Part of a four-day workshop on developing indigenous media strategies for http://iva.aippnet.org/about

1. Indigenous Voices in Asia (IVA):
Indigenous representation in Wikipedia
Facilitated by Cobi Smith,
Australian Youth Ambassador for Development, Australian Volunteers for International Development
New Media and Communications Development, AIPP Research and Communications Development Programme
At the IVA workshop for networking and developing a regional a regional indigenous media strategy,
on Wednesday 17 July 2013 in Bangkok.
Slides from this discussion are available for reference online at:
www.slideshare.net/cobismith/IVAsiawikipedia

3. Who in this room has accessed Wikipedia?

4. Who in this room has edited Wikipedia?

5. “Wikipedia is written collaboratively
by largely anonymous Internet
volunteers who write without pay.
Anyone with Internet access can
write and make changes to
Wikipedia articles”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

6. “There are more than 77,000
active contributors working on
more than 22,000,000 articles in
285 languages.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

7. Are you happy with how
indigenous people in Asia
are represented on Wikipedia?

8. Audience:
Indigenous_peoples has been viewed
more than 20476 times this month.
Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Philippines
has been viewed 8199 times this month.
Karen_people has been viewed 6919
times this month.
http://stats.grok.se/

9. Barriers to access Wikipedia are low.
(if you have unfiltered internet access)
Barriers to participate in Wikipedia are low.
(aside from barriers indigenous people can face such as script illiteracy)
Wikipedia’s transparency allows for
anyone to decide for themselves about
fairness of editorial decisions.

10. Thanks to transparency
in changes made and topics covered,
Wikipedia can be a platform for
highlighting biases using evidence.

11. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap

12. Audience:
Indigenous_peoples has been viewed
more than 20476 times this month.
Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Philippines
has been viewed 8199 times this month.
Karen_people has been viewed 6919
times this month.
http://stats.grok.se/

15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_rights

16. Should Wikipedia be in our media strategy?