Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/AfricaCROWD

AfroCROWD Presents AfricaCROWD: Wikipedia Resources for Africa and Africans

AfricaCROWD project description / lede [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Past event

 * For the May 2015 event, please see archived event page here.

AfricaCROWD
Explore Wikipedia resources for and about Africa and Africans, including resources in English, French and African languages such as Yoruba, Twi, Igbo etc.

AfroCROWD workshops aim to advance the” development” principles of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent. The Black Twitter phenomenon in the U.S. and the use of Face book in the Americas shows that Afrodescendants have capitalized on social media as an organizing tool. Exposing more Afrodescendants to Wikimedia has the potential to take this journey a step further and transfer skills that might deepen Afrodescendant exploration of online technology. By using such platforms to develop and maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Spanish or Yoruba, Afrodescendant communities thereby contribute to the survival of and increase in their proficiency in those languages while also feeling more culturally grounded.