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Recap: Edit-A-Thon

The campaign recorded 36.2K article views, 87 articles edited, 52 articles created, and 882 Commons uploads as recorded in the dashboard statistics. View the statistics.

Charter Project Secretariat

June 11, 2024

Recap: Innov4Democracy

The Isika project from Madagascar won the competition after the finalists' pitches in front of a jury made up of experts in technological innovation, communication, economic intelligence and democratic governance

AfricTivistes

June 11, 2024

Recap: StorySprint

Over 50 international journalists from AU member countries, the USA, and the Netherlands trained on the charter.africa open-source tool. View the metrics.

Charter Project Secretariat

June 11, 2024

Unleashing Africa's Economic Potential

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) - a blog by fellows reviewing topics on the agenda of the ECOSOCC of the African Union

May 26, 2024

Blog: Recounting My Experience As a EmpowerHer Trainer

Muib Shefiu trained the Anglophone contributors on the fundamentals of editing articles on Wikipedia during the EmpowerHer Campaign

Muib Sheifu

May 16, 2024

Blog: Reflecting on the EmpowerHer Edit-a-thon 2024 Journey

Ms Adegboye reviewed over 200 contributions to Wikipedia articles and data on women leaders in Africa

Barakat Adegboye

May 16, 2024

Blog: A WikiData Trainer's Reflection on EmpowerHer

A Wikidata trainer reflects on her role at the EmpowerHer campaign ensuring that participants were competent in using Wikidata's features

Rhoda James

May 16, 2024

Blog: Experience of a French Wikipedia Trainer at the EmpowerHer Edit-a-thon

Francophone Wikipedia trainer reflects on her time equipping participants to contribute to the EmpowerHer Campaign.

Emmanuelle Kakou

May 16, 2024