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I have been a Wikipedian and Wikimedian since 2012. And a volunteer at Wikimedia Ghana User Group since. Representing at BarCamps to community events and creating awareness about shared knowledge. Wikipedia 101: A practical Session@Enock4seth #FIFAfrica18#InternetFreedomAfrica pic.twitter.com/KiXtaG2xvo — #WAMECA2018 IS COMING!!! (@TheMFWA) September 28, 2018 I am glad to be back in action after some years of been away due to school and dedicating most of my time to [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/about) and [WikiData](https://www....

National Volunteer Day (NVDay) taking place during Founders Day and around September 21 since 2013 to promote and encourage volunteerism among Ghanaians. This year NVDay was once again successful with 53 activities registered and many other activities. Personally volunteering has taught and helped me in several ways I never imagined. All I was happy with is making impact and seeing my works benefit and put smiles into peoples hearts. Preceding NVDay 18; I was privileged to talk about volunteerism and the Ghana Volunteer Program with Ato on Kwese TV....

SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business - in short, everywhere! – Software Freedom Day In Accra SFD have been organised by the Linux Accra Users Group for more than 5 years. Mr. Asante one the founding and very supportive members’ of Linux Accra started the day with a talk about why Software Freedom to open source doesn’t mean you don’t get money or less insecure software....

Right before FOSS4G 2018 closing ceremony I had to join the Open Cities Africa team en route Zanzibar. First time travelling from Dar es Salaam to Stone Town and you know right; ferry of course :D and it was my first ferry ride too. The purpose for travelling to Zanzibar was for a 2 day Mapbox workshop on builing web maps. Thanks to the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative (ZMI) we had great geospatial data from high definition drone images to spreadsheet data combined with yours truly OpenStreetMap for our workshop....

Ever wondered what all these Open Source and Linux stuffs are? It’s time to jail break. Software Freedom Day is a global celebration of Free and Open Source Software. Over 1000 volunteer groups in over 120 countries all around the globe will be celebrating the Software Freedom Day every year in Septermber. Software Freedom Day is aimed to educate the public and encourage the use of free and open source software....