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| ===Short description with intended user and market (Max. 400 Word)=== | | ===Short description with intended user and market (Max. 400 Word)=== |
| + | Wiki Umran is an open knowledge platform specialized in urban related content. The platform aims to collect, organize and accumulate the knowledge produced about our built environment and the fields of knowledge intersecting with it. The platform will provide the scholars with an archive of studies, reports, designs and a dictionary of urban related concepts and theories in Arabic. |
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− | Wiki Umran is an open knowledge platform. The platform aims to collect, organize and accumulate the knowledge produced related to urbanism and the fields of
| + | The platform is developed collaboratively and cumulatively by Arabic speaking researchers, designers and scholars of the field. And since the platform documents it's own development, other researchers and students are able to view and learn from our own learning process; and how the knowledge was produced collaboratively on the wiki. The wiki is mainly targeting individuals and institutions working in the field but others will benefit from the publicly accessible content such as: |
− | knowledge intersecting with it. The platform will provide the scholars with an archive of studies, reports, designs and a dictionary of urban related concepts and theories in Arabic.
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− | The platform is targeting arabic speaking audience interested in knowledge related to urbanism and the built environment. The targeted audience includes but not limited to researchers, designers and scholars in the field; in addition to specialised media outlets, writers and audio visual producers working on topics related.
| + | *Architecture and urban design firms: providing them with uptodate and easy to access information, data and relevant theoretical outcomes and resources |
| + | *Real estate market: providing it with knowledge that can aid them with local best practices |
| + | *Culture, arts and media sector: providing the interested from artists, journalists, film makers and others with content that can feed their creative processes about urban related issues. |
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| + | In the first year the core team will be targeting content developers in Cairo and other cities in Egypt. Afterwords the team will outreach to individuals and institutions in the core team network of urbanists working in other Arabic cities such as Beirut, Amman and Tunis. |
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| + | After the platform starts to shape it's identity with a critical mass of content, the team will be working on empowering local communities to be able to work on the wiki and document their knowledge about their built environment. However, this objective is left in the future vision so |
| + | as to have the human capacities and funds to be able to work on the grassroots level by building their capacities. |
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| + | Moreover, collaborating with vocational and educational institutions is within the wikis vision to link both academia and practice. |
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| ===2. Current level of the development of idea (Max. 100 Word)=== | | ===2. Current level of the development of idea (Max. 100 Word)=== |