Ep 29 - Making structured data more accessible with Kira Wisniewski

In this episode, Khansa Maria, Rahul Bajaj and Asmelash Teka share insights on language barriers, community-driven solutions, and legal advocacy for an accessible internet. Learn more: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/ep32/

Lydia Pintscher, the portfolio lead for Wikidata, foregrounds the human factor in data and what decolonising it looks like from her perspective as a builder of knowledge graphs.

Librarian extraordinaire and wikipedian from Uganda, Alice Kibombo explores the possibilities of structured data for librarians and colonial inheritances within these systems.

Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director of Art+Feminism, champions moving slowly when it comes to decolonizing structured data. Tune in for more.

In this episode of we sit down with Vic Sfriso, Cooperation Program Manager at Wikimedia Argentina, to explore queerness and structured data. Note: this episode is only available in Spanish.

Tune in to listen to our conversation with Dumisani Ndubane, an activist Wikipedian from South Africa who has spent the last 10+ years building wiki communities in the African continent.

Rachel Kagoiya and Anasuya Sengupta sit down to speak about the journey from the first Decolonizing the Internet in Cape Town, to DTI-EA and so much more!

Language exclusion in digital platforms can have significant consequences - this episode with Irene Mwendwa from Pollicy delves deeper.

Lena Anyuolo, poet, activist and librarian speaks about Kenyan political organising, leftist community library Ukombozi Library and how the future of the internet looks very queer.

Join Kerubo and Youlendree as they have a thoughtful conversation with Arya Jeipea Karijo, a transwoman activist who views life through a young, African feminist lens.