2019:Advocacy
Global Advocacy for Free Knowledge: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
Welcome to the homepage for the Advocacy space at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm!
Wikimedia doesn't exist in a vacuum, so how do we create the legal/policy environment for flourishing free knowledge now and in the future? How can we make access to knowledge better on a systemic level as global community? We aim to host a space for experts, academics, policy-makers, community leaders, and anyone with a curiosity about law, policy, and advocacy to come together to work on answers to this broad question.
Contact[edit | edit source]
Co-leaders for this space include:
- Allison Davenport
- Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
- Jan Gerlach
- Stephen LaPorte
- Anna Mazgal
- Jacob Rogers
- Amelia Sanchez-Moran
- Douglas Scott
For more any questions about the Advocacy space, please contact adavenport@wikimedia.org
Short description[edit | edit source]
See the list of events:
- 2019:Advocacy/Internet is for the people - the future we want
- 2019:Advocacy/Q&A with the WMF Public Policy Team
- 2019:Advocacy/How does China see Wikipedia? Debunk China's internet censorship
- 2019:Advocacy/Non-Partisan vs. Normalisation - Should we interact with elected extremists?
- 2019:Advocacy/Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA: An Update
- 2019:Advocacy/How Wikimedia projects can deal with Patriotism within its community?
- 2019:Advocacy/Total Blackout: How Political Activism Challenges the Neutral Point of View
- 2019:Advocacy/The Big Open (... for suggestions)
- 2019:Advocacy/Platform Regulation and Free Knowledge Advocacy
- 2019:Advocacy/Towards Knowledge Equity through Accessibility
- 2019:Advocacy/How to talk about advocacy so that people do not fall asleep?
- 2019:Advocacy/Who wants to be a terrorist? A rough guide to over-regulating free speech with anti-terrorist measures
- 2019:Advocacy/Copyright advocacy mapping
- 2019:Advocacy/Data driven advocacy
- 2019:Advocacy/Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
- 2019:Advocacy/Traditional Knowledge and the Open Movement
- 2019:Advocacy/Practical aspects of legislative advocacy
- 2019:Advocacy/Copyright Directive Transposition Bootshop
- 2019:Advocacy/Wiki- ... who? Brands, Titles and Representation in policy matters
- 2019:Advocacy/Rethinking public sector data ecosystems - Open Government Data, Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata
- 2019:Advocacy/Advocacy Lightning Talks
- 2019:Advocacy/Digital Security 101
- 2019:Advocacy/Defending heritage through free knowledge: the importance of Wikimedia projects against cultural predation
- 2019:Advocacy/Shrinking Spaces for Civil Society on the Web: Wikipedia blocks in Turkey and China
- 2019:Advocacy/what we are advocating for and why
Background[edit | edit source]
For some more information on advocacy within the Wikimedia movement, please see the following resources:
- WMF Public Policy Portal
- Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU
- Advocacy Working Group - Movement Strategy Process
- Advocacy tag on Wikimedia Foundation blog (archive)
Additionally, Wikimania 2019 is themed around the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. The Advocacy space leaders have identified the following seven goals as relating to advocacy within the Wikimedia movement:
Topics[edit | edit source]
Topics recommended by proposers and space leaders[edit | edit source]
- We hope to explore a broad range of topics relevant to advocacy in the Wikimedia movement during our sessions. Our two-day program will be built on sessions which discuss both the process of engaging in advocacy within our movement ("HOW") and the specific legal, structural, and political issues we advocate about in our movement ("WHAT"). We are particularly interested in sessions which discuss:
- Legal and policy trends affecting the access to knowledge and Wikimedia
- How to build capacity within local communities interested in advocacy, and other practical issues
- How regional differences play a part in advocacy campaigns
- Traditionally identified policy priorities such as: copyright, access, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy; as well as emerging policy areas such as: misinformation, hate speech, digital literacy, and machine learning/AI
Topics the community wants[edit | edit source]
- Please add topics as you see fit!