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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue VIII, August 2024

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AvoinGLAM at Wikimania

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Open Knowledge Network meeting at Wikimania

Members of the Open Knowledge Network convened for a day dedicated to strategic planning at the Metallurgy Museum in Chorzów, near Katowice, Poland before Wikimania. We mapped threats and opportunities in the current digital ecosystem and indulged in dreaming about how to solve some of those challenges collectively.

We neglected our energy of hope, we should start dreaming again. We should be making a collective effort to plant the seed of hope in the young generation. Hope is a discipline.

The most urgent threats in the digital ecosystem perceived were issues related to access to education and digital literacy, unsustainable big tech business models, data colonialism, misinformation, power concentration, social injustice, and the challenges of maintaining openness and democracy.

Let's discuss these together in the spirit of Wikimania's theme, Collaboration of the Open!

AI Sauna at Wikimania

Susanna Ånäs joined the panel Wikimedia & GenAI: A 360 movement panel one year later along with Shani Evenstein, Jimmy Wales, Sandra Fauconnier, Alek Tarkowski, Maryana Pintschuk, Andrew Lih, and Yamen Bousrih. The invitation was related to the AI Sauna event AvoinGLAM arranged in May, which was introduced in the session Löyly of AI Sauna.

The T-shirt Susanna is wearing is by the Wiki Loves Living Heritage in Ghana project. Maxwell Beganim, Sadik Shahadu and Joris Darlington work together with the National Folklore Board, continuing the project AvoinGLAM & European Network of Focal Points for the UNESCO ICH Convention started in 2023.

AvoinGLAM was accompanied by up to 10 people in the Finnish delegation from Wikimedia Finland, Wikitongues, Marginaalimerkintöjä (Notes on the Margins) project and others. Kimmo Virtanen (WMFI) presented a lightning talk Scalable duplicate photo detection for Wikimedia Commons. Kristen Tcherneshoff (Wikitongues) presented in the round table Supporting minority languages and Wikimedia's global community. Ona de Gibert from University of Helsinki remotely presented Wikipedia's Role in Preserving Minority Languages through Open Technology.

AvoinGLAM in Inari

AvoinGLAM participates in the work of the Support for Sámi languages in digital services project by the National Library of Finland. The Steering Committee held its last meeting in Inari, and were welcomed by Siida, the Sámi Museum in Finland as well as the Sámi Languages Office at the Sámi Parliament of Finland.

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