Education/News/November 2017/WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique
The WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique kicks in 4 francophones African countries
Author: Anthere
Summary:
The WikiChallenge African Schools is a writing contest held in primary schools in several African countries (Mali, Tunisia, Madagascar, and Guinea). The contest takes place during October and November 2017 with primary school children adding Vikidia articles using the WikiFundi software.
The total number of schools that registered for the contest amounted to over 100 (though it is unlikely that all of those will participate in the end...). Most, if not all, of those schools are not connected to the Internet, which has raised special and interesting challenges. The contest is supported by the Orange Foundation. Locally, staff from Orange offices or from friends of Orange are in contact with the schools and facilitate the training the teachers and provide support to the schools.
- The local activities may be followed (to a certain extent...) here on a Facebook dedicated page .
- A beautiful story about the contest may be found here in French.
- View event images at this category link
Tags: education, africa, wikiafrica, wikifundi