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Creative Commons, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Future, and Wikimedia Europe hosted a day-long side event to Wikimania 2024. The event took in Katowice, Poland, on 6 August 2024, the day before Wikimania kicked off on 7 August 2024.
Wikimania 2024 is the biggest meeting of open movement activists and organizations this year. It offers a rare occasion for activists to meet in person.
We have made use of this opportunity to bring together those working in the field of Openness, Free Knowledge, and the Digital Commons to talk about shared advocacy strategies: the political challenges of Knowledge Commons.
Our 55+ participants were people already planning to attend Wikimania as well as those who came especially to attend our side event.
The event’s goal was to establish relationships needed to design a shared advocacy vision that, over time, can result in stronger, collaborative advocacy work. To this end, we focused on three topics:
There are few opportunities to bring together the movement’s most engaged participants and discuss shared strategies for advocacy and ways of moving forward together. Wikimania’s 2024 motto is “Collaboration of the Open.” Our one-day side event to Wikimania was an opportunity to bring this motto to life. A report capturing the learnings and outcomes of the event will be published in a few weeks.
