Wikimedia Summit 2024/Program
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Session format | - Plenary session | - Working groups | ||
Online participation | - Live stream and recording | - Real time interactive online tool | ||
Language support | - Simultaneous interpretation (French) | - AI-based translation software (English subtitles) |
Day 1 - Friday, 19 April 2024
[edit ]Note: all times are CEST. Click on the time for the live streamed sessions to check your local time.
Bus shuttle will be organized to commute from the hotel to the venue.
Keynote from Amitabh Behar, Executive Director of Oxfam
Capture the participants' initial feedback on the Movement Charter.
Form participants groups that will work on specific topics.
All topics can be found here
Develop an understanding of the feedback, identify common themes and explore wider considerations
Day 2 - Saturday, 20 April 2024
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Bus shuttle will be organized for participants commute from the hotel to the venue
Welcome, review and preview.
Develop initial outputs*
Gather first feedback on the outputs from all Summit participants
Prioritising purposes & Learning
Visioning & deciding on key characteristics
Gather final feedback on the outputs from all Summit participants
Bus shuttle from the party location to the hotel: midnight and 01:00
(*)Outputs may take different forms, including:
- Celebration of the Movement Charter (Great! We like it!)
- Suggestion or improvements (would like this to be changed but can live with it if it’s not; something to consider)
- Deal-breakers and alternative language (as per MCDC request, things that would keep us from voting for the charter)
- Considerations outside or beyond the charter text (such as input into implementation, for supplementary documentation, or things entirely not covered by charter)
Day 3 - Sunday, 21 April 2024
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Summary and preview
Who is willing to step up and take on responsibility?
Participants discuss matters related to the implementation of movement strategy.
Topics for working groups
[edit ]Several working groups will be formed to discuss specific aspects of the Movement Charter and movement governance. Participants can choose which working group they want to join based on their interest and expertise. The working groups will generate outputs on their topics. The organizers will form the working groups based on the participants preferences and apply a diversity matrix to ensure plurality of perspectives.
- Global Council: Purpose and resources
[Purpose statement; Global Council budget, Global Council staffing]
- Global Council: Global Council and WMF
[Respective areas of responsibility; Cooperation]
- Global Council: Representation and Composition
[Diversity; Membership Global Council Assembly and Global Council Board; Number and distribution of seats]
- Affiliates and Hubs: Purpose
[Purpose; Mandate; Community representation; Affiliate Budget(s)]
- Affiliates and Hubs: Rights, responsibilities, roles and types
[Types of affiliates; Affiliate strategy/landscape; Movement growth; Sustainability]
- Affiliates and Hubs: Collaborations and capacity building
[Collaboration; Learning and peer support; Decentralization; Capacity building]
- Financial resources: Resource development (fundraising)
[Revenue diversification; Revenue growth; Capacity building for fundraising; Fundraising policy]
- Financial resources: Resource distribution (grantmaking)
[Geographic distribution; Decision-making about funding; Global budget]