 UK SDGs Arabia Initiative Introductory Session in Wikimedia 2021. This video has been recorded, but we are active during the live presentation for any inquiries in the chat box. 2013 is an important day for the globe in general and Wikimedia movement in particular. Wikimedia Foundation strives to be the basic infrastructure for an ecosystem of free and open knowledge by 2030. And by 2030, the world aims to end poverty, protect the planet, achieve prosperity and peace for all citizens through implementing the 17 interlinked goals SDGs issued by the United Nations. Some countries have to achieve some goals, especially developed countries. However, the Arab world has to start implementing almost all of the SDGs. Since the situation in the Arab region is still far from achieving the SDGs due to the different reasons. Therefore, we have to raise awareness and assess the gravity of the current and future situation to overcome the challenge and make a change. In addition to raising awareness, Wikis SDGs Arabia Initiative aims to create ways to implement them in the Arab region through the channels, projects of Wikimedia movement and partnerships with different parties. The organizers, Murfud Salman and Nonor Garabedian are active users of Arabic Wikipedia and community. We are leading this initiative and believe in its importance. This kind of leadership can be classified as woman empowerment and meets with the fifth SDG's goal, gender equality. The idea beyond the initiative arose after conducting the webinar Save Environments Secure Future on the 22nd of May as part of Wiki for Human Rights Campaign 2021. The webinar hosted active users from Wikimedia movement and members from a local organization as it targeted Arab speakers in Sweden. So how does Wiki SDGs Arabia meet the recommendation of Wikimedia movement? The initiatives actually meet with two of the recommendations, increase the sustainability of our movement through support environmental sustainability practices, increase Wikimedia awareness and funding for under-presented communities. And the initiative is also committed to another recommendation, identify topics for impact by identify Wikimedia's impact, bridging content gaps and content initiatives in under-represented communities. All right, so what data and information about the Arab world, the Wikimedia and the other resources may offer in this regard? For the purpose of getting an updated view about the current situation in the Arab community or the Arab world in general, regarding the implementation of SDGs, we used a questionnaire to collect some data about how much people know about SDGs and the desire of these people to volunteer to achieve the goals. The questionnaire we use targeted a random sample of the Arab Wikimedians and other users too. The questions of the questionnaire were related to the verbose that we never mentioned before. So about the participants, almost half of the participants were less than 25 years old, and this is what we classify as youth. So this is what we really target in our initiative. The next question aimed to get some insight on how much participants know about SDGs, how they know there are sustainability goals, and the majority had never heard about SDGs. Almost 45% of those who did not know about SDGs, but 28% of the participants heard about it, but with little knowledge. 89% of the participants agreed that SDGs can influence the future decisions, but 4% of the participants thought that sustainability is luxury. 77% of participants have the desire to volunteer to achieve the SDGs, which is encouraging. Actually, this is what we really want. However, only 24 of the participants who would want to volunteer can only volunteer with up to four hours a week. Who does WikiSDGs Arabian Initiative target? The targeted audience is divided actually into three groups. Wikimedians encourage them to participate in the related activities such as editathons of Earth Day and Women in Climate Change or in photo contents, etc. The second part, expertise specialists and organization interested in SDGs, and the last but most important group of all, and our primary focus actually is for the students and youth, then they are the most affected group by the life of achieving SDGs. So we will contact our all Arab user groups and individuals who manage projects to encourage and support them in practicing in events by providing them with articles, information, data, reminding them about the event's dates and helping them contact activities within their communities. And we see the second target group with Murphat. So the initiative, as Nanor mentioned previously, as you have seen in the introduction, the initiative was inspired by the last webinar, which was hosted in May. Thus, we will conduct more webinars that was inspiring and we think that more webinars would encourage more people. We will invite experts instead interested in the environment, in the education, gender equality, and economy to discuss one or more of the 17 goals. And by experts, we really mean not only the highest degrees, those who have degrees, but also university students and degree holders like masters and environmentalists. We will invite Arab speakers in different countries to raise their awareness as well about SDGs and to encourage them to create individual and group initiatives to help weigh the burden in the Arab world. And furthermore, recording short deals, presenting reports and statistics to update the available data and information and seek partnerships as well with other projects and organizations. Now we will present the last group and our primary focus, which is students and teachers. The youth, students of all levels, will be affected by most this is the most affected, say, people by the decision of ignoring the SDGs by 2030, after 10 years, if we don't act now and take the necessary measures to reduce the impacts of climate change as advised by the environmentalists, the impact will be huge. For students, we may use interactive material to encourage them and for teachers, we may introduce success stories from the education programs around the world. We have to focus on work media as a reliable platform to start with. They can rely on that as it ensures the access to information and knowledge. As we are initiating the project of a scope that hasn't been recognized previously in the region, we expect many challenges. But talking about obstacles, we can think of specific challenges and obstacles, actually. So the main is how we reach out to the affected target youth, how we can access them. We can overcome this challenge by defining the challenge, the challenge through which we can access youth, for example, through educational institutes and organize campaigns to raise awareness and encourage youth to join the project and define the best ways that help them implement SDGs in their life. And that can be done using Wikipedia and sister projects as a free platform. The second challenge we thought of is fundraising. So the initiative requires continual funds for implementation and I mean, the awareness campaigns also need to prepare educational materials which requires money. Another challenge is raising awareness and encourage the target audience, the target people to put more effort into volunteering. This is important. Implementation of SDGs in the Arab region requires serious efforts and serious desires to volunteer. And the last thing here is encouraging the organizations which have some interests to partner with us and to exchange their experiences with us as well. Finally, we would like to encourage all of you who are sending us to participate in any initiative or project related to SDGs. Collaboration among groups and affiliates is also encouraged. We will come any thoughts, any feedback, any support and suggestions are highly appreciated. You can contact us by email or through the talk pages, the talk page of our project on the back. We would like to thank you.