About Us
Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific (SKAP)
Objectives
1. The community will create and conduct projects relative to inclusive knowledge sharing in the Philippines and in other underrepresented territories in the Asia Pacific.
2. It will collaborate with other communities not only in the Philippines but also in other countries and territories in scaling, advancing and replicating relevant Wikimedia projects.
3. To form strategic alliances with knowledge sources, such as but not limited to government and public partners, academic institutions, civic organizations and private entities to advance and expand knowledge creation, sharing and distribution.
4. To conduct capacity-building, mentoring, training of women community members, senior citizens, youth members and upskilling so they can effectively contribute local knowledge to the global village.
5. To organize events, meetups, learning sessions and other activities to increase and diversify membership, sustain the community and expand across territories that have very little or no presence of a Wikimedia community in the region.
6. To support the goals and objectives of the ESEAP cooperative community in its projects, policies, advocacy outreach, activities and contribute to its success.
History
Trustees of SKAP have been community organizers and builders leading Google Business Group ( GBG) in Pangasinan, Dagupan, Isabela and Cagayan in Northern Philippines being the ones who established, built and capacitated its members in various states in Northern Luzon Philippines. One of its GBG Chapters, GBG Pangasinan has been recognized by Google Developer relations as one of the Top 8 Chapters globally and leads got invited to Google I/O in the USA three times over.
Another trustee led Google Student Ambassador ( GSA ) in Pangasinan and has also been invited by Google in various capacity-development activities. She eventually led the Womenwill community, a community of women entrepreneurs and women leaders inside the Google Business Group communities teaching technology, upskilling and mentoring women members.
The SKAP trustees are community builders, and have very strong strategic partnership capacities such that in all of Google related activities and events and even those Wikimedia related events, they all worked and developed their own partners in the public sector as well as private sectors.
Trustees are bloggers, influencers since 2011, doing remarkable digital footprints in their communities, organizing events, doing consultations with government officers and advisory projects with agencies and departments.
Innovate.
Educate.
Share.
