Thank you Abel! That would be great. Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.aflia.net AfLIA, Connecting Africa's Library and Information Communities "Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 10:37 am Abel L MBULA, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nkem, > > Welcome in the community. > > We are wikimedians from the Dem. Rep of the Congo, and would be happy to > help web.aflia.net getting in touch with wikipedia and its sister > projects and/or with libriarians from DRC > > Best, > Abel Lifaefi Mbula > > Free Software Dev > Free Culture Enthusiast > > Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send > OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday 19 February 2020 23:09, Nkem Osuigwe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information > Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of > Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more > Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource > for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of > agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards > and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant > proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already > existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information > environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were > developed by OCLC for an American audience. > Felix Nartey introduced me to this group > I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians > all across the continent. > Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community to > help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success > indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed > between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. > You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net > We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to > leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. > I look forward to hearing from anyone here. > Thank you. > > Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN > Human Capacity Development & Training Director, > African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) > P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. > *[email protected] <[email protected]> * > *[email protected] <[email protected]>* > *[email protected] <[email protected]>* > > *Website: www.aflia.net <http://www.aflia.net>* > Facebook /Twitter /Instagram > > > > *"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster > horses." - Henry Ford.* > *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while > imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know > and understand" - Albert Einstein* > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >
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