Inspiring Open
Be inspired • Be challenged • Be bold!
Amplifying the voices of Inspiring Women from the Open Movement
Inspiring Open is a podcast series about women from Wiki Loves Women that celebrates the inspirational women whose careers and personal ethics intersect with the Open movement. Each episode features a dynamic woman from Africa who has pushed the boundaries of what it means to build communities and succeed as a collective. As a podcast series, it is available at anytime, anywhere to amplify the motivational stories of each guest, as spoken in their own voice. Listen to their personal journeys in conversation with host Betty Kankam-Boadu.
Join Inspiring Open as we raise the global visibility and profiles of women who are redefining and reclaiming the Open sector.
Be inspired • Be challenged • Be bold!
An initiative from Wiki Loves Women
Inspiring Open is a new podcast series developed by Wiki Loves Woman, a project of Wiki in Africa.
Truly pan-African in its creation, Inspiring Open has been conceptualised and managed by Wiki In Africa’s Isla Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard, is hosted by Betty Kankam-Boadu, produced by Rachel Zadok, and sound engineered by Jey at Melody Hub Studio, Accra, Ghana. Portraits of each guest were created for Inspiring Open by Candace di Talamo, branding and design by Creative Flood, and website development by Terri-Mae Sasman. The music used in each podcast is High Funk by Crowander (www.crowander.com) under the CC-BY-SA-NC 4.0 license.
The Inspiring Open podcast series is supported by the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education 2021, an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut, and other partners.
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Meet the team:
Rachel Zadok
Inspiring Open : Production Manager
Writer • Editor • Executive Director: Short Story Day Africa • Designer
Isla Haddow-Flood
Inspiring Open: Executive Producer
Project and Marketing Strategist • Open Movement Advocate and Activator • Co-Lead Wiki In Africa
Florence Devouard
Inspiring Open: Executive Producer
Consultant • Speaker • Free Knowledge Advocate. Senior International Project Manager. Former ChairWoman of Wikimedia Foundation.
Wiki In Africa
Wiki In Africa’s mission is to facilitate global access for all to open knowledge that reflects and represents the diverse cultures, peoples, biodiversities, and histories of the African continent and other previously marginalized and disenfranchised communities with the same depth and breadth as other knowledges.
Wiki In Africa is a registered non-profit organisation that is based in South Africa and works across the continent and beyond. During 2022 it’s focus programs includes Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Women, WikiFundi, WikiChallenge African Schools, and WikiAfrica Hour.
These focus programs provide engaging and fun opportunities that empower and train interested individuals and communities to collect, develop and contribute educational and cultural knowledge under a free licence. The programmes Wiki In Africa creates specifically progress skills acquisition, leadership development, and community building to bridge the content and contribution gap that perpetuates the digital divide that plagues Africa, thus decolonising knowledge and the internet.
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Funded by the International Relief Fund for
Organisations in Culture and Education 2021 of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut, and other partners. goethe.de/relieffund.
