After launching the first public event in Douala on the 6th of August 2016, it was important to move to a more practical phase and start creating encyclopaedic articles. The meeting which took place on Saturday 13th of August 2016 helped us creating the article on Elisabeth Medou Badang.
On the 10th October, 2016 Wikimedia UG Nigeria, Bestspring Foundation, Goethe Institut and WikiAfrica co-hosted Wiki Loves Women event at Goethe Institut in Lagos, Nigeria. The event was tagged: Women in Social Services: Promoting SDG in Nigeria. In attendance are stakeholders in social services in Nigeria. The program contributed over 50 images to Wikimedia commons … Read More
The African Summit on Girls and Women in Technology was held from the 13-14th September 2016 at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra.The event sought to bring together women on the African continent who were playing diverse roles in the tech sphere and to set up an agenda in getting more women in ICT. The … Read More
It was a carnival-like atmosphere in the city of Abuja for two days, when Project Pink Blue co-hosted Wiki Loves Women in collaboration with Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN), WikiAfrica, and Goethe Institut . The event titled Inspired Women: Health and Community aimed at commemorating Nigerian women within and outside the country. It took place on … Read More
In continuation of one of the core objectives of Wiki Loves Women in Africa and also coping with the yearning of some of our country leading NGO, CEE-HOPE Nigeria re-invited Wikimedia UG Nigeria for another session of edit-a-thorn at their office premise on the 15th August, 2016. The event expanded and created new article pages … Read More
Digital Thursday is a community network pulled by businesses, investors and innovators to discuss digital orientations, share knowledge, stimulate new ideas and move things along. To this effect, a monthly event is organised each Thursday in a shape of an afterwork and regrouping all the digital actors wishing to exchange about new trends and latest … Read More
Saturday 25th of June 2016, a edit-a -thon took place at the Goethe Institute in Yaoundé in Cameroon, with the main themes being : creating articles in wikipédia, introducing Wiki Loves Women project and the writing competition Wikivillages. It was the first time most of the volunteers working on the different projects and activities organised … Read More
Following the wikithon on Saturday 16th of July, the participants decided to meet up on Saturday 26th Of July at the Goethe Institut Kamerun in Yaoundé. During this meeting, the article on Pascale Obolo, artist, producer and director from Cameroon has been created.
Invited as a panelist on Tuesday 26th of July 2016 at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé as part of the “Africa Femmes digitales” forum, Georges Fodouop was asked to talk about the Wiki Loves Women project through the theme: Women and their visibility on Internet: Wikipédia’s case. The main theme of the forum was … Read More
It’s finally done. It is now possible to for all volunteers from Douala to meet up for the wikithons and other linked events. Indeed, in order to promote the activities linked to Wiki Loves Women project, a partnership has been created with ActivSpaces to create the Wiki Africa community. ActiveSpaces is a Tech incubator and its … Read More