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Education Program: meetings and stories 2016

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Jan

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Meeting with the project FRIDA

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  • Date: January 22th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Free culture awareness
  • Description: January is summer season in Argentina. In this sense, the schools are closed and specifically, this year, after the national elections, the main schools leader were changed during the firsts months of the year. However, and taking these issues in mind, we tried to focus in developing a new strategy to diversify our funds. In this sense, we carried our a meeting with Carolina Caeiro, from Lacnic where we talked about Wikimedia Argentina and how to apply to an international grant.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 1

Feb

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Meeting with Fibertel

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  • Date: February 3th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Free content awareness
  • Description: As part of our work in 2016, we tried to approach new strategic partners to get new funds or have new access to other kinds of material support. In this sense, in February, we met with Fibertel, the main Internet company in Argentina, to establish a relation to improve the working spaces we work at, with better internet when it is necessary.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 2

Collab meeting

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  • Date: February 9th
  • Activity: Free culture awareness
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: A follow-up Education collab meeting took place in February, to continue designed the dashboard application.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach:

Wikipuentes publication english release

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  • Date: February 15th
  • Activity: Creation of resources
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: In Wikimedia Argentina when we talk about Wikipuentes, we mean our online course. As it was set in our Impact report, almost the 89% of the articles created by the Education Program come from our online course and the students involved. For this reason, we launched our experience in a publication that became available in English in February Wikipuentes. We hope that the rest of the Wikimedia movement can use it, learn and apply the experience within this own countries.
  • Staff involved: 2.
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: not yet avalaible

Wikipedia in the classroom

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  • Date: February 26th
  • Activity: Creation of resources
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: After 6 months of work the web page Wikipedia en el aula was launched. The web page is placed in the main educational portal of Argentina and contains education resources to help teacher to use Wikipedia within the classroom.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach: 2

Mentoring program with Wikimedia Mexico

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  • Date: 25-26-27-28th of February 2016
  • Activity: Empowering the community
  • Program: Community Support Program - GLAM - Education program
  • Description: During four days we met onsite in Buenos Aires with the president Iván Martínez and the secretary of Wikimedia Mexico Carme Alcazar to exchange and share our knowledge about our different programs. Wikimedia México is a great reference in GLAM projects and Gender gap initiatives, while Wikimedia Argentina has a greater expertise in Education. During 4 days we did not just share our learnings regarding our programs, but we managed to define new projects and activities together. As well, we learned from our failures and debated about the situation of our movement within the regions. Sharing knowledge with other chapters and organizations is a main goal for Wikimedia Argentina in 2016.
  • Staff involved: 3
  • Volunteers involved: 2
  • Gender approach: 4 program leaders involved
  • Results: find the page of the program

March

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The Collab Stockholm meeting

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  • Date: 1-2-3-4-5th of March 2016
  • Activity: Scaling up
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: During the fist week on March our former Education leader Melina Masnatta attended the meeting of the Education Collab group in Sweden. During two days, Wikimedia Argentina and its education projects were presented to the community and the collab group. As well, the meeting was define as new beginning for the collab group. Many new members were introduce and the strategy and goals for the following years were defined. Specifically, Wikimedia Argentina presented its experience with MOOCs proposals.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 1

Meeting Escolares

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  • Date: March 2th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: Wikimedia Argentina presented along with Escolares an International grant proposal to developed a project in vulnerable context using Wikipedia as a learning tool. The call was launched by Lacnic.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 3

Meeting UAI

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  • Date: March 14th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: First meetings to design an onsite proposal with teachers and students from the university UAI to work with Wikipedia in the classroom.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 2

Meeting UTN

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  • Date: March 16th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: Wikimedia Argentina along with UTN is organizing and of an online proposal for 2016.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 2

April

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Desingning the 1st edition of the online course 2016

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  • Date: 1st April 2016
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program:Participation and content
  • Description: The virtual course of Wikimedia Argentina is one of the main pillars of our Education Program . During 2016, we will not only be teaching again the course but we will be opening new courses in our own learning platform of e -learning. To approach this goal, we built a team of experts in distance learning courses that have been with us since 2014. Miriam Latorre, will be again part of Wikimedia Argentina in her role of education assistant along with our education manager,Luisina Ferrante, to ensure personalized accompaniment of the students involved.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 3 women involved

Ibertic: Raising awareness

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  • Date: 4th of April 2016
  • Activity: Free culture Awareness
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: Another major and important partner of Wikimedia Argentina is the OEI - Ibertic . During 2014 we organize with them the pilot contest, Luz, Cámara, Clic . During 2016 we hope to organize at least 3 meetings on education, technology and appropriation of Wikipedia as a teaching tool . Raising awareness on this question, is essential as a starting point to encourage the ownership of the Education Program by teachers.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 3 women involved

Educ.ar meeting: fostering strategic alliances

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  • Date: 5th of April
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: During 2015 Wikimedia Argentina worked with strategic alliances. We learned that our community is very large and the country unapproachable through our human and economic resources. It is for this reason that we partner with state organizations nationwide . Our aim for 2016 is to continue working through these platforms and promoting projects like those organized in 2015, like the contest Mis Monumentos also taking into account all the learning that we acquired after this first experience.
  • Staff involved: 3
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 5 women involved

Organizing our participation in UTNs MOOC

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  • Date: 5th of April
  • Activity: Program design
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: Wikimedia Argentina will participate in the MOOC organized by UTN during the last week of April 2016 and the first week of May 2016. With an expected participation of about 4,000 people during two weeks, the participants will know Wikipedia and its sisters project and will be editing for the first time using the translation tool. We are currently working in the design of the proposal on the platform.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 3 women involved

Agreement with UAI

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  • Date: 13th of April
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: Wikimedia Argentina has signed a collaboration agreement with the UAI, to work with teachers and students enrolled in Medicine degrees. Through this agreement we hope to introduce Wikipedia as a teaching tool, improve medical articles and engage new editors regarding this issue.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 3 women involved

Agreement with Universidad de Rio Negro

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  • Date: 13th of April
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: Wikimedia Argentina has signed a collaboration agreement with the Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, to work with teachers and students enrolled in different social science degrees. Through this agreement we hope to introduce Wikipedia as a teaching tool, improve medical articles and engage new editors regarding different subjects.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 2 women involved

Face to face trainig UNLP

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  • Date: 14th of April
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: The academic year in Argentina begins in late March , so most of our face to face trainings with teachers begin in late April or early May. This year also we also faced the new government that has meant a policy readjustment. Still, we have begun working with the Human Rights Chair of the UNLP. During April 14 we did a first approach on Wikipedia, along with a teacher who after a year of working with us is very familiar with the project. 32 students attended and we hope to design a concrete educational project to work with them during the academic year.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 22 women involved

Lecture given at Feria del Libro 2016

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  • Date: 31st of April
  • Activity: Free content Awareness
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description:Wikimedia Argentina was invited to participate in the Feria del Libro 2016. Partnership with the city government, we introduced the attendees to the WMAR's Education Program and our proposals.17 people attended, a great number taking in mind that the stand where we were participating had capacity for 22 people. Thanks to the activity, we engaged to new important contacts for the Education Program.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 7 women involved

May

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1st online course of the year ready to be launched

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  • Date: From May to July
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description:Wikimedia Argentina has worked hard over the past two months to have ready the first online course of 2016. The course of this year has adapted its content to generate new active editors in Wikipedia as well as quality educational content. After two editions, 2014 and 2015, we have shifted part of our written content to audiovisual material, to make it more dynamic. Similarly, we will offer two ways of study to encourage participation.Each module will have two activities. If you make both of them during the 7 modules you will get a certificate with a higher score in hours, if you just perform an activity per module , you will receive a certificate of completion for half hours. This way, we hope to encourage people to stay and remain with us even if they perform at their own pace.
From 21 April to 12 May, 928 people from different countries of the region and Spain have signed up to participate. This year we will also have the same active tutors than 2015, editors who began their journey as students in the course 2014. To Include students as ambassadors is one of our main goals.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 7 women involved

Own e-leaning platform ready!

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  • Date: May 2016
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description:Wikimedia Argentina has designed its own learning platform for its online courses. While the first course of 2016 will be a first test pilot, to have our own learning space has been essential to support the proposed activities for 2016. According to the results of 2015, 89% of the content improved in Wikipedia happens during and after the completion of the virtual course. With this context to have our platform was a need, since we rely on other institutions'agenda that severely limited us when to do the activity.
The campus is organized into three sections:
  1. Courses: where you can find the active courses.
  2. Community: meeting place for teachers, participants and Wikipedians. It has been designed as Facebook, a format well known by all.
  3. Resources: space where you can find all the teaching resources that we have developed to help participants to learn how to edit, among other things.
In this sense, we have designed a learning space that it's also a meeting space where to build community, a key goal for Wikimedia Argentina
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: n/a

New educational resources designed

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  • Date: May 2016
  • Activity: Creation of content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: 2015 assessment concluded that teachers and students still do not have enough resources to organize educational activities successfully. In this regard, we have designed two new teaching resources for teachers and their use in the classroom :
  1. Manual to define a quality article : Through the good work done by Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Argentina adapted its teaching guide to edit in Wikipedia for the spanish speaking community.
  2. Manual to organize activities in Wikipedia: Wikimedia Argentina has designed a manual to guide teachers in organizing classroom activities with Wikipedia.
All the resources are in Spanish and can be used by the community of Iberocoop and all the Spanish-speaking community .
  • Staff involved: 3 (1 contractor)
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach: 3

Wikimisiones 2016

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  • Date: May 17, 18 2016
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: Find the story and the results here
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach: 6

Lecture given regarding WMAR Education Program

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Final agreement UAI

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  • Date: May 2016
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: The activities with the University of Medicine of the UAI will be launched in September 2016.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach: 2

Scholem School

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  • Date: May 2016
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: Find the story here
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach: 3 women involved

University of Rio Negro

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  • Date: May 2016
  • Activity: Participation and content
  • Program:Education Program
  • Description: Find the story and results here
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach: 21 women involved

June

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Meeting with UNICEF

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  • Date: June 6th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: First meeting with UNICEF Argentina and Foro Digital. The main goal of this meeting was to establish a relationship between us to design an education proposal. We are working on it today, and will involved, if it is approved by all the partners, working with public secondary schools.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 3

Meeting with IBERTIC

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  • Date: June 6th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: Wikimedia Argentina has had as partner Ibertic during the last 2 years. During 2016, we planned to organize and editing contest with primary and secondary schools around Argentina. The proposal will be supported by Educ.ar, as well, a long term partner for us.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 3


July

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Educ.ar meeting: fostering strategic alliances

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  • Date: July 11th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: We are cordinating to create workshops about Wikimedia and Wikipedia in classroom with teachers from Buenos Aires Province. We also define de support of Educ.ar in future contest related with editing Wikiviajes.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 3 women involved

Meeting with Vahid Masrour

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  • Date: July 12th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: Meeting about virtual course wikibridges 2016 , evaluation results and future global and regional proposals.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 1

Meeting with UTN

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  • Date: July 13th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: Wikimedia Argentina planned to organize an intervention in the online course that UTN is doing with the online platform Miriadax. In this meeting we organize the weeks and ways to participated.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 1

Benito Nazar workshop

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  • Date: July 14th
  • Activity: Training
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: We gave a workshop for teachers in the school Benito Nazar
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 1

Meeting with Khemlabs

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  • Date: July 15th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Participation and content
  • Description: In our anual grant we decided to make a videogame to help to the teachers and student to get involved with Wikipedia. For that reason we have a meeting with the CEO & Founder of Khemlabs to start to design the videogame.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach: 1

Meeting with PENT FLACSO and Chequeado

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  • Date: July 22th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Education Program
  • Description: We have a meeting with our partner Chequeado and PENT FLACSO to organize the second edition of the Educational Hackaton.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: -
  • Gender approach:

Meeting with the staff of Parque de la Memoria

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  • Date: July 27th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: EDUGLAM
  • Description: We have a meeting with staff of the Parque de la Memoria to organize some activity with students in november and december.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach:

August

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Meeting Faro Digital

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  • Date: August 23th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Education
  • Description: We are working on the designing of a "edition club" with Unicef and Faro Digital. The pedagogic proposal is to train teachers in edit Wikipedia and edit with their students about free culture and rights in internet.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach:2

Workshop Huellas de la Escuela

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  • Date: August 26th
  • Activity: Teachers training
  • Program: Education
  • Description: We worked on teachers training. We made a presentation about Wikiemdia Argentina and the Education Program. Also we explained the principal tips to edit in Wikipedia.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 29

Lecture in Argentina Segura

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  • Date: August 25th
  • Activity: Lecture
  • Program: Education program
  • Description: Anna Torres, the ED of Wikimedia Argentina give a lecture about Wikipedia and the classroom in front of hundreds of educational referents.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: n/a
  • Participant: 425

Ibertic contest

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  • Date: August 29th
  • Activity: Wikivoyage and Ibertic Contest.
  • Program: Education
  • Description: We invite teachers and studentes to edit in wikivoyage about their neighborhoods in Argentina. The Contest will last eight month.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach:4

September

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Presentation FADU

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  • Date: September 9th
  • Activity: Presentation
  • Program: Education
  • Description: Luisina Ferrante made a workshow with the a class of architecture in the University of Buenos Aires.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Audience in the workshop: 103

Meeting Santiago Vazquez

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  • Date: September 12th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Education
  • Description: We have the first meeting with Santiago Vazquez, one of our speaker in the next educational hackaton.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach:2


Wikibridges tutors training

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  • Date: September 22th
  • Activity: Tutors Training
  • Program: Education
  • Description: we trained virtual tutors of Wikibridges MOOC about editing in Wikipedia and how to use different projects of Wikimedia.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a

Educ.ar meeting

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  • Date: September 28th
  • Activity: Meeting
  • Program: Education
  • Description: Anna Torres have a meeting with Mariu Alonso to talk about the next year plans with Educ.ar.
  • Staff involved: 1
  • Volunteers involved: n/a
  • Gender approach: 1Gender approach: 3

Release of the online course Wikipuentes

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  • Date: September 29th
  • Activity: Online course
  • Program: Education
  • Description: Launch of the second virtual course Wikipuentes.
  • Staff involved: 4
  • Volunteers involved: 1
  • Gender approach: n/a

October

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Wikimisiones

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  • Date: October 5th
  • Activity: Closing experience wikimisiones 2015-2016 and awards
  • Program: Education
  • Description: Closing experience Wikimisiones 2015-2016. Presentation of educational projects undertaken by teachers and students related to the use of Wikipedia in the classroom. During two month of working in their schools and communities, teachers and students shared their experiences with the participation of a special jury, that recognized the pedagogical projects presented.
  • Staff involved: 2
  • Volunteers involved: 2
  • Gender approach: n/a

MINU

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Cierre del curso virtual

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Creatón

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Media coverage

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Education and technology

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Gender and technology

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Eduglam activities

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Wikimisiones

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