Created structure for complex collaboration
I established practical plans, workflows, responsibilities and reporting systems so partners and team members could see how their work connected.
Case study 01
International programmes · Open knowledge · Multilingual participation
How could open knowledge help education continue when classrooms closed?
A UNESCO and Wikimedia education initiative bringing together institutional partners, educators, technical contributors and multilingual communities to make curriculum knowledge easier to structure, connect and discover.
Read the 52-page final reportCurriculum data, learning content and multilingual communities
RoleProject Manager
Project partnersUNESCO and Wikimedia Foundation
ProgrammeWikidata for Education
CountriesGhana and Uruguay
Global education contextUNESCO Global Education Coalition
The brief
01Translate national curricula into structured open data, connect topics to relevant learning content and mobilise educator and contributor communities to close identified gaps.
The delivery challenge
02The pandemic exposed a familiar inequality: digital learning materials existed, but teachers and learners could not always find resources aligned to what schools were expected to teach, especially in local languages.
National curricula had to be understood with education specialists, modelled in a form Wikidata could use, and connected to relevant Wikipedia articles. The missing or weak content then had to be improved through educator and community campaigns. Progress depended on education expertise, community trust and technical rigour moving together.
My delivery scope
03- Built the delivery plan and governance documentation
- Coordinated international partners and a distributed programme team
- Managed timelines, responsibilities, risks and reporting
- Supported curriculum-information modelling
- Coordinated educator and community campaigns
- Connected technical and non-technical stakeholders
What I led
From intent to delivery.
The decisions and delivery moves that kept the work useful, aligned and accountable.
Connected curriculum data to useful content
The programme did not stop once the curriculum was structured. We matched curriculum topics to Wikipedia articles, identified gaps, and organised campaigns where educators and editors could improve or create curriculum-aligned learning content.
Adapted without abandoning the outcome
When a campaign in Kumasi faced a budget shortfall, I helped redesign delivery. We recruited locally, moved parts of the training online and retained an experienced onsite lead. The activity continued without sacrificing the intended timeline or quality.
Connected participation to measurable work
Campaigns were planned around identified content gaps. Participation, edits, new contributions and audience reach were tracked so activity stayed connected to programme outputs.
Evidence of delivery
What the work produced.
Confirmed programme, participation and product outcomes.
353 courses represented across Ghana and Uruguay
505 curriculum-related Wikidata items and statements created or improved
10 educator and community campaigns delivered
108 educators and participants engaged
1,420 edits completed
224 new contributions created
English, Twi and Ga knowledge gaps addressed
3.35 million page views generated across improved content
What this demonstrates
International partner coordinationInternational programme coordinationGovernance and reportingMultilingual community engagementAdaptive delivery under constraints
My reflection
The value was not the data alone. It was making relevant learning content easier to discover, improve and use.
The project required more than maintaining a plan. It required coordination across institutions, communities, languages and different ways of working.