Dear Sound very interesting. I would love to hear more about it.
Regards Twin Mosia 083 986 1855 On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, 17:51 Bobby Shabangu, <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Anyone interested in joining me for further discussions here? > > Regards, > Bobby Shabangu > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Kastner, Stefanie <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 16:04 > Subject: Hack your Culture and Wikipedia > To: Bobby Shabangu <[email protected]> > Cc: Kgolo Lekoma <[email protected]>, Lethabo Sekhu < > [email protected]> > > > Dear Bobby, > > > > I hope this message finds you well! > > > > Besides “Decolonise the Internet” we are preparing at the moment a second > project that could be interesting for you. > > > > The Goethe-Institut South Africa > < > https://www.google.com/maps/search/South+Africa+%0D%0A+Johannesburg+%0D%0A+119%0D%0A+Jan+Smuts+Avenue?entry=gmail&source=g > > > wants to organize a *cultural hackathon* under the title “Hack your > Culture” in September/October 2020. This cultural hackathon in > collaboration with different African partner institutions is based on the > idea of the project “Coding da Vinci” (https://codingdavinci.de/about/*)* > > With its launch in Berlin, in 2014, *Coding da Vinci* has grown to become a > well-established part of the open cultural data landscape. > > The long-term mission of *Coding da Vinci* is to create lasting structures > within which cultural institutions and interested sectors of *civil > society* > can work together through *open data*. > > What kind of *creative possibilities* can be realized if digitalized > cultural data is made freely available and reusable? > > Digital accessibility of artifacts has the effect of changing the > relationship between cultural institutions and culturally interested > people: if the digital counterparts of physical originals can be copied, if > they can be modified, edited, and made available everywhere through the > internet, the visitor is empowered and can actively participate in the > creation of culture. Rather than just consuming knowledge, they have the > possibility to spread, enrich, re-contextualize, and work with it in order > to create new knowledge. > > > > What could be your part in this? > > We would like to ask if Wikimedia South Africa would be interested to > collaborate in the cultural hackathon we are organizing. Would you be > interested in providing us with open data, metadata or any other content > from your institution that is placed under an open license? > > The data will then be used during a Hackathon - an event where participants > have a specific amount of time to develop *software applications or > visualizations with open data*. > > > > We would be very happy to talk to you for further information! Would you > maybe be available during the week from 29th June on? If yes what day and > time would suit you best? > > > > Best, > > > > Stefanie > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Stefanie Kastner > > Leiterin Information mit Regionalauftrag > Head of Information Services Sub-Saharan Africa > > Library – Gamebox - Hub > > Goethe-Institut South Africa > > Johannesburg > > 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood 2193 > > +27 11 5372949 > > [email protected] > > www.goethe.de/johannesburg > Twitter: @goethejoburg > Facebook: goethe.joburg > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
