the Kiwix4schools project, and other content campaign drives. She is people-centered and loves to connect and network with others to achieve greater impact and results with every opportunity given. User:Ruby D-Brown

Andrews Lartey- (Co-Host)

Andrews Lartey has been part of the Wikimedia family as a contributor since 2014.

He became the project manager for the first ever Greenhouse grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, Education team. He participated in the first Wikimedia & Global Education Goals online course in 2020. He is currently a Wikimedian In Residence (WIR) at Ghana Society for Education Technology (GSET) on the Wikidata for Education (WD4E) project as part of Wikimedia's contribution to the UNESCO Education Global Coalition. This project seeks to digitize curricula data to allow to support the wikimedia volunteer editing community to improve content related to school curricula, give education stakeholders the ability to do comparative analysis of curricula on a global scale, make data about curricula readily available and machine readable so that developers can create innovative solutions to education challenges and to have a central location for curated contents from other wikimedia projects and OERs. He is a computer scientist, an engineer, a designer whose background also covers project and product management, business development, branding and communication, and entrepreneurship. He is a circular economy advocate and loves to play soccer. Wikimedia Username: Andrews Lartey.

Maxwell Beganim- Ghana (Lightening talk- Kiwix4schools)

Maxwell Beganim is an Educator, Open Advocate and a tech enthusiast. He is a trainer at Open Foundation West African and served as hub lead for Kumasi Wiki Hub.He also served as a Kiwix project lead where he trained Senior High Schools on the use of offline tools to access information and promoting Digital Inclusion.

Rene Bile-Cameroon (Lightening talk-Wikipedia in classroom)

His parents gave him the name BILE Rene - a little geek. He is a Cameroonian and a Pedagogue by profession. He loves the world of free and open-source software ... and just recently he found his interest in Wikipedia galaxy, where the community is active around several projects. He likes to learn and share. He likes to meet people and even more so to discover new experiences. He would like to grow in the community and contribute in so many ways. His work experience with Wikipedia started in Cameroon in 2017 through the project, Wikivillages of Cameroon. After the contest, he joined the user group(Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group) as a member. Since then, he has been assisting the community in its many projects. He discovered the world of programming on Wikipedia. Topics like WikiData are of great interest to him. He assists these projects in Cameroon as a trainer: Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Women and WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique/en 2021.

Tochi Precious - Nigeria (Lightening talk - My AfroCuration Experience)

She is a teacher, entrepreneur, linguist, and a project manager. She the founder and Operations coordinator of Smarter Languages Hub - a language services company, co-founder and Program Coordinator, Igbo Wikimedians User Group, a Master's Student at Rome Business School. She was one of the 9 African women selected for the Wiki in Africa Wiki Loves Women Focus Group 2021 and is currently a Wikipedian in Residence at Moleskine Foundation where she enjoys the challenge of adding more African language Wikipedias, increasing the number of young African knowledge contributors.

Eugene Masiku - Ghana (Technical Support)

Eugene Masiku is a Communicator and a lover of Open source. Having joined the Wikimedia movement through Open Foundation West Africa as a Communications lead in 2021, he has worked on a number of projects in the movement. He has coordinated campaigns like the Africa Wiki Challenge, Founders Day Ghana Writing Contest, Wiki AFCON hackathon 2021, the local edition of Wikimania 2021, Wiki Vibrance AYM 2021, and a few other projects. He is a lover of Wikipedia projects, especially Meta-Wiki where he creates meta-pages and provides technical support for local campaigns organized by OFWA.

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