 Thank you. Hello everyone and good morning. My name is Stochie Precious Friday and I'm a founding member of the Igbo Wikimedia and Studio Group, as well as a Wikipedia in residence at the Moskine Foundation. I'm just first of all I want to thank everyone for making out the time to join the session this morning from my end, as well as thanking the Wikimedia team for selecting my presentation. Okay today I'm going to be talking about, I'm going to be speaking on a topic, building international cooperation lessons from Afro-curetions. So you just give me a moment to kindly share my screen. Okay, so I'm going to be giving you an intro, which is a brief overview of the Afro-curetion event, our main format, the main elements, the collaboration examples from the Afro-curetion events, our achievements from the various collaborations, and a whole lot others. If you can see my screen, I don't know if you can recognize the image on the screen. This is data obtained from Wikipedia in November 2011. This is an image of geotagged articles on the English Wikipedia. And this is from Mark Graham and a couple of others. So this shows you the various representations like article representations on the English Wikipedia. The dark parts shows that there are not much articles coming from this site. And then you can also see the African continent has so much of the dark side. Now the next is the Afro-curetion and why it started, what it's all about. So this issue of not much articles coming from the African continent led us to the Afro-curetion project why it started. And this is simply because if you've heard, you must have known that there are even more articles on the city of Paris in France than Africa as a continent itself, which led us to the Afro-curetion project. Now the Afro-curetion, which is our main format of trying to bridge this knowledge gap, is an event or a mass Wikipedia editing sessions where articles are written, improved or translated. It's not like the normal edited tone. Afro-curetion events are, they create a context of creativity, knowledge and activism, where participants can deliver on the aims of knowledge production. So when we finish this, the immediate tangible output you can find from every Afro-curetion event are Wikipedia entries on African content by young Africans under a curated team itself and they focus on using African languages. Now I'm going to give you just one feedback from one of the participants of the Afro-curetion. As she said, Afro-curetion made me feel empowered, made me have the realization that representation is vital. And our languages also have a place to be documented for future generations. And this is coming from Precious that she's from South Africa. The main elements for the Afro-curetion events were curatorial teams. That's to say that for each Afro-curetion event that takes place, there has to be a team for the event. And then we had cultural partners. And like I said, Afro-curetion events were not just normal edited tons. We had cultural partners and we had specific event teams. So the event should have a specific team. And then we had articles listed and reference lists as well. We had media communities participating. We had inspirational speakers. They come up to give the participants more enthusiasm on why they should edit Wikipedia and also tell their stories, the stories of Africa. We also had youth participants as well. And we had prizes and we had the dashboard. So these were the main elements of every Afro-curetion event. For 2021 and 2022, we had Afro-curetion event series. There were five of them. And it was on the team of who we are. The goals of that project were to create at least 300 new Wikipedia articles, which would involve five cultural institutions. Cultural institutions were made up of museums, galleries, publishing houses, institutions like tertiary institutions, and so on and so forth. And then deliver the Afro-curetion format. We also wanted to create knowledge across 10 African languages of which one should be a new language added to Wikipedia. And then we wanted to inspire and build the capacity of about 300 new contributors to become knowledge producers themselves and not just consuming the knowledge which were already produced. And we also wanted to build the capacity and support of 20 movement organizers in the 10 African targeted languages. We had events across Mozambique. We had events in South Africa. We had two events in South Africa. We had an event in Zimbabwe. And then we had one event that had a combination of three partners, which were the Politecnico de Milano in Italy. We had the three community user group from Ghana. And then we had the Comedian Tanzania, where the partners for that event. Now, this is a short video. Let me see if it's going to play. Just give me a moment to check the video. All right, this is supposed to be a short video made by Luanda Sasso. She's from South Africa. She's a lawyer from South Africa. And she talked about the Afro-curetion series itself, the story of who we are. It's just a one minute video, can you pay attention on this? Yeah, who we are calls a power that can deny. Who we are is a search. It is a discovery and it is a gift, not just ourselves, but our culture. It is a feeling that we have ourselves. It's not like that. It's valuable and evolving. With each generation holding itself, the way it wishes to be seen, not for the other, but for themselves. Who we are sends the breath of all words and all our managers, both there and alive. It is in our unresolved mutations and agreements. It is both eating and entrenched. It spreads the breath of extremes across all of this talent and it is human. It's clear who we are in honor of those who never asked and who deny the powers to clear themselves. Thank you. So this was in partnership with Constitution Hill, a Thali Publishing, the Wikimedia Foundation itself being a funding partner, as well as other partners. This is an image of the participant, a cross-session of participants of the Afro-curetion project from the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, which took place in February this year. Then this is also an image of participants from the Afro-curetion event in Zimbabwe as well. We had two days' events in Zimbabwe. Now, the Who We Are Afro-curetion series for 2021-22 was in partnership with Wikimedia Foundation, Foundation Aurora. Our Afro-curetion events were engaging in five communities on the continent and linking some members of the diaspora as well. There were people from China, there were people from Taiwan, there were people from various parts of Africa and also various parts of the continent, including Europe itself that wanted to contribute to the story of Africa in their own languages. Knowledge was created responding to the curatorial team of Who We Are. There were 234 participants across the five projects and they were mainly between the ages of 25 and from various communities on the continent as well as off the continent. We had over 970 articles and they were created in 13 languages, which included 10 African languages and Chinese, Italian and some other languages from other places as well. Now, these are stories or should I say, these are various aspects of the international corporations that we had, the various lessons. Through the Afro-curetion event, we observed a great number of collaborations and these collaborations were between the students and the young people. So, for instance, in the polytechnical event, you had Pei Lening, we had examples of article productions where students collaborated to add one article, like one article title in two different platforms. So, let's take, for example, an article on Chimamanda Adichie was written in a particular language in Wikipedia and also in Wikipedia. So, they were collaborating to write about one thing but in various platforms. There was also cross-language collaboration where they worked together to make one article available in different languages as well. So, there were people writing in Chinese, there were people writing in Fossa, there were people writing in Wolof and they wanted to make just knowledge about wanting available in various languages. There was also encouragement and teamwork across participants' communities. We observed they encouraged one another even when they were in different continents. Some of the events were online and we noticed that they encouraged one another. During the ALA event, which is the African Leadership Academy event, we noticed student leaders, some were just rallying around on their own to assist others. They were teaching one another on how to do things. These are images of the different participants from different continents. Some were Egyptians, some were from Ethiopia, some from Algeria. Then during the Mozambique event, which was online, we saw participants helping each other to answer technical queries, giving language support and also finding translations from specific words. So, you hear people, how do you say this in Makua and then you get to hear different feedback and support from others. Now, when it comes to partners, the collaboration we saw through the partners, we noticed that after preparation taught us that being a part of a community makes us feel as though we're part of something greater than ourselves. And it also gives you the opportunities to connect with people and to reach for goals that outside of your own reach as an individual, we're achieving them collaboratively. Now, Mozambique event, the highlight of that event was the Cultural Reflections session, which was led by the Foundational Aurora CEO, Matazaki. Students were led to a session of introspective questions about their participation in the event to help reflect on the experience and the importance of the Afro curation. And during the curatorial statement video, having a clear team as well for partners to react was also very important and crucial. And we got to see the different partners making videos and giving curatorial teams for the event itself. The statement and video from the Zaksa of Constitution, he helped to connect each partner to our vision. It simply meant that the video was not meant for South Africa alone. It helped the other partners to connect to the team of events. During the Polytechnic event, there was a pre-Afro curation event to meet each other and break down the team. It became something we learned was very important during the series. And one of the best ones was the biggest effort put in and largest payoffs and result was that of Polytechnic, the Milano Web and Professor Anna Barbara, unpacked the concept of behind the Africa Designs Features. That was the team for the Polytechnic event. And she did it with so much clarity and ease that all groups, including people from Tanzania, people from Ghana, were able to engage and understand the team clearly. Achievements from the various collaborations, we had digitization of language and cultures. The international cooperation between Morskine and the partners, students and affairs in Afro curation brought about digitization of the Endangad language, Emma Kua in Mozambique. Emma Kua was a language spoken by seven million people and it had no digital footprint. So it made it kind of difficult to see any territory about the language online.