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Session title: Information integrity on Climate Change on Wikimedia projects: enhancing collaboration and promoting Wikimedia strategies from the Global South

Session type: Pre-conference event
Track: Partnerships
Language: en

In 2024, the government of Brazil, alongside the UN and UNESCO, launched the “Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change”. This multistakeholder effort is an ambitious drive to promote the United Nations Global Principles For Information Integrity, particularly in climate change related topics. These UN Global Principles are aligned with several of Wikimedia’s most relevant principles.

In this Pre-Conference, we'll explore how the Wikimedia communities from the Global South are building trustworthy information online on climate change from local and regional perspectives, and how some of those strategies could serve a larger ecosystem of stakeholders. The goal is to share best practices among Wikimedia communities, including how to identify knowledge gaps on content that could potentially be exploited for disinformation, and create plans for cross-regional initiatives that help address them in global languages, with partners such as UN agencies like UNEP and FAO.

Description

This Pre-Conference (side event) is being put forward by the Working Group on Climate Justice and Wikimedia Projects, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation and UNEP regional office in LATAM and Nairobi headquarters. This Pre-Conference has the following goals:

  • Promote awareness on how the Wikimedia communities are a fundamental part of promoting and protecting information integrity on climate change in the digital ecosystem.
  • Explore how Wikimedia communities strategies, methodologies and tools, help in identifying knowledge gaps and help improve coverage of underserved topics on climate change.
  • Create collaborative and cross-regional initiatives, alongside with global partners such as UN agencies, to help bridge information gaps in languages other than English, such as the Wiki for Human Rights Campaign, among others that could be explored or imagined.
  • Foster South-South collaboration among Wikimedia communities focused on climate change as a topic of impact.

In order to accomplish these goals, the Pre-Conference will be focused on bringing together panels, open discussions and workshops. This event would include:

  • Panel on Information Integrity on Climate Change (by UNEP and partners). What is it and why is it relevant for the Wikimedia movement?
  • Wikimedia perspectives from LAC, Africa and MENA on organizing for Information Integrity on Climate Change (Wiki for Human Rights Campaign, Working Group on Climate Justice and Wikimedia Projects, Wiki-Green Conference, Green Digital Skills course, etc).
  • “Mini hack-a-thon”: showcase of practical tools, strategies and examples for identifying knowledge gaps on climate change topics
  • Discussion: Identifying strategic opportunities to improve Wikimedia communities role on promoting information integrity on climate change, including better and more resilient initiatives such as campaigns, training, research projects, among others.

By the end of the Pre-Conference, we expect participants will be able to better understand the importance of information integrity on climate change, connect it with other areas of their interest, and build bridges between strategic stakeholders and the Wikimedia movement. By learning the expectations and needs of multilateral organizations on information integrity for climate change, we will be able to be better allies in identifying knowledge gaps and devising and developing initiatives that serve those expectations and needs.

How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 – Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?

Information integrity is a cornerstone of Wikimedia projects, but oftentimes our partners and allies in the global arena that care about these topics don’t see us as a partner and ally in building a healthier information ecosystem. This means we lose strategic opportunities to show the relevance of Wikimedia projects and communities to fill in information gaps, to provide better coverage of underserved topics, and to drive initiatives that create digital literacy skills with vast swaths of the population. This Pre-Conference proposal aims to build bridges with other partners and collectively increase our impact, reaching out to more communities and funding opportunities, which are key for sustainability.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

This session is for an experienced audience

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Speakers

  • Luisina Ferrante (WMAR)
I am Programme Manager at Wikimedia Argentina. I have been working at Wikimedia Argentina for 10 years, for 9 years I was the Coordinator of the Education and Human Rights Program at Wikimedia Argentina. I am a university professor at the University of San Andrés, Argentina. I have a Master in Public Policy and Human Rights and a PhD in Education and Society, my PhD thesis is linked to the experience of digital literacy teaching and Wikimedia projects in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.
  • Evelin Heidel
Program Director, Wikimedistas de Uruguay.
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