Wikimedia Alliances Fund: Open Climate

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What does “openness” have to do with climate action? The Open Climate collective started a pilot project in 2022 to address this question by discussing the parallels, contrasts, and disconnects between the “open technology” and the environmental movement. Between 2021 and 2022, we organized “Open Climate Calls” to bring together activists, researchers, and technologists from various walks of life and collectively respond to climate change with expanded support for environmental action.

This project was sponsored by the Wikimedia Alliances Fund. The Open Climate collective was formed by Emilio Velis (Appropedia), Michelle Thorne (Green Web Foundation), Alex Stinson (Wikimedia), Evelin Heidel (Wikipedia), and Shannon Dosemagen (Shuttleworth fellow).

Image: “Meander Map of the Mississippi River” by Harold Fisk (1944). Source: Public Domain Review.