Wikipedia:Wikipedia African Month/2019

This is the start of a page for December 2019 based on a meeting with the African Diaspora worldwide and the Presiding Officer of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council on 19 December 2019.

This Washington DC meeting between the civil society of the African Union and the civil society of the African Diaspora will be preceded by 5 days of action in November starting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 12 November with the African Diaspora Directorate call for all people of African descent in the USA to unite online and in-person in Washington DC on November 16th at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC.

One of the goals of the meetings in Washington DC in December is to plan to Erase the Digital Divide in the people of African descent worldwide.

Among our tools is -

1. Wikipedia Portal:Africa

2. The new Wikipedia African Diaspora Portal Project, starting December 1st, 2019

3. (Dot).africa, the officially designated Top-level domain (TLD) for the African and Pan African communities and users wherever they reside.

4. The United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent

5. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

6. Universal Periodic Review of Nations with a focus on those of the United States of American in 2020 and those conducted in 2018 on Mexico and Nigeria.

7. Africa Industrialization Week 2019 #AIW2019 This year, November 18th to 22nd 2019, the African Union in collaboration and partners have planned a week-long activities to mark Africa Industrialization Day (AID). Africa Industrialization Week 2019 is themed, “Positioning African Industry to supply the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Market"

8. Within the new Wikipedia, Africa Diaspora Project, as part of the Portal:Africa, create The African Diaspora Directorate Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) page to represent a movement started on December 16th of a restorative justice movement in the United States of America. This work is based, in part, on the work done in South Africa after the end of apartheid. As part of this work histories will be entered into the new Wikipedia African Diaspora Portal Project.

9. Creation of an ask of the government of the United States of America for African-American businesses based on the 2012 US Africa Business Conference, the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding between the African Union and the US Government, the 2014 United States–Africa Leaders Summit, the US State Department Africa Strategy of 2018 and the implementation of the BUILD ACT which in December 2019 creates the United States International Development Finance Corporation.

10. Annual Kwanzaa Accords Review, December 26th, 2019 through December 31st, 2019, this time focused on the people of African Descent in the African Diaspora focused on participation in the African Union and Erasing the Digital Divide in the lives of 1.6B people by 2030.

The coordinator on Wikipedia is Friends of the African Union.