Wikimania 2022/Scholarships/Wikimania 2022 remote event in Nigeria /Report

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Yes

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Targeted outcomes

We organised a 3-day in person conference in Lagos with the Festival Edition theme in mind. The event was organised with the combination of community members from the Yoruba, Igbo and Wikimedia UG Nigeria User Group.
We anticipated 50 participants to participate in the 3-day event
we planned to support 20 participants with small hardware support.
We plan to host a-one social event.
10-20 participants will receive data to support their participation at the event.

Achieved outcome

All of our targeted outcomes were met and even more!

Some of the achieved outcomes are as follows:

We hosted an a-3day event in Lagos among the Yoruba, Igbo and Wikimedia Nigeria community's members.
20 participants who did not participate in the in-person received small hardware support
We've sponsored three child care services.
We've bought 20 headsets distributed to our community members that could not join the online event.
We invited a partner to share progress and the benefits of an ongoing project to the participants
To feature in the event, we've handed scholarships to 30 participants from other states in Nigeria ( excluding Lagos state) and 20 members from Lagos, the host city.
We hosted a social event to familiarize invited participants to the culture, art, and entertainment of the host state.

Overall outcomes

Local Wikimania Conference 2022, Nigeria/Program

It was an exciting event in Lagos where over 50 participants featured in a local Wikimania 2022 is the first edition of the in-person local Wikimania in Nigeria. The edition was jointly organized by leaders of the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group, Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia UG Nigeria to display the diversity of the Nigerian people. The event also featured the involvement of IGA Limited, an organization working with the Wikimedia UG Nigeria to document the history and heritage of Lagos through the "Wiki Love Lagos" event. Over 30 members of the community travel to participate in the event. The partner presented a slide on the partnership's progress, what has been achieved, what is yet to be done, challenges facing the projects, and the solution adopted. It also allowed members to network and create a powerful bond. Some of our members presented their works live from the event, e.g. Tochi joined the international platform to deliver on Building International Cooperation: Lessons from Afro-curation. The social event was ideated because participants needed the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the hosting state.

Learning

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What worked well?

We maximize the diversity, experience and achievement among the members of the three user groups present at the event.
The in-person presented a avenue for another face-to-face discussion among entire members of the Nigerian community
Skills sharing during our edithons, hackathons and panel discussions.
We were able to invite a partner that gave an insight into ongoing project by the community and help other user group to allig with bthe same project.
It allowed members to share experience, challenges and solution about their projects.
We've produced a West African Jollof rice video which was played in the main conference event and our in person events.

What did not work so well?

Due to the delay in the grant-making, receiving the applicable fund for the event took a while.
We could not access the online platform for the opening due to a technical glitch from the international organizer. However, the situation improved as the event went by.

What we could have done well?

Ensure the proposal is submitted on time so that the review process could have concluded on time.
The International team could have used the online platform in the previous event. This approach could have helped with a significant hands-on experience in the form of the end-to-end system running.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation

S/n	Discription of activities	Unit cost (USD)	Rate(USD	Total (USD)
1	Event hall for the host of the 3-day event	606.79	3	1820.37
2	Dedicated Internet for the event	728.16	1	728.16
3	Audiovisual- rentage of audiovisual equipment for the 3-day event.	1092.23	1	1092.23
4	Small hardware support	24.27	20	485.4
5	Rollup Banner and Back drops	250	1	250
6	Printed Artwork, conference swags /merchandise for event participants ( lots)	963.59	1	963.59
7	Local travels support for members of the community within Lagos	48.54	50	2427
8	Catering services for the in-person event in Lagos	3640.78	1	3640.78
9	Social event @3AD event center ( Drinks, food , gate fees, Cost of DJ, waiters etc)	2427.18	1	2427.18
10	Logitics( Hiring bus for the event)	878.16	1	878.16
12	Miscellaneous( Phone calls, meetings, local travels for organisers)	242.72	1	242.72
				14955.59