2024:Program/Inspiring Open: The Evolution of a Gender-Focused podcast
Session title: Inspiring Open: The Evolution of a Gender-Focused podcast
- Session type: Poster
- Track: Diversity & Inclusion
- Language: en
In 2022, the Wiki Loves Women team at Wiki In Africa launched the Inspiring Open podcast. The podcast featured 16 women from across Africa whose success inspires many in the fields in which they work. Much of this inspiration comes from their deliberate (and sometimes innate) application of "open values" to their careers. This poster will feature the voices of these open movement advocates in unexpected fields. They will also feature some of the newer voices from the Wikimedia Movement captured at Wikimania Singapore.
Description
[edit | edit source]Wiki Loves Women’s Inspiring Open podcast launched in early 2022 to showcase exceptional women leaders across Africa and beyond. The podcast was hosted by Ghanian journalist and gender activist, Betty Kankam-Boadu. It featured groundbreaking women leaders across Africa.
The Inspiring Open podcast has slowly evolved due to the lack of funding beyond the initial pilot of 16 women. We now interview women within the open movements, specifically the Wikimedia Movement. A call will be made via the poster to nominate female voices from the Wikimedia Movement.
Inspiring Open links:
- Inspiring Open podcast website: https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org/
- Inspiring Open on WLW website: https://www.wikiloveswomen.org/about-the-project/2658-2/
- Twitter: @wikiloveswomen
- Instagram: @wikiloveswomen
- YouTube Playlist; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvyE0yEt-BKgRi2lZEz2Y38Fwi-t8JZv7
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
This podcast has not confined itself to the Wikimedia movement. It showcases women from the open movement and beyond – whose ethos of 'open' and community has inspired others to be involved in the fields and sectors that they lead. This is to showcase inspiring women, and also to show that 'open' is more than a formal movement, it is an attitude to how you approach your career and life.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
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[edit | edit source]Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Islahaddow
- Isla is the co-executive director and founder of Wiki In Africa. She has been a Wikipedian since 2011, co-creating projects that activate Africa’s collective voice and experiences through the Wikimedia and Open movements. She co-leads ground-breaking Africa-focused projects such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Women, WikiAfrica Hour, African Environment WikiFocus, ISA Tool, WikiFundi, and WikiChallenge Écoles d’Afrique. She also works part-time as Director of Communications for Open Education Global.
- Isla is a project and communications strategist, a Zimbabwean by birth and a Capetonian (South Africa) by adoption. She is passionate about open access to Africa’s knowledge and facilitating the growth of previously under-represented or ‘invisible’ communities to share their stories, experiences, creativity, and heritage with the world.
- In 2019, Isla was a member of the Advocacy Working Group for the completed Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030. In 2020, she researched, wrote, and published an analytical report on the motivations, needs, expectations, and philosophical intentions of Creative Commons’ Global Network members. The report is compiled from the thoughts and experiences of 188 Creative Commoners members.
- Before working within the WikiAfrica movement, she was the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Africa Centre, raising the brand and national profile of event-based arts brands. Before that, she worked as a writer to accelerate and support the growth of Africa’s film industry both as a skilled destination and a burgeoning creative force.