On Wednesday 24th October WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge projects will be presented within Les Matinales Numériques, a series of meetings organized by Orange Foundation at the cultural center CENTQUATRE in Paris and devoted to media and digital technologies use in the social field. Developing digital contents in Africa with Wikipedia is the title of the morning, wholly focused on the two projects and into which associations, institutions and NGOs supported by Orange Foundation will take part.
The foundation, linked to Orange/France Télécom, is one of the most active and cutting edge international realities supporting economic development, mainly through the use of digital and web technologies. Orange, one of the main telecommunications groups of the African continent, has been long acknowledging Wikipedia value as a free tool to access knowledge: it has been the first world firm signing an agreement with Wikimedia Foundation, making surfing Wikipedia for free for its own African and Middle East customers.
Moreover, the Orange Foundation supports doual'art, a contemporary art center in Douala, Cameroon, in WikiAfrica Cameroon field. The project has been conceived by doual'art in collaboration with lettera27 and the Africa Center in Cape Town, South Africa, and it will start in November 2012, lasting for a year.
WikiAfrica, born in 2006 with the aim of Africanizing the online encyclopaedia through the creation of articles from and about the African continent, will be introduced by the scientific director Iolanda Pensa, together with Share Your Knowledge, the training project developed in 2011 to support cultural organizations in sharing their own contents on Wikipedia.
Being a meaningful example of knowledge sharing and spreading, WikiAfrica shares many objectives with Orange Foundation, which since 2005 has been involved in various intervention areas related to knowledge and social innovation support, has been active in more than 30 countries in the world in synergy with associations and territorial NGOs and has established local foundations in Africa (Senegal, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Niger, Botswana).
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