[UgaBYTES] Fwd: FW: About the forthcoming Wikimania conference in Egypt- July 2008

Thu Jun 19 15:26:34 GMT 2008

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From: kareem kasim <kkasim at mcit.gov.eg>
Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Subject: FW: About the forthcoming Wikimania conference in Egypt- July 2008
To: karimkasim at gmail.com

 Dear Telecentre Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, East Africa
and the Globe,
This is an interesting event -Wikimania 2008 Alexandria: Change the shape of
wisdom- that is taking place the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in July
with an awareness session before it in June as the attached messages
suggests.
Feel free to check it out and see how you can benefit from it in person or
remotely
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Best regards from Cairo
K.

Dear All,

Based on many of your requests, we modified the Date & Time of the Session
as follows:

Wikimania Awareness Session: Sunday the 22nd of June, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

At the Lectures Hall located in the Conference Centre, Bibliotheca
Alexandrina.

Please be there on time.

__________________________

Wikimania BA Team

ICT Department

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

P.O. Box: 138

El Shatby

Alexandria 21526

EGYPT

Tel: +20 3 4839999

Fax: +20 3 4820405

Email: wikimania2008 at bibalex.org

___________________________

Greetings from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Are you still wondering if you should participate in the Wikimania 2008? Do
you want to know more about the Wikipedia before the conference is here?

Come join us at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina for an Awareness Session, next
Sunday 22nd June at the Lectures Hall located in the Conference Centre,
Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Invite All your friends, the session is public for everyone and Free.

Registration has been Extended and is now open up till July 10th!!

Hurry up and register when you still can.

See you next Monday.

Sincerely,

__________________________

Wikimania BA Team

ICT Department

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

P.O. Box: 138

El Shatby

Alexandria 21526

EGYPT

Tel: +20 3 4839999

Fax: +20 3 4820405

Email: wikimania2008 at bibalex.org

___________________________

Have you ever tried Wikipedia? Do you want to know about other projects
based on wiki? Do you want to learn how to write, edit and share in this new
revolution?

If your answer is YES, then you are invited to join us in Wikimania 2008,
the fourth annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports
Wikipedia and its sister projects. Bibliotheca Alexandrina will be hosting
the event from July 17-19, 2008.

Wikimania is an international conference where the enthusiastic community
behind the Wikimedia projects gathers to meet, exchange ideas, report on
research and projects, and discuss the future of the Wikimedia projects. It
is a community event, which is also open to the public and to researchers.
Experts and activists in free knowledge, wiki culture, multi-lingual and
multi-cultural projects, and massively collaborative open systems can
exchange ideas with active Wikimedians in a highly participatory and
energetic, discussion-driven format.

Conference themes this year include:

·         "Wikimedia Communities", including the topics of conflict
resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multi-lingual's
and languages and cultures

·         "Free Knowledge", including open access to information; ways to
gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in
education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and
usability; and free content in the Middle-East/Africa

·         "Technical infrastructure", including issues related to MediaWiki
development and extensions; Wikimedia's technical infrastructure; and new
ideas for development

·         "Scientific track", including research into massively
collaborative work; open and free content creation; community dynamics; and
the social or economic aspects of the Wikimedia projects

The four conference tracks are parallel, featuring prominent keynotes and
invited speakers along with submitted talks on the conference themes,
workshops, as well as informal discussions. Eminent speakers include Ahmed
N. Tantawy, the Technical Director of IBM in the Middle East and Eliane
Metni, the founding director of the International Education Association, Tim
Spalding, the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing; Eric M. Johnson,
the team leader for the Knowledge Management Action Team at the U.S.
Department of State and Usama Fayyad,  Yahoo!'s executive vice president of
Research & Strategic Data Solutions.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is honored to be hosting this event, as it
stands in line with its aim of spreading knowledge and allowing it to be
available to all. By hosting the event in Africa and in the Arab region, we
are assisting in creating true IT empowered nations out of our developing
countries, if by merely drawing the people's eyes to this side of the globe.

For registration, please visit
http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration

There are special discounts for students:

·         35 % discount for all students in Egyptian Universities. kindly
send your National ID or Passport + Faculty ID Card after you register to:
Wikimania-registration at wikimedia.org

·         50 % discount for group students more than 10 persons, each
individual is to register separately and the group list is to be sent
afterwards along with the IDs in a separate email to:
Wikimania-registration at wikimedia.org

So JOIN US and invite your friends!

For more inquiring about discounts, please contact  us by email
Wikimania-registration at wikimedia.org

Sincerely,

__________________________

Wikimania BA Team

ICT Department

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

P.O. Box: 138

El Shatby

Alexandria 21526

EGYPT

Tel: +20 3 4839999

Fax: +20 3 4820405

Email: wikimania2008 at bibalex.org

___________________________

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Karim A. Kasim
ICTD/Community Access Centers Coordinator
Telecentre.org Knowledge Sharing and Community Content Facilitator-Middle
East and North Africa
Tel: (202)578 4840–6 (Ext 251)
Fax: (202)578 4847
Mobile :(20)10 170 8474
Cairo, Egypt
Work: karim.kasim at undp.org,
Personal/Consultancy: karimkasim at gmail.com
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