{"id":53394,"date":"2022-11-02T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/unlock\/?post_type=unlock-blog&p=53394"},"modified":"2022-11-14T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:51:06","slug":"unlock-demo-day-2022-hybrid-setup-and-expert-opinions","status":"publish","type":"unlock-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.de\/unlock\/unlock-blog\/unlock-demo-day-2022-hybrid-setup-and-expert-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLOCK Demo Day 2022: Hybrid setup and expert opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What is the intention of the Demo Day?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Demo Day takes place once a year at the end of each program edition. At this big showcase event, the participants demonstrate their prototypes to a live audience and receive valuable feedback. It is a chance to get a very first glimpse of what the teams have been working on and offer insights as the teams set out to make a lasting impact on our knowledge society. This offers great opportunities to find inspiration, build motivation and make lasting connections. Together, we also take the time to celebrate the participants\u2019 achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cultivating a Free Knowledge ecosystem<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For a 4-month period, the participants worked hard to develop prototypes that offer concrete and scalable solutions to this year\u2019s challenge \u201cAccess to knowledge is a matter of equity<\/a>\u201d; open-source solutions that break down social and technical barriers preventing people from both accessing and contributing to free knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Wikimedia, we strongly believe in the power of free knowledge for social impact. Therefore, all project results that are developed throughout the accelerator program are openly licensed: all projects must be open source (as an open software project) or run under a free license (as a freely licensed non-technical project, e.g. art, audio, video, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seven exciting solutions <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Seven products were developed throughout the accelerator in 2022. Among them are: A platform that safeguards indigenous knowledge on biodiversity in the Amazon; a tool that offers support in translating politically sensitive terms; a browser extension providing user-generated audio descriptions to the visually impaired; and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n