Free Knowledge and the Global Goals Spotlight Session[edit | edit source]

How does Free Knowledge relate to Sustainable Development? Can the Wikimedia movement contribute to a better world? What role can free knowledge play in the work to fulfill Agenda 2030 – the world's shared vision for a sustainable future?

Welcome to a full day's session addressing these questions, opening up the floor for international leaders to give their view on Free Knowledge and the Global Goals. The session will be recorded by the national Swedish broadcaster Utbildningsradion and eventually aired on Kunskapskanalen!

The order and details of the spotlights may be subject to changes. You register for the session by visiting the registration page and choosing a Friday pass.

Time: 16 August, 10-17:
- 10-12: Opening Ceremony
- 12-13: Lunch
- 13-17: Wikimania Spotlight Session
Place: Aula magna, Stockholm university
Registration: You register at this Eventbrite page; choose "Free Knowledge and SDG Spotlight Session" if you only wish to attend at the Friday session.
Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-Jo0

Opening keynote[edit | edit source]

Michael Peter Edson

Co-Founder, the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live

Share your story about the SDGs

Spotlights[edit | edit source]

	Liv Inger Somby Journalist and Assistant Professor at Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Guovdageaidnu, North-Norway	The Importance of Indigenous Languages – What Are The Challenges With Sámi Languages, One People Living in Four Countries and Nine Languages?
	Ryan Merkley CEO, Creative Commons	Where open and the SDGs converge How a radically open approach will let us move more quickly, with greater innovation, towards a more equitable result.
	Karin Holmgren Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor in Physical Geography, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU	Open science and education for sustainable life The importance of collaboration and communication to find joint solutions to wicked problems
	Tyler Radford Executive Director, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)	Mapping the world we want Citizen-generated data and the SDGs
Coffee Break
	Emanuel Karlsten Journalist, social media expert and digital advisor	Death and resurrection of Journalism How the controversial Copyright directive explained why journalism is worth funding
	Mark Graham Director, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive	Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge The Internet Archive in support of the SDGs
	John Cummings Wikimedian in Residence for UNESCO	What could Wikimedia’s relationship be to the Global Goals and the UN? Examples from UNESCO, including the FindingGLAMs project
	Annika Söder State Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.	Implementing the 2030 Agenda The role of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
Wikimedians and the Global Goals[edit \| edit source] Panel with four prominent Wikimedians, relating the movement's work across the world with 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 Closing Remarks[edit \| edit source]
	Katherine Maher Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation	The role of free knowledge in advancing the SDGs Principles shared between the SDGs and the Wikimedia movement and our goals for 2030