Climate Justice, Digital Rights and Indigenous Voices Wikimedia event in Huaraz, Peru

Wikimedistas por los Territorios

Weaving Knowledge networks in South America

Context

• 2021

Wikiproyecto Cambio Climático / Climate Change

3 editatons (April, June, November) (diff)

189 translated, 18 created, 170 improved, 37 participants

• 2022

Wiki For Human Rights regional campaign

84 translated, 48 created

talleres, paneles, concursos, paseos f.

WMAR, WMCH, WMCO, WAPerú, WMMX, WMLP, WMUY, WMVE

• 2023

Wiki For Human Rights regional campaign

workshops, panels, contests, photowalks

1000 imag., 100 crea., 300 improv., 180 p. (diff)

15 allied organizations

WMAR, WMCH, WMCO, WAPerú, WMLP, WMUY, WMBO, WMSP, WIKIMULHERES+

Wiki For Human Rights regional meeting

November 13 and 14, 2023

Montevideo, Uruguay

Wikimedia Argentina

Wikimedia Chile

Wikimedia Colombia

Wikimedistas de Bolivia

Wikimedistas de Uruguay

WikiAcción Perú�…

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Working group

Wikimedistas por los Territorios

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Agenda 2024

1. Wiki4HumanRighst campaign
2. Green Digital Citizines programme in alliance with IDB
3. Face-to-face event

About Huaraz, Peru

• Cordillera Blanca, 415 glaciers
• Emblematic case of climate justice : Saúl Luciano vs RWE (Alemania)
• Chavín de Huántar, 3200 a. C.
• Wikimedia activities since 2018

About Peru

• Located strategically in South America
• No international Wikimedia event has taken place
• Political, environmental, social, traditional, economic, ancestral, context

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2-day meeting

Objective

Foster the cohesion of the working group meeting to share, evaluate, discuss and plan for knowledge partnerships.

15 participants

3-day conference

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* Advocate for open, free and accessible content on climate change & environmental topics in Spanish, Portuguese and indigenous languages among organizations documenting and communicating about environmental rights

* Create a space where indigenous leaders have a voice and digital rights activists from Peru and South America can learn from their experience

3-day conference

* Strengthen a coalition of digital rights actors from the Wikimedia movement that are in dialogue with indigenous communities and other land and water protectors, listening to and understanding their needs

* Building a common set of understandings among Wikimedia actors on the relevance of climate change and sustainability as a topic, and to better understand how sustainability themes connect with digital rights issues

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Muchas gracias :)