wikilogia's story and experience in promoting internet collaboration and open source culture
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We all had dreams...
We all had dreams...
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… dreams of access
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… of developing our communities
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and contributing to humanity!
Wikilogia started because we believed those dreams are closer
than any other time
Guess Why?
Tada!
We were able to explore the emerging trend as it was actually happening and as it was
explored
We wrote the first collaborative encyclopedia about the subject in
Arabic
We spread awareness!
Diverse interest groups and communities emerged
Wikisghar: Collaborative Wiki for Kids
Wikitechie: Web 2.0 and Social Platforms
Fablogia: Open Hardware and Digital Fabrication
WikilogiaMED: Open Knowledge and Medicine 2.0
Damascus Girl Geeks: Women Empowerment with Technology
LEN: Peer Learning English, the gateway to the open source world
We continued to grow...
...and grow!
...and diversely grow!
We made a big shift from 'What?' and 'Why?'
[is collaboration, sharing and open source] to 'How?'
[can we really start to make it happen here!]
So we thought it was a good idea to start a
hackerspace the ideal place to start DOING it!
And we actually did!
We started as one-day-a-week hackerspace
People showed up weekly!
Learned together...
...and did things together!
After two years of hard work, we think we built a promising model for local community
development
Our challenge is to keep it growing and make it
sustainable...
There are lot of people who are following us and excited about our
experience!
We think we are closer to our ambition of
replicating Wikilogia, e.g.
WikilogiaXYourArea!
But wait, there are other challenges awaiting
Open and Collaborative culture as well...
What we did was starting to empower communities
Empowering the coming generation and fixing education is a key for open source and collaboration
future
Startups are the means for applying our new ideas into society and
managing the accommodating risks
Open Source and Collaboration is not just about community and
individuals, it is also about corporations and institutions
We started out in a hard time of Syria's
history. We hope our efforts are one of many to build a
promising future.
Wissam Al Jazairy
Please help us by being awesome and joining us!