More than 100 youths joined an event in Hanoi on October 19 in which they added content to Wikipedia by writing new articles and editing existing ones about women experts, role models and heroes in different fields.
Youths take part in adding information about women to Wikipedia. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – More than 100 youths joined an event in Hanoi on October 19in which they added content to Wikipedia by writing new articles and editingexisting ones about women experts, role models and heroes in different fields.
Thisevent is a part of the global #WikiGap campaign, originally launched by theSwedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Wikimedia Sweden. Similar events havealready been held together with local actors and partners in more than 50countries worldwide to improve women’s representation on the Internet and helpcreate a more gender-equal world.
The eventin Hanoi was co-organised by the Swedish Embassy, the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP) and civil society organisations. They joined handswith Wikimedia to highlight achievements of women from Vietnam on the occasionof the National Women’s Day (October 20).
With theinitiative, the organisers want to increase the number of women beingrepresented on Wikipedia and help to make the Internet and the society as awhole more gender-equal.
Wikipediais the world’s largest online and user-generated encyclopedia. Its contentinfluences and colours users’ knowledge about the world. But there is a greatimbalance on the website, as in society at large.
Ninetypercent of the content is created by men, and there are four times morearticles about men than there are about women. The figures vary regionally, butthe picture is the same all over the world: the information about women is notonly less extensive than that about men. In the Vietnamese version of Wikipediathe numbers are even lower with less than 18 percent of the biographies areabout women.
Speakingat the event, Swedish Ambassador Pereric Högberg said, "Wikipedia is amodern form of history writing. By raising the representation of womenbiographies we will access more information which could help us all to learn,grow and develop."
CaitlinWiesen, UNDP Country Director in Vietnam, said, “People often think of povertyin terms of access to income, safe drinking water, good education andhealthcare – which are all essential. However, we must take care in this timeof transition to industrial revolution 4.0, that we do not create new forms ofpoverty that leave women behind in a deepening digital divide.”
Key to anequal future was empowering women and girls today to be digitally literate sothat they could take full and equal advantage of technologies, she said. -VNA
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Youths take part in adding information about women to Wikipedia. (Photo: VNA) 
