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Wikimedia Brazil has formed a partnership with a public policy research institute
New partnerships - CEM
Wikimedia Brazil has signed a new partnership for 2025 with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) at Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Coordinated by economist and journalist Edney Cielici Dias, the center conducts research in social sciences, such as public policies, inequality and urban issues. The partnership with WMB will enable digital, media and information literacy for CEM members, in addition to improving content on Wiki about topics related to the center's research.
Wikiversity Workshop - Observatory of Latin American Women Intellectuals
On February 20, Wikimedia Brazil held a workshop so members of the "Observatory of Latin American Women Intellectuals" project (at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ) could learn about Wikiversity.
The research group focuses on analyzing the presence of female intellectuals from Latin America on different digital platforms. The workshop sought to encourage undergraduate and graduate students in literature at UERJ to use the platform and promote open science.
Emergence of digital university extension: good practices and directions
Wikimedia Brasil members João Alexandre Peschanski, Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno and Alexander Maximilian Hilsenbeck Filho just published the paper "Emergence of digital university extension: good practices and directions", available at: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/textolivre/article/view/56372/47566.
The research presents good practices of Digital University Extension through empirical cases that use Wiki resources with a focus on technological sovereignty, the institutionalization of projects and the development of open educational resources.
The paper also provides a historical overview of extension practices in Brazil, indicates the challenges of university education in the digital society of the 21st century, and presents the growing orientation for universities to develop contemporary skills related to digital extension activities.