Dear Shola
This is truely awesome. I am really happy of this new development.
On a practical note... how long is each session ? and do you have a
planning of the topics you intend to raise in the coming months ?
anything special to expect ?
I really need to do an update on the website and the wiki page of all
the recent activities !
Flo
Le 28/08/2017 à 12:30, Jack Rabah a écrit :
Dear Shola and all,
Thank you for sharing the press release. This is such great news. I
remember when you told me about this potential idea and how passionate
the Nigerian user group were about this opportunity. It's amazing to
see the hard work you all put in to this and now a partnership is born.
As you know, radio is huge in Nigeria and especially for reaching many
people in rural areas. But with this radio station, raising awareness
about Nigerian women is something to be proud of.
I cannot wait to work closely with you all on this great project.
Kind regards,
Jack
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Olushola Olaniyan
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear all,
We write to congratulate all our members for our participation at
the official signing of MOU for media partnership with WFM91.7,
the station for women and their family.
The project also seek to create more awareness about wikipedia
through a weekly radio broadcast.
See the press release below:
Wikimedia Nigeria ( WUGN) an affiliate of Wikimedia Foundation,
san francisco, US and Wfm91.7 the radio station for women and
their family are partnering to give visibility to Nigerian women.
The signing of the memorandum of understanding took place at the
radio official Headquarter on the 23rd of August 2017 . The
partnership is the first of its kind in Africa.
The signing of the MOU was witnessed by Olaniyan Olushola the
President of WUGN and Toun Sonaiya, the CEO of WFM91.7. Also in
attendance is Ayokanmi Oyeyemi the director of media and
communication, WUGN and some other members of the community. Also
from the side of WFM91.7, were: Nike Fabiyi , the manager in
charge of sales and other members of the station
As part of the partnership is a project tagged Wiki Loves Women.
The project project was conceptualised by Isla haddow and
Florence Anthere in the year 2015 to give visibility to African
women on wikipedia. Being a pan African initiative the project
started In four African country namely Nigeria, Ghana, CIV and
Cameroon.
In the word of Mr. Olaniyan Olushola, the project seek to
encourage the contribution of quality information on African women
to be published on, and made widely available via, Wikipedia.
We also seek wish to use the project to correct gender
inequalities on wikipedia, the world largest encylopedia, with
statics showing 16.% of women biography profiled on the platform
in contrast to their male counterpart. We plan to engage female
students from our various tertiary institutions across the country
on how they can create content on wikipedia so as to increase our
local contents on the platform and also to create awareness for
Wikipedia in Nigeria.
Toun said, WFM91.7 as an organizarion is excited to see the birth
of this partnership because it is a confirmation of the station
unalloyed commitment to promote Nigerian women.
As part of the agreement, Iyalode Alaba Lawson. the first female
President of Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and indurstry was
unanimously selected to be the face of the project in Nigeria.
This is to recognise her doggedness as a unique force in the
promotion of numerous women projects in Nigeria.
The project is poised to create awareness for Wikipedia in
Nigeria. The launching of this project will address the outcome
of global outreach survey conducted in 7 countries where internet
is widely used across the globe. Nigeria was selected in Africa
as a sample country. Result shows that only 27% Nigerians are
aware of Wikipedia. And among this population 47% are students.
Hence the need to focus on this group.
End.
Expecting your reactions.
Olushola
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