Grants:Project/Find it, know it and help them

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Find it, know it and help them

summaryProfiling government schools in South Africa, so that they can be available for public use and make it easier for both local and international development practitioners to use or the schools concerned.

targetEnglish and IsiXhosa Wikipedia and Incubator

type of grantresearch

amount55000

type of applicantindividual

created on08:58, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

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Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

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The problem is that there is a lack of online data of government schools in South Africa. This lack of data makes it difficult for development practitioners and philanthropists and other stakeholders to understand how they are characterised. Why is there is a need for us to understand these schools, South Africa faces a lot inequality challenges and with governement lacking the neccessary capacity to assist under resourced schools and sometimes without building. The issue here is not provide support to the schools but to provide information or data to the online community, so as to assist stakeholders to find relevant and legit information in order to know schools and assist them if possible. Recently in a project we were involved we want to assist these schools but getting the necessary to know exactly how best can we help became a struggle and still is to this day.

What is your solution?

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The proposed solution is one to pilot a project where can send out trained field workers to profile 20 government schools in the Western Cape in different communities and in the process teach relevant stakeholders on how to use wikipedia, particularly to donate data to wikipedia. At the end of the project we want to have data about 20 schools from the Western Cape and learn how best can we popularise the donation of content about government schools in South Africa

Project goals

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Encourage the donation of data about government schools in South Africa Inspire and motivate communities to donate data about schools and any other communal institutions To promote wikidata as a source for content donation and getting information for all.

Project impact

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Project plan

Activities

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