Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/EduWiki 2022 in South Sudan (ID: 21908594)

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Applicant Details

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Lomoraronald

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AKibombo Sandra Aceng Lomoraronald

Organization

Wikimedia community South Sudan

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan (Not registered) Wiki4refugees

Grant Proposal

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

EduWiki 2022 in South Sudan

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

twitter: @wikisouthsudan facebook: @wikisouthsudan

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

In South Sudan, access to education and education resources is such a huge limitation to education, but with the massive amount of open education resources found on Wikimedia, we shall be able to reach out to many students and teachers to become not only consumers but as well creators of this educational content on Wikimedia platforms, and this shall affect the way teachers and students learn since learning will now be evidence-based, with a site of reference.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

We shall use the school outreach Model to reach Juba University, and the students have a Wikimedia awareness and a peer-to-peer module for training students. reaching out to schools not only saves costs for the venue and other associated costs but it makes the learners and teachers feel more confident. It can easily aid in their learning process and consumption of the knowledge to hence be shared.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

We shall be able to develop a Wikiclub that shall retain and continue aiding students with a community of contributors to Wikimedia. we shall create Training of Students on reading Wikimedia ( Wikipedia in the classroom) adding more Edu- content about south Sudan on wikidata

The activities shall involve creating wiki clubs in the target schools of interest, training instructors and students on Wikimedia, and how they could become contributors/ editors and consumers of the already created information. Flow up meetings with teachers and students to aid in the continual contribution to this platform

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

Other (please specify)

Wikimedia in Education

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Yes, In collaboration with the education department of the Wikimedia community user group of Uganda headed by Erina, we shall be able to have a team of trainers that help us during the sessions and training with the students and instructors Akibombo- Trainer Sandra Aceng- Ass. Trainer Lomoraronald- Mobiliser and community liason

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Content Gender gap, Geography, Socioeconomic Status, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

After the training offered via the school outreaches, all the edits and article creations shall be centered at creation of data that was missing or improving already existing articles, and for the fact that South Sudan has a very minimal amount of information about her self on Wikimedia comes in handy that the information can be filled by a dashboard tracked editing program

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Human Rights, Open Technology, Diversity

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Disabilities, Socioeconomic status, Digital Access

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?

We shall be working with teachers and students in 3 schools in Juba in this project, and we shall be able to engage in pre-program events like mobilization in the schools, by allowing the teachers to select the 20 students we shall be working with per school, and the 10 teachers per school shall be selected on the basis of willingness and come one come first, the interested members shall be allowed to fill in a form of interest, then considered for the program from the different targeted schools. Then the post-program events shall mainly be follow-up programs via a WhatsApp group to coordinate the edits and articles created via the dashboard and a later evaluation foam to be filled by those that participated in the training and program to asses the impacts of the program

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

These events and programs shall be on the school premises, which are deemed safe and secure for children learning and as well for the teachers. The circumstances shall have familiar people, the teachers the kids know, and there shall be additional support from the administration to ensure the kids shall be safe in the space during our training.

We also have a safe Guarding Policy that shall guide the instructors, trainers, and participants during the sessions

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

in a partnership with a local community-based initiative that runs education programs, we shall be able to reach out to these schools physically and inform them about the program, and we also had pre-program meetings to organize the site and selection process of the students and teachers to involved.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

Yes

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

Yes

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

A Joint Proposal is always amazing, and this is why we have rather joined as a community to do this together to reach more impact with effeciency, thanks if it were single and separate programs

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Yes

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

We shall be working with a local community-based initiative that shall help us in mobilization and coordinating with the schools in target since they have been having programs in those schools

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

I would love to learn, the topics of interest from the targeted participants, also how Wikimedia can cause an effect in an already disturbed education system in South Sudan

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Challeneges in accessing internet	This shall help me to understand the extent at which internet penetration affects the students or teachers from either using or contributing to wikimedia	30
Challenges in the access to education resources	These answers shall aid in tackling the relevance of Wikimedia in education to filling in the gap of enhancing education, and these demographics shall help in understanding how to deploy solutions for the challenges mentioned	30
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	20 Upper primary and secondary students in the schools 10 teachers in the schools selectec	30
Number of editors	The editors shall be from the team trained (teachers and Students)	30
Number of organizers	We shall have a number of 4 organizers Lomora Ronald- Mobiliser Alice - Trainer Sandra - Ass Trainer EFFS - Mobiliser partner organisation	4

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	Add articles and edit articles	30
Wikimedia Commons	Upload Photos	30
Wikimedia Commons	Use the photos uploaded in Wikipedia articles	20
Wikidata	Add Wiki Items from existing and new articles created	50
N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

The metrics may be more or less, but we may be disrupted by IP blocking or internet connectivity, or articles being deleted as it is something i have faced with editors during training but after that, it normalises and gets better meaning there are chances to achieve our results

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

we shall use a dashboard, and in case there are better tools we could use to assess the metrics and impact are welcome.

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

2079000 SSP

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

4950 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YvQourR5lUM9PcrONXDvsC2qAHC3KrahkmORD6zAsEY/edit#gid=0

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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