African Wikipedian Alliance (AWA), in collaboration with sensorsAFRICA and Code for Africa’s DataLab, will showcase how open environmental data on openAFRICA can bridge knowledge gaps in climate justice, energy infrastructure, and urban heat mapping across Africa on Wikimedia projects. The session will demonstrate visualised datasets, such as rising temperatures and air quality—and provide participants with a practical guide for integrating these datasets into Wikimedia contents.
This hands-on experience empowers Wikimedians to leverage open data for impactful climate justice content campaigns, fosters collaboration, and strengthens the environmental knowledge base of the Wikimedia movement.