Centre for Internet & Society

CIS-A2K team is organizing a two-day Wikimedia Summit event for the participants taking part in the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin.

Wikimedia Summit India 2019 is an national-level event which intends to prepare representatives of various user groups, affliates, committees, groups, and teams associated to Wikimedia foundation from India who are going to attend in Wikimedia Summit 2019 and helping them understand about Movement Strategy process.

The Wikimedia Summit 2019 (WMSummit 19) will be designed along the needs and status of the Movement Strategy Process and its Working Groups, as well as the participants’ input. The 2019 event will be an important milestone of the Movement Strategy Process.

Wikimedia Summit India 2019 will serve following goals:

  • Helping participants understand Ongoing phase in movement strategy process: Some of the participants are participating in Movement strategy process' ongoing phase in different capacities, while others might not have a good understanding about it. This conference aims to improve understanding about strategy process especially regarding 9 strategy Working groups and their scoping.
  • Preparation for WMSummit 19: The Summit will be an occasion where the affiliates’ and WMF’s leadership will come together to check in on the broader direction of the Strategy Process, with the opportunity to reinforce their co-ownership in this process. All Working Groups will have reached the point in their work where they prepare to draft and discuss first recommendations within their thematic area. From Indian Wikimedia movement's perspective, this offers them an opportunity to share their experience in different thematic areas of strategy process and help the broader movement strategy to have different perspectives. Also, this helps Indian Wikimedia movement to utilize experiences and learnings from different areas of Wikimedia movement and utilize them to grow the movement in India exponantially. Wikimedia Summit India 2019 also aims on gathering the collective and diverse experiences and learnings of Indian Wikimedia movement and understand where they can help in movement strategy process.

Schedule

Friday - 15 March 2019
  • 6:30 PM to 8 PM: Introductions
Saturday - 16 March 2019
  • 9:30 AM to 10 AM: Introduction to WMSummit India 2019
  • 10 AM to 11:30 AM: Strategy Process: Necessity, Strategic direction 2030, Timeline
  • 11:30 AM to 1 PM: Reinforcing co-ownership in Strategy process: How communities and affliates can be part of process
  • 1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch
  • 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM: Potential Impact of Strategy process
  • 2:30 PM to 5 PM: Introducing various working groups: Working group representatives will be requested to explain over video calls
Sunday - 17 March 2019
  • 10 AM to 10:20 AM: Working group scoping documents' introduction
  • 10:20 AM to 12 PM: Various community learnings and to what working group's scope they matter: Group activity
  • 12 PM to 1 PM:
  • 1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch
  • 1:30 to 2:30: Way forward: Consulting their community and framing agenda before WMSummit 2019

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