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The Smithsonian: A Partnership to Improve Gender Representation Online

The American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), which launched under the Smithsonian’s strategic goal of “Reaching 1 billion people with a digital-first strategy” in late…

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Wikimania 2019: Closing Session - Jimmy Wales and Katherine Maher on the Future of the Wikimedia Movement;

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Farhad Fatkullin – 2018 Wikimedian of the Year; Jimmy Wales, announcing the 2019 winner; Katherine Maher – Wikimedia Foundation…

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Wikimania 2019: Increasing Wikimedia’s Readership - Advocating the change with SDG Goals

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Lack of name recognition challenges the Wikimedia movement's ability to invite new readers, contributors, and advocates to join our…

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Wikimania 2019: Public Domain Awareness Project

Public Domain Awareness Project: enhancing use of CC’s Public Domain tools to serve the needs of GLAM institutions and reusers https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program

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Wikimania 2019: Creating visibility for the world’s cultural heritage institutions

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Through this presentation we will introduce the efforts to collect information about the cultural heritage institutions (often called GLAM, an…

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Wikimania 2019: Integrating Wikidata into Education

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project, is a structured, linked-data knowledge base. In fact, it is the biggest Semantic Web platform humanity…

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Death and resurrection of Journalism

Emanuel Karlsten Journalist, social media expert and digital advisor How the controversial Copyright directive explained why journalism is worth funding.

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Mapping the world we want

Tyler Radford Executive Director, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Citizen-generated data and the SDGs

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The role of free knowledge in advancing the SDGs - Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Katherine Maher Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Principles shared between the SDGs and the Wikimedia movement and our goals for 2030

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Wikimedians and the Global Goals

* Anna Torres from Wikimedia Argentina * Thomas Schallhart, Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group * Li-Yun Lin, Wikimedia Taiwan * Felix Nartey, Open Foundation West Africa Panel with four prominent…

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Implementing the 2030 Agenda

Annika Söder State Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The role of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

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What could Wikimedia’s relationship be to the Global Goals and the UN?

John Cummings Wikimedian in Residence for UNESCO Examples from UNESCO, including the FindingGLAMs project

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Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge - Mark Graham, The Internet Archive

Mark Graham Director, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive The Internet Archive in support of the SDGs

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Open science and education for sustainable life

Karin Holmgren Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor in Physical Geography, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU The importance of collaboration and communication to find joint…

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Where open and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) converge

Ryan Merkley CEO, Creative Commons How a radically open approach will let us move more quickly, with greater innovation, towards a more equitable result.

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Wikimania 2019: Enhancing Awareness to the Gender Gap through EDUWiki

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program This Panel will explore how diversity and specifically the Gender Gap could be addressed in EDUWiki initiatives around the world.We will also discuss…

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