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The Open Foundation West Africa is a registered nonprofit organisation in Ghana. Its mission is to extend the reach of Open Movement Activities in West Africa, through open education and education programs, digitizing open resources, preserving cultural and heritage items for educational purposes and promoting contents about the West African region and existent countries.

One of its core missions is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content in the public domain or under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify said content without the payment of royalties.

Objectives

1. Activating communities where there is little or no activity of Open Movement.
2. Advocating for affordable, fast and safe internet.
3. Promoting Open Access and Open Data.
4. GLAM
5. Open Education and Open Education Resources.

Projects

• Africa Day Campaign

• Africa Wiki Challenge 2022

• Africa Wiki Challenge

• Kiwix4Schools Project

• Africa Wikimedia Developers Project

• Founders Day Ghana Writing Contest - Decolonizing The Internet

• Founders Day Ghana Writing Contest - Celebrating Ghanaian Leaders

• Wiki Afcon Hackathon 2021

• The Ghana Polls 2020

• GLAM Ghana

• Activating African Communities

• WikiIndaba conference 2017

• Wikipedia Education Project Ashesi University

• Wiki Loves Africa 2016

• Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Ghana

• Wiki Loves Women in Ghana

• Arts+Feminism 2016|2017

• Creative Commons Salon Ghana

• OpenCon 2017 Kumasi

• FASTAFRICA

• Kumusha Bus

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2022 Annual Plan

• 2022 annual plan

Affiliations Committee Resolutions

• Open Foundation West Africa (September 2017)

Contact us

You can reach us through infoofwafrica.org or visit our website at ofwafrica.org

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