Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Women in the digital economy (ID: 22763351)
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Applicant Details
edit- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Ngozi osadebe
- Organization
Surplus People in the Universities Research Group
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
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- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Women in the digital economy
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-10-05 - 2024-11-04
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Art+Feminism
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
I want to make knowledge freely available on Wikipedia pages on digital economy paying particular attention to the gap in digital tech ownership and consumption between men and women in Africa. this will serve as a means of encouraging women to develop an interest in the digital economy. Authors such as Porfido and Marks (2020) assert that only 9% of tech start-ups in Africa were led by women. The authors went further to say that there is a 37% gap between men's access to mobile internet compared to women. Perfiso and Mark further assert that one of the major causes f the non=participation of women in the digital economy is lack of digital skills.
Non participation of of women in the digital economy robs women of the benefits such as increased productivity, reduced cost of production and marketing, extended reach to more customers, and innovation to mention but a few. African women's participation in the digital economy will help the African continent to meet some of the 17 sustainable goals such as Goal 1 -End poverty, Goal 2 - Zero hunger, Goal 4 - Quality education and Goal 10 - Reduce inequalities.
My main approach to achieving this is to train interested University women to document published literature on the digital economy and women on Wikipedia pages. this will serve as a two-pronged approach to the problem. First the participants will learn the digital skills required to contribute to Wikimedia and second, the participants will learn more about the digital economy as they read published articles to summarize in Wikipedia pages.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
The planned activities for the project are as follows. 1. Sell the project idea to women's organisations in the University such as the University women's association and Forum for African Women Educationalist through a seminar. 2. Agree on the modalities for carrying out the project with the organisations 3. Secure a training venue and date for the project. 4. Generate topics that participants cn work on using PETSCAN 5. Source out published literature on the topics. 6. Organize a three day training for the participants using the Wikimediatraining module 7. Give a space of 30 days for participants to use the knowledge they gained from the training to edit Wikipedia pages on given topics. 8. Organize a meet-up for participants to share experiences gained in the project.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
The members of my team are: 1. Ezinne Njoku (User: Ezimoo). Ezinne has been a volunteer facilitator in Wikimedia projects held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka since 2018. 2. Beatrice Ewa (User: Beatrice Ewa). Beatrice Ewa joined the Wikimedia movement in 2029 and has remained a volunteer facilitator since then. 3. Onyebuchi Echezona (User: Onyebuchi Echezona) joined the Wikimedia movement in 2022 and has remained a committed editor. 4. Baruch Omale (User: Baruch Omale) joined the Wikimedia movement in 2022 and has remained a committed Wikimedian
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
The target participants are members of the University Women's Association (UWA), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and Forum for African African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Enugu State Chapter who volunteered to participate in the project. Before the project starts, a call will be issued for interested participants to register for the project through the UWA and FAWE, UNN WhatsApp platforms and the University of Nigeria mailing list. A WhatsApp platform will be set up for the people who registered for the project. An online questionnaire will be sent to the participants to determine their expectations for volunteering in the project. the WhatsApp platform will also serve as the avenue for passing other information relevant to the project to the participants.
After the training, participants will have a physical meet-up to discuss their experiences during the project. The meet-up will feature a series of focus group discussion groups to gather information on the experiences of the participants during the project as well as information on other learnings about the project that occurred outside the training venue. Peer-to-peer learning will be encouraged at the meet-up.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
Discussions on this project have been ongoing at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) Wikimedia Facilitators meeting since October 2023. Even, a proposal was put up on the topic by the NGO "Literacy for Sustainable Living Nigeria" on March 2024. Unfortunately, the proposal did not go through. It is the importance that Wikimedians in UNN placed on the topic that forced our research group to pick up the topic again.
The project was announced in the Wikimedia Nigeria User Group platform, Surplus People in the Universities Research Group (SPURG) Platform and the Deforetation in Nigeria WikimediaWhatsApp platform.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Disabilities
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics
edit- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
I hope to learn about the following. 1. What are the participants' expectations from the project? This will be a pre-training survey. 2. Were the participants' expectations from the project met? This will be gathered through a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with the participants. 3. What are the ways for enhancing participants participation in the project? 4. What are the methods for attracting more participants to the Wikimedia movement? What are the areas of the digital economy that attracted the participants most?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 59 | First-time participantnts in Wikimedia events 30. Participant that have participated in Wikimedia events in other projects or activities 20. Cleaner 1, Technical Assistant 2, Medical team 2, Security personnel 2 and baby sitters 2. |
| Number of editors | 50 | Newly registered editors 30. Returning editors 20 |
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 150 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 90 |
| Wikidata | 50 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of articles created | The number of articles introduced into Wikipedia for the first time | 20 |
| Number of existing Wikipedia article improved. | The number of existing Wikipedia articles that participants worked on. Worked on here includes adding text, pictures or correcting grammatical errows. | 130 |
| Number og pictures uploaded | These include new pictures taken by the participants in the life of the project and those obtained from Wikicommons to support our project. | 90 |
| Wikidata items created | This refers to the number of text books on digital economy entered into Wikidata. | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
I will set up an outreach dashboard to capture the number of editors and edits made. I will also use physical attendance sheet to capture information on those who completed the three days training and those who did not.
Financial proposal
edit- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
USD
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No
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