Good morning. Welcome everyone Thank you all for joining us Really good to see you all My name is Deb Nelson. I'm the vice president of community and client engagement from RSF social finance And I'm here with three people that I respect and admire so much And we get I love you. Yes. I love these three people And I have the great honor and pleasure of working with all of them on our integrated capital Institute So we have a kia winwood from wisebridge former president of rockwood leadership Institute We have Joel Solomon co-founder of renewal funds and author of the clean money revolution and we have a maca agbo founder and principal of a maca agbo consulting and an ICI fellow and We launched our integrated capital Institute three years ago Because we wanted to share what we'd been learning about how to activate capital diverse forms of capital both financial and social and how to activate it in all its forms to affect systemic change and It's been a total Pleasure working with our fellows our faculty advisors. I see a couple of our fellows in the audience How many fellows are both current fellows and new fellows are with us in the audience? I think Wendy is here, too awesome And it's one of the things that gives me great hope these days is working with these incredible Changemakers that have such big visions and are doing such important work in the world And I wanted to share a quote that I read from Bill McKibben He was interviewed earlier this year and they asked him Where do you see the greatest signs of hope and he said to me movements are the great sign of hope? The fact that people are beginning to come together in numbers to stand up and we agree with bill And we are a part of a growing movement of financial activists that are working on a simple yet radical goal and that is to create an economy that works for all people and the planet and We think we don't have time to wait That it's time to rethink our assumptions about money how we activate it and how we leverage capital in all its forms So I have a quick confession to make. I'm asking them very big Complex questions every question that I ask really deserves a half an hour answer, but I'm only giving them about three minutes So I've asked them to share nuggets of wisdom, but you're not going to get the whole enchilada You can come up and speak to us later and get in touch with us after the panel, but we're going to be Short and concise and compelling. So here we go Akaya Joel amaka, how did you become a financial activist and why does it matter to you? Akaya Well, I was sitting around wondering what I was going to do for the rest of my life Actually, I don't know. I would call myself a financial activist. I come from leadership I feel like my job is to support those people who are actually who are going to be the ones who are going to re-imagine our financial and economic systems it it, you know, I've been in social change forever and It seems to me that as much as we want to say oh Capitalism is gonna die and the markets are gonna fall then all that will probably be true to some degree We're still humans and humans trade and then we're gonna need markets We're gonna need ways to actually exchange ideas and goods, etc. So that's not going to go away What's exciting to me is what is what we can imagine and Mako talk about this and Joe will as well in terms of can we imagine and invent new systems that are equitable Because these systems that we're currently in Despite if I even if I were sitting on the biggest pile of money on the planet still wouldn't work for me Because this vast inequality doesn't serve in the long run. So how fun? let's get together and Recreate create some new systems imagine them into to being and do the work of creating that that's what the fellowships about but that to me is really exciting and why I'm in it because it Calls for creativity given that the markets aren't gonna go away. They'll just shift and change Hello everyone I Was messed with by the 60s and what went on in society then Lots of different dimensions of that Yes The urgencies are clear on so many levels We know that there's more than enough money in the world We know that money is concentrated pretty effectively in the hands of the fewer money has a story to it it affected people in places While we hold it it affects people in places and When we deploy it it does as well We don't pay enough attention to what that means and what our responsibility is related to it There is more than enough money combined with human ingenuity to solve most of the problems and crises we face We need to think about how much is enough What that means to us? We need to consider our responsibility for all that impact on people in places and We need to have our money doing things that we believe in and that align with our values That's not necessarily simple, but it's getting easier. This place is loaded with stories and methods Financial activists are going to be needed as those of us that have more than enough Watch the challenges grow and watch society get wobblier Our job with this is to help create a wave and help support a wave of people who can handle a Next level deeper of the complexity of deploying money beyond impact investing. What is social change investing? So I'm dedicated with the rest of my coherence to support That concept to gain traction You guys are so good at modeling the three-minute thing. I'm gonna do my best So the question of being a financial activist I would start by saying I see this work as a continuation of my ongoing social and racial justice work It's just another way that I've continued to fight for equity In liberation for those that have been most impacted right the same like we would have a policy director Kind of work on bills and legislation or community organizer go door-to-door I want to share a little bit about how I came to this work because people oftentimes ask me I'm how did somebody who was actually kind of doing on the ground organizing now be sitting on a stage in Socap And there's two stories that I'll share about myself I had the privilege the privilege of working at an organization called the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights for a number of years And one of the first campaigns I worked on was our green collar jobs campaign the green collar jobs campaign Some of you may be aware it was a movement where we were calling for an investment in green jobs to fight poverty And pollution at the same time and so I spent a lot of time working bringing together multi-stakeholder Leaders that were engaged in union organizing people working in cities people working on education and workforce development To try to create these programs that would then train people to get the entry-level jobs into those green job career pathways One of the things that happened as we started to see the economic recession in 2008 is that the green collar jobs movement came heavily under attack And one of the things that I think allowed the movement to to be attacked was the fact that our analysis Around where power was being held in that movement and who ultimately got to make the decisions about how our call for a green Economy was being structured continued to be those that had wealth and capital, right? It wasn't actually the workers that we were fighting to get entry-level jobs in we didn't actually have an analysis of who Was owning the businesses and how that we were then making the decisions and then who was also investing the capital and to really Revitalizing the screen economy, right? So we it really forced me to really look at can we be bolder? Can we be more audacious in what we're calling for? another key event that happened also coming off of the end of the recession for me was around 2012 in the Bay Area and I Offer across the country as when we started to see a number of social justice organizations Have to lay off staff some organizations even closed and that was because 2012 was just around the time these organizations were starting to experience the delayed impacts of the 2008 recession and for me at the time I was in a leadership role at an organization and Really recognize that we were looking to one individual to have all the answers for how we were going to address our financial Issues in our organization. I did not my I myself did not have enough understanding of the economy and what was happening And what it would mean for our organizations that heavily relied on philanthropic dollars to sustain our social movements Right, so kind of those two events really led me to start to kind of want to understand what was happening in the broader economy Beyond philanthropy, right beyond nonprofit social justice movements and also starting to see many Philanthropies responding to the recession with the call for more program related investments more mission related investments Without ever actually educating our organizations about what those dollars meant and how we could use them to sustain our work And so that's where I started to kind of pull on this thread of this emerging Impact investing movement and what it meant to start to really look at how we can start to use philanthropic dollars As the entry point to actually open up more traditional capital markets in a way that helps to move non extractive capital I'm to social movements on the ground and so I think it's helpful for folks to understand how our social movements need to be resourced and sustained as a broad part of what it means to really transform our financial systems All right. Here's another simple topic and quick question We want to move from an economy that's based on extraction and greed to an economy that's based on Regeneration and interconnectedness What do we need to do to make that happen? She's an excellent facilitator well, I started with something about this and The next step would be as we assess What we have whether it is financial resources or our human resources all hands on deck now Whatever we can do we need to be thinking with a screen about the future of decent civilization in a place that future generations can Have at least a bit of what we have That requires psychological emotional and spiritual development along with practical skills We have to get clear about the meaning of life our purpose and what we're gonna do with this precious life The models for us of what success means are a little off We're hopefully developing some new models of what it means One way that simplifies it for me is being a billionaire is a big goal for a lot of people It's a fairly silly goal Unless you know what you want to do with a billion dollars and why you want to do it and while you get there All the things that you do to get there So that applies whether you're billion dollars or whether we're just comfortably affluent And that's who I'm primarily speaking to we have to be part of building a vision and a Map and roadmaps so that next generations are supported to do things differently and We have to be The stewards of the long-term future So what does that mean to each of us? We have to we have to all figure that out But we can't ignore figuring it out. We have a responsibility and Future generations are watching us. They're studying this time. They're scratching their heads They want to know how we got in this pickle and why we're carrying on partying while The planet suffers and people suffer so assess our life and see how we can be more participating in a more safe clean fair future for everyone Ignore politics at our peril Take responsibility in our communities Find ways to stay strong hopeful and Resilient It's going to be more and more crucial We we are sitting on the cusp of Possibly facing a future that we do not yet understand what it will be like to be part of that's exciting It's a big responsibility Please pay attention to it Raise your hand if you wake up in the morning and say wow it's working This is really working for me and Working for the people that I know and the people that I love and the people I care about Yeah, I'm not seeing a whole lot of hands in the room and I don't think that we are an unusual audience I mean, perhaps there's a room somewhere in Washington where everybody would raise their hands But I would even say for them. It's not working because this is a very precarious Bubble that we're in right here look I think one of the most atrocious Artifacts of oppression and white male supremacist patriarchy. Yeah, I said that Is the cost of isolation from one another? It teaches me that I'm over here and you're over there or you're over here and I'm over here and There are systemic barriers that we have to honor and keep in place In order for the current systems to work And that is cast that's just catastrophic Because it means then I have to pretend that Joel White man straight Jewish Wealthy and I queer African-American Raised we're very working class are not supposed to be sitting here together But it's just we're breaking big taboos let alone work together let alone like each other let alone There I say it love each other. So if we're gonna Change these systems. It's gonna require that we stop it Just stop and refuse to to let those artificially created boundaries be real and Snuggle up to people who we've been told should not be even within speaking distance let alone touching difference and Taking the risk of doing that because it's risky Humble it's risky So you really it takes big courage To say okay, I'm just gonna not we're not gonna play that anymore and to get close to folks it's it's For me it's less about extraction. I mean, that's a bad thing. Don't stop exploiting people Let's just stop that but the only way I know to interrupt the exploitation and the extraction is to know folks Is to say oh, I would I do I want to do that to my my my kin? My sibling my cousin. I don't want to do that and to maybe it's reductive here But I actually don't believe we're going to shift theoretically We are not going to change our systems because I'm sitting in my office Thinking about things We're going to shift because we actually get out there and do some work and cross some boundaries To kind of underscore what a kaya and Joel shared. I you know, I think we're dealing with the realities that We're looking at the financialization of our relationships, right? Our relationships have been commodified I'm a part of the work is to figure out how we reclaim those relationships Understanding that that and to itself takes time a friend of mine Mervin Mercano talks about we can only move at the speed of trust Right and so when we look at the fact that it's taken Centuries and decades to create this level of harm this level of disrepair It is also going to take the time of building relationships and building trust for us to get out of it Right and so how do we actually move in a way in which we are supporting people on the ground to really doing The work I'm to move at the speed of which their communities can kind of grow and to also be able to experiment and innovate I think oftentimes in this field. I observe kind of this Pressure for these communities to kind of have the perfect solution Right, whereas the those of us who have kind of the privilege and the ability to be here in this room Kind of get a little bit more buffer in time to to figure out how we're gonna go along and work things out Right and so how do we extend the level of grace to one another to each other to recognize that this work will take time But to also hold each other and ourselves accountable to doing the work, right? So I think there's one piece around Relationships around the inter the individual action the interpersonal relationships I think the other side of it is that we are dealing with structures in systems that have also created systemic harm right so the The level of harm are like when we talk about the racial wealth gap It's not like an earthquake happened and everything opened up and some of us were left over here And the rest of us were over here with all the resources, right? There were very intentional policies very intentional practices that focused in on the Distribution of land wealth and power across this country that created that gap Right and so when we talk about what is actually going to take to to engage in interconnection We have to close that gap and then we close that gap by having the same level of systemic in government investment Back into the redistribution of that same land wealth and power I'm oftentimes kind of see that the response that we take to Addressing the racial wealth gap is well, you know people should open a savings account and you know We'll train them in filing financial literacy. We respond to a systemic problem by telling individual responses and actions We actually haven't figured out is a movement that's focused in on the economy How we leverage our own economic power to then engage in the political front of the work that needs to happen right oftentimes when we see communities get them The winds that they're able to get they oftentimes have to defend it They have to be able to physically defend their land their wealth and their power And then they also have to be able to defend it in the court of law Right and so I lift this up to say what it takes to get there is yes It's the relationships It's the individual action and then it's also all of us being politically engaged and not allowing ourselves to Feel comfortable enough to say that The the individual actions are enough that we actually do need to have a systemic response That is equal and commiserate to the level of harm that's been created Thank you. I Actually have a question and I'll include you in this Deb You talked about time and Things moving at the speed of trust and I've been thinking about that for a while too But I also think I worry about we don't have enough time so how do you how do we think about balancing the urgency of You know 15 more years before things really fall apart and The the time it takes to build authentic relationship that that will shift this I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time, right? I think we get to Don't choke, please. I love you too much. Don't do that I think that you know as we're working through a project and trying to figure out well how this potential investor could resource this Project those converse when we take time to have those conversations Yes, we're working out the structuring of that particular investment and how to ensure that it's a non-extractive Investment to make sure that we move the money as fast as possible But it's through those connect those conversations that we're actually building the relationship, right? And so finding the ways and the opportunities to To get out of our own ways and say well first I have to wholeheartedly understand you I have to like really be on the ground in the weeds with this community before I can actually just do the thing that I have Access to move right now. And so I guess I'm encouraging us to to figure out how how we hold both How we both turn out to vote how we be engaged in our Communities how we be good civic stewards while also, you know going to the block parties getting to know our neighbors Being a part of the community building that needs to happen Great great response and I would just ask those of you in the audience How many of you are involved in moving financial capital and? How many of you are involved in moving social capital? How many of you are working on public policy and advocacy work? Okay, I could go on and on so we need all of it and I agree with your response and it is part of what we Discuss and work on through the Integrated Capital Institute that Everything happens at the speed of trust really whether it's political change or social change environmental policies changing our financial systems But it all starts with relationships and trust so there's social community and Active political activists Why do we use the term financial activists? because the In a 1% the whole 1% movement if you do the math on that That leaves a lot of people that have concentrated wealth really large concentrated wealth There is Estimated something like 50 trillion dollars passing hands in North America alone in the next three decades through death Through generational transfer of wealth. That's just one big pot of money With all due respect to the wealth management industry. I'm part of it in various ways What we are mostly doing is figuring out how to help people make more money To protect their base and expand it There are all kinds of good reasons for that in certain circumstances, but it's gotten out of control We don't have good fear. We don't have fair taxation. We don't take care of the commons We don't take care of the social safety net very well. We've abandoned a lot of that So there are many reasons that we're creating a situation that might be untenable When someone has the eureka moment and says my capital Needs to do better and we and they come to us in the financial movement We're not financial activists We're maintainers and growers of wealth So if we did that for everyone That'd be good so there need to be people who have a social change mindset and Understand theories about how we what some of what's been being said here analysis of society And what's needed? Money is an incredibly creative tool and instrument. It can do phenomenal things But it takes creativity imagination commitment analysis To shift it from doing further damage and at least reducing damage and doing less harm and more good So financial activist idea is that there are some people with the mindset to understand enough about financial systems enough about political economic social systems to use money the way some very notable Players with Intentions, I don't like have figured out the ecosystem of how to control and dominate society So we need people who understand enough about that that can start moving money To different people different places different outcomes. That's what a financial activist is It's a mindset and that's what this integrated capital fellows program is about Please consider being part of it in the future and support it Thank you. All right, I'm gonna continue on this path of asking you simple quick questions I'm gonna ask you each two questions. You can choose which question you want to answer or you can do a combo So Joel, I'm gonna start with you How have you activated different kinds of capital to affect positive social change and What's wrong with impact investing as we know it? In two minutes Well, the how is I've kind of touched on it The how is we have to have a different understanding of the world and what our purpose is what the purpose of our life is What's the purpose of humanity?  There's plenty of Creativity here unbelievable amounts of creativity possible with money. We are mostly constrained in a fairly tightly Designed system that funnels it in same ways How do we what's wrong with impact investing as we know it well? Impact investing as we know it is ready to become social change investing It's ready to become a part of a puzzle and a map of deploying capital in Better ways so impact is a wonderful step that has happened for the last couple of decades number of you have been involved in it for those years And it's a step. It's like the training wheels now. We've got to go deeper and we have to do our inner work to determine if Multiplying our money at the highest rate possible makes sense With the amount of capital and privilege that we have or is it a tool? for joy better future long-term future and stable Society going forward stable ecology stable society and a functional world Akaiya Why is courageous leadership at the heart of a movement of financial activists and? What's the greatest lesson you've learned about money? Well, so we second the greatest lesson I learned that money isn't very real Like it isn't because I mean I don't carry around clam shells anymore I barely have bills and so it money is one of those things it sits on my computer screen With that has ones and zeros and zeros and ones and fives and all of that, but it isn't very real So it took me a minute to get that Because it's a set of agreements among our among us that some things are worth other worth more than other things and so therefore we can give them a greater value Like that makes no sense to me and I know that it that's part of the problem that runs this whole thing that those of us with more resources are somehow better than those of Us with fewer resources, and that's just a lie so the premise of money Which began I'm assuming as a way of exchanging things has become a very distorted way of Separating us isolating us and killing the heart of us Now that said it's also very useful Because we're not post money yet, although we're getting there You know, I'm learning about that Kristen Hull is helping me learn about that how to invest wisely and How to for those of us who come from communities who have not been the investors To actually step into that work and go oh, I can use this Resource that I have to bring about good things in the in the world Which is really different. I think then some a lot of us who come from social change Who who have been taught that anybody with money is automatically bad and wrong? so We got to shift that that whole thing What was my first question? Why is courageous leadership at the heart of a movement of financial activists? I think courageous leadership is a heart of any movement Independent of financial activism If we're gonna change the world Change I hate that if we're going to transform What what our interrelationships are then it takes courage It means that I'm gonna have to maybe get really uncomfortable with looking at what I think I know about certain folks and Think I know about myself and Interrupt that that takes a lot of courage It takes a lot of courage to tell the people that you come from that you actually disagree now and That you're gonna do things differently. It takes a lot of courage to get in a boardroom and say, you know what this is wrong. I Can't say yes to this It takes a lot of courage to step out of the way in which we have been imprisoned by our social identities and Refused to be bound by them any longer One last thing we can't do this by ourselves We actually need each other and We are going to have to do that work of needing each other well in a way that in ways that are non-extractive that are mutually enhancing and that Make a collective difference and that goes against Gravity in this in this culture. So we're gonna have to to make some that's takes a lot of courage Thank you Macca if we're going to address climate change and economic injustice What do we need to start doing and what do we need to stop doing and? What gives you hope I Now know how the presidents feel on up on the debate stage or like the candidates, right? They're like, how are you gonna solve world poverty? Yeah, so I think this question of what are we gonna what we need to stop doing and start doing I'll start off first by saying My work on restorative economics is intentionally rooted in the frameworks of Reparations and the practices of restorative justice because I personally believe that in order to actually start to trans not just change in reform But truly transform society We do need to close that gap and we need to close that racial gender wealth gap In a way that helps to repeat repair the harm that has been done to those communities I've been most extracted from most exploited most excluded from the benefits of our current economy because And when we do that then they have the skills the capacities the resources to meaningfully participate in the conversation About how we transform our economy, right when we don't include their voices when we continue to assume that Those that have continued to lead and be in power are those that are gonna get us out of the problem We'll unfortunately continue to do more of the same and I think we already see our movement in our field Replicating a lot of the same harmful habits and practices that are rooted in Patriarchy that are rooted in racism And we could go unfortunately through all the isms and I think that's really problematic and concerning And so I think that's both a stop and a start I think the the other piece to To what I think we need to start doing it goes back again to this comment around grace I think indigenous communities haven't extended a tremendous amount of grace to all of us I recently learned of the the statistic that 80% of the world's biodiversity Lives or sits within indigenous held land, right? They have shown us so much grace and continue to offer wisdom To us and the ability for us to engage in a place of deep listening to engage in a process of reparations and to really Do that in a way that we understand not only supporting those indigenous communities But also continuing to acknowledge in and support Low-income communities working poor communities communities of color Undocumented immigrant communities the trans communities as well being able to ensure that those communities have voice and vote And how we start to transform our economy is It's extremely important to me and the work that I do. I Think this question of hope always kind of trip it trips me up a little bit and sorry to be the cynical one In the room on one hand, I I think hope is a very helpful posture to have I think hope is a thing that keeps keeps us motivated It's kind of that light that we can look towards and at the same time what I've observed and what I know Is that hope is also a privilege, right? It means that we still have a little bit of a buffer a little bit of a landing pad That's just a bit softer than others that allows us to kind of still be hopeful for something to be better, right? Those people that we see living on the streets those people that we see really struggling to make ends meet and living paycheck-to-paycheck in our country I don't I wonder how much hope they have right? The other thing that I've seen it's those people that have been in the harshest situations Those people that unfortunately have come to a moment of desperation Because all they can rely on is their selves their family and their friends Those are the ones that have also kind of come together To be able to kind of leapfrog over the incremental reforms into something that's truly transformative, right? So when we look at natural disasters like the hurricanes hitting the Caribbean's in Puerto Rico the communities that were Hit the hardest the communities that were also then able to support one another were those that had the micro grid Systems, right? They had the solar panels, right? We saw this also in New York when Hurricane Sandy came and those the Red hook a community named Red Hook had a community owned Wi-Fi system, right? That community owned system was that community on Wi-Fi system was a thing that allowed people from a seven mile radius to come To that community and then access Wi-Fi So I think even though I'm saying like I don't know if we have hope there are ways in which you know I continue to see Those projects those initiatives that are community governed that are community owned and steward as kind of the bright spots that are able to kind of weather the literal Infigurative storms that are coming down And I would also say you know through our cohort with ICI we've already seen people taking on Amazing projects, you know, I Yes, maybe like myself You can't see it, but I'm blushing. Thank you. Thank you very much Yeah, so, you know we continue to see you hopefully people have heard from some of the speakers from Thousand Currents work right with the Buenavivir fund. We have guy three sitting in the back Hopefully some people have had a chance to talk to Aaron Tanaka and Ian Evans with Boston Ujima project Kate Poole and Tiffany Brown from Cordotic Capital will also be At Socap later today. We have Bill in the room as well. So So yes, I just think we need to be mindful when we ask people to have hope right who gets to have hope, right? And we also need to continue to do the work So, you know, we're gonna keep chewing the gum or sucking on a mint maybe and walking and walking at the same time Thank you, Amaka. All right, we're gonna open up to questions and we have Joanne's gonna help us with a roaming mic So when you before you ask your question, please share your name in your organization Hello, my name is Ron. I work for ABM have and I wanted to ask Kind of I'm one of I'm one of those disruptors from within the system What advice do you have for like young financial activists that are looking at the best and most effective ways to disrupt the current system? Believe in yourself Don't give up Find your people Don't try to do things by yourself gather around and Keep working This is the system isn't built for you It really isn't and yet. I'm looking to young people. I Mean, I'm too strong. You see this, right? I'm been in it for too long and Not too long for as long as I've been in it, but I'm not gonna have to live then It's the young folks the disruptors who are going to pave the way for the our great-great-grandchildren who are actually calling to us and we need to respond so Don't let my generation interrupt your work. You keep going Beautiful. Thank you. Other questions You've got one up front Economic development organization is doing innovative things But there is such a large gap between where they are and current funding sources for them and The connection to impact and I don't like I've been participating in conversations I haven't heard what is happening what people are doing to close that specific gap It's a great question. I would offer there's a project I recently finished working on called restore Oakland. It's based in the Fruitvale neighborhood of East Oakland It was a joint initiative of two organizations once again the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Restaurant Opportunity Centres United We did an equitable economic development project 18,000 square feet blah, blah, blah, blah I think one of the things that I learned in working on that project was that being able to kind of find those Those financial partners right that were able to kind of work with us in the early stages Those that were able to kind of provide us with both the grant dollars But then also the long-term patient capital that allowed us to do the capacity building of our staff that allowed us to do the business plan And feasibility those were the things that then we could say we had de-risked our project When we the but then go and talk to kind of traditional capital markets Around how to then finance the acquisition and then the bridge loan for the project I think finding those partners that are willing to work with you that can also then help you leverage Right the terms of the type of capital that you're trying to get is it also extremely important on this project I found that community development financial institutions were kind of our greatest allies in both the The early-stage acquisition loan the pre-development dollars, but also the new market tax credits I'm not totally sure the scale of development project that you're doing But the way the CDF eyes are structured their source of funds through C.R.A. C.R.A.'s also made it possible for them to work with us in a way that unfortunately the The PR eyes the MRI Funding of sides of foundations and then even traditional community-based banks and we're not able to work with us So those early partners are really critical to getting to kind of closing that gap And for funders that are in the room, please think about all of the ways that you are investing lending and giving and Please stop demanding market rate returns market rate returns are Extractive if we demand it every time we need to think about integrated returns Because if we're only thinking about financial returns, we're gonna have concessionary environmental returns, and we're gonna have a concessionary social returns, so Provide the philanthropic capital. That's the most disruptive capital we can use Invest in PR eyes. There's so many options But but please make sure that on the ground community organizations get funded an early stage So-called risky social enterprises get funding I also want to ask us to start thinking long term So it's not oh the deal's done and buy But we're actually building relationships that will last for a long time And that's part of that speed of trust thing because if somebody's gonna come in and give me a bunch of cash I'm gonna get something done, and that's the last time I ever see them Or I may come in dump a bunch of cash on somebody and then say bye What if we were to think about investing in this person and their dreams over time So that is about building partnerships that are beyond the deal There's there's a moment where things shift suddenly and quickly But that moment usually had many many Acts years days minutes that came before it in order to happen We are nearing an inflection point where there's no option but to use money more wisely If those of us that are working in these fields and have for some years have already seen dramatic expansion of the ideas of the creativity of the options and opportunities, but it's just starting work on We have to work on our own inner self our psychological emotional spiritual That helps us know that we're doing what we must do and to have some faith that there are more of us Find each other keep at it each example and model will build a Bigger base and there's already a pretty good sized base out there so The idea of if any of hopefully not that many people here are worried about becoming a billionaire, but that's just a symbol Become enoughness and use your billionaire energy For billionaire of good deeds and billionaire of things that matter and actions that matter Don't worry about accumulating huge money influence huge money and I think that that's how every change movement actually There's a cycle and we're in it That whole question of what's enough is something I think each of us needs to grapple with like how much do I really need and Then don't have any more than that What if what if we said you know what here's actually what I need and I'm not going to be driven by the fears of lack And then whatever I if I have extra pass it along pass it along Part of the problem is is are all all of these resources are being sequestered based on greed and fear I'm speaking to foundations right here y'all And what if what if instead of 5% what if foundations started to give out 10% a year There's no law that said you can't just says you can't give less than five doesn't mean you can't give more than five For real, what if we said hell? Okay, let's be done in 100 years the spend down What if so that whole question of what is enough? Is an important one both Individually and collectively and you involved in foundations know that that 5% includes all your admin expenses also Hi Alex fair from impact Asia Pacific I'd like to go a little bit deeper if we may and Talk about courage and I'd love to know from each of you When you've been faced with very big odds big barriers What has been your most courageous moment that you can identify to get to where you are now? Thank you We've got eight minutes So you'll need to be brief Yeah, that yeah, I feel like you want me to go into a therapy session So if you want to do that we can we can go there I mean I think I think courage is waking up every day is a black young black woman Who has the audacity to engage in the finance field, right? I think I am very much used to people not kind of seeing me as a person That has any experience knowledge or expertise in this body of work And every day I still have to show up because I'm committed to the communities that I come from and the communities that I serve And so I think this is an opportunity for us to all look within ourselves and figure out. What are we committed to? Where are we committed to living most in integrity with ourselves as human beings and showing up and doing that every day, right? I think that is I think that's the task at hand Right, I think the other pieces that were that were also faced with is can we also engage in a practice of vulnerability? Vulnerability where we are also able to recognize our faults where we are not perfect where we're messing up I think for me even this question of what is enough I jumped a little bit right like as someone who you know My parents grew up in the villages of eastern Nigeria I know what it's like to kind of go back home in the summers and you know not have running water not have Electricity, but I also know that I'm coming back to the United States and I'm gonna have those things So the vulnerability to understand even the work that I'm doing and what I'm asking us to step into all into I am also deeply scared about what it means to have the radical redistribution of land wealth and power that I know we ultimately need But you got to show up and do it anyway Well said beautiful You're here Hi, my name is Patricia Hinnon. I'm with capital sisters international and I'm sorry I was a little bit late so you may have addressed this But how can we get the donor advice funds to do more impact investing? It seems like money's just piling up and fees are being paid and this is supposed to be for charitable charitable purposes Great question. Joel. Do you want to take this Donna Daniels? Do you want to take it? Joel you want to start? All of the above that we've been talking about it's a wake-up call It's getting people to be more aware more conscious and take responsibility and be courageous Yeah, we at RSF we have donor advice funds and we're all about flowing money where it's needed most so We don't get rewarded for that. In fact our incentive system is for us to hang on to it but we encourage people to Flow that money because Money is energy. It's like water. It's like blood if it's not flowing. It's not healthy. It's not doing any good so flow that money and If you're looking to a deaf provider donor advice fund provider make sure they're flowing it make sure they're not sitting on it Could I add to that really quickly? I think the the other piece is policy Right, like I don't think that we can act as if our philanthropic policy just you know We're just doing 5% out of the goodness of our hearts We're only we're doing that because it's a tax haven right so when we talk about the political action We need to take we actually need to change the policy the the tax policy that allows dafts to continue to hold those assets as well So we yeah, we got to do both the moving the money and also changing of policy You know you talked about ask about courage Whatever cousin was talking about courage Move things Move things stop keeping things to ourselves pass it along It's choking us We're choking the planet and so it's it's really important to and here's what I want to say None of us can do this by ourselves Policy it how we have together to get together and change policy Systems are created by people No, one of us can do it But if we don't change the systems around us and challenge the systems and nothing will shift And I think we often make the mistake of thinking. Oh one individual human. I love that little Quote we use by Margaret Mead or whomever it was But even then she talks about a collective group of people shift the policies use your privilege Everybody has some use them use it use it wisely and don't pretend like oh, I don't have any power There's phenomenal power in this room and to be able to go. Okay. Yeah, let me move this let me use my power in a way that creates wholeness and Refuse to to not do that when I when I have the capacity and the and the power to do it And that quote from Margaret Mead is never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has We have time for a brief comment or a brief question Well, I just want to say that about held money There's a big secret which is that if you actually activate your money and you get involved with people and things that matter You're gonna probably feel better and be happier and have a better time and In some ways we can use regulation and we need to we must have the proper policies but we have to inspire people with stories and Share the joy and the privilege that it is to have the opportunity to do good works by choice That's that still exists grab it while it's here If you want to learn more, please come up and say hello. Give us your cards. Check us out online A kaya windwood Joel Solomon a Maca Agbo. I'm Deb Nelson. Thank you so much for joining us the pleasure


Hi everyone Sean with jaspys case breaks calm you're doing 2020 leaf metal draft football jumbo 4 box half case break random team number 1 we've got 29 spots in here because the Bears Seahawks and Texans don't have any hits, so we've removed them We've dropped the checklist in the chat for everybody to see we're gonna go off of this checklist So 29 spots here are the lists We've got from Matt McLaughlin down to Eric jock gave away a bunch of spots in a score 44 a score single pack break and Here are the teams minus those three teams We mentioned earlier from the Arizona Cardinals down to the Washington football team no Seahawks no Texans and no Chicago Bears in here. You can see here's where Chicago typically would have been in alphabetical order Dice roll here to see how many times we're gonna end minus each list and pair them both up five into three eight times one two three four five six seven and eighth and final time From Eric jock down to Trey Roguelo throw that on this spreadsheet Now let's go back and do eight times on the teams one two three four five six seven and eighth and final time From the Los Angeles Chargers my team down to the New England Patriots Not my team make this list a little bit larger here Still got 20 people here in the chat. So open up the trade window just for in case anybody in chat is in this break Eric jock with the Chargers mark hierarchy with the Redskins Gary lasso with the reliance Jason wainer with the Saints Gary lasso With the Giants James majority with the Ravens Trey Roguelo with the Rams and the Jets Gary lasso with the Falcons build a revosion with the Dolphins Gary lasso with the Raiders Debra close with the Eagles Jason wainer with the Packers Gary lasso with the Jaguars Alan Murdoch with the Buccaneers Trey Roguelo with the Colts Gary lasso with the Bills the Bengals and the Cowboys Jason wainer with Steelers and Jamie backicks with the Panthers Jason wainer with the cheese Dan Tyson with the Vikings Jake Rosenbaum with the 49ers Trey Roguelo with the Broncos Matt McLaughlin with the Cardinals Aaron Billingsley with the Browns Bob Barbieri with the Titans and Trey Roguelo with the Patriots Let's go ahead and sort this by team name trade window I'll leave it open while I open up the case and figure out which half we are going to be doing Here is the case itself See sealed case leaf metal draft Eight jumbo boxes in here. So we're gonna be doing four of them and we can see There's four boxes on top four boxes on bottom. So let's go We're gonna do left and right. So let's keep it left and right. So let's pull out the Four boxes on the left keep them there You guys can see even though it's close Nick camera right here showing everything from sky view So those are the four boxes on the left. They will stay on the left four boxes on the right We'll get the case out of the way And there you go So left right one two three for the four boxes on the left four five six for the four boxes on the right Use our handy-dandy trusty dice Find a good one right there. So One two three four five six. Let's see That's a six So we're going with the boxes on the right. These will be for Random team number two So I'll write that on the side right here. Oh, you can see they're all labeled So there is a random tune motor to that will be coming from those same case No talk to trade. So Let's go ahead and Print it out. And here's the final break list Good luck to everyone Let's see some nice stuff in here So there's nine autograph cards plus one autographed one-of-one slabbed truth card per box We're gonna get four slabs plus 36 autograph cards in here And I've got the checklist open as well, but I dropped it in the chat for those that are watching Tenacious D. Kenneth Murray That is numbered three out of four that's going to my Los Angeles Chargers Eric jock Steven Montez armed and dangerous Number nine out of 15 That is going to the Washington football team and Mark Haraki Michael Pirine Numbered 16 out of 60, which I believe is for the New York Jets and trade Roguilo Khalid Kareem Numbered 33 out of 35 that is for the Cincinnati Bengals and Gary Lazo next up Albert Aqua Boonum Numbered 45 out of 50 for the Denver Broncos and Trey Roguilo last spot mojo spot We've got a redemption It's chase young Leaf metal draft football chase young auto card Parallels can be awarded at the time of fulfillment. So we don't know what this will be numbered out of or which version So go ahead and send this in for Mark Haraki Washington football team. I love this set state pride KJ Hill from the Ohio State University No numbering on that one But he is for the my Los Angeles Chargers Eric jock and for the Dallas Cowboys CD lamb touchdown Kings numbered 55 out of 60 Very nice Dallas Cowboys going to Gary Lazo and the slab auto Not yet, I guess deandre swift Black cracked ice Detroit Lions Numbered two out of four a very short print there Gary Lazo Nice looking card and Now the slab card AJ Eponessa One of one tenacious D And it's a proof so no numbering on it, but you can see with the no back on it. That's their proof Slabbed no grade one of one AJ Eponessa I believe is for the bills and he is Buffalo bills going to Gary Lazo nice first box second box See if we can get some of these quarterbacks from this draft class. Well, here's a quarterback James Morgan 7 out of 15 James Morgan is For the New York Jets and Trey Roguillo 7 out of 15 Levisca Chanel Jr. 6 out of 10 should be for the Jacksonville Jaguars and he is Jacksonville Jaguars Gary Lazo AJ Eponessa tenacious D black 3 out of 4 Buffalo bills Gary Lazo Julian Aquara 1 out of 4 see For the Detroit Lions Also Gary Lazo Gary's cleaning up. He's hot Colisea Lipscomb 16 out of 25 Remember where Lipscomb is Kansas City Chiefs Going to Jason Wainer Michael Pittman, Jr. No need to look that one up 20 out of 20 Indianapolis Colts Trey Roguillo got a very nice pink here clave on chase on Numbered 18 out of 20 going to the Jacksonville Jaguars Gary Lazo Austin Mack Black cracked ice four out of four That's going to the New York Giants Gary Lazo and our slabs we have two slab cards in this one guys Not just one first up clear van Jefferson No numbering on that. I'm guessing that's also one of one. Maybe Yeah, one of one. It says right there clear red van Jefferson should be for the Los Angeles Rams Trey Roguillo And our second slab Jacob Eason one-of-one purple wave Jacob Eason is going to be going to the Indianapolis Colts Indianapolis Colts Trey Roguillo There you go Trey halfway there box three guys box three starting off with Jalen Rigor 11 out of 25 for the Philadelphia Eagles And Debra Close We have another chase young redemption leaf metal draft football another parallel Washington football team mark Parakee Kendrick Rogers Have to look that one up again 40 out of 40 and he's going to the Dallas Cowboys Gary Lazo Cole McDonald armed and dangerous 15 out of 35 Cole McDonald going to the Tennessee Titans Bob Barbieri Chase Claypool One out of four should be for the Steelers Pittsburgh Steelers Jason wainer Isaiah Simmons tenacious D Nice crack dice there two out of seven super low number for the Arizona Cardinals Matt McLaughlin Tyler Johnson cracked ice blue six out of ten Should be for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and that's going to Alan Murdoch T Higgins Joe Burroughs new target 23 out of 50 for the Cincinnati Bengals and Gary Lazo and CD land one out of 20 Dallas Cowboys Gary Lazo, and we've got a one-of-one Super prismatic gold Travon digs also going to the Dallas Cowboys Gary Lazo very nice awesome looking card there that was box three fourth and final box everyone first up Khalil Tate 41 out of 50 Going to the Philadelphia Eagles Deborah Close Colin Johnson Four out of ten and that's going to the Jacksonville Jaguars Gary Lazo Justin Jefferson 11 out of 50 For the Minnesota Vikings That's going to Dan Tyson Trayvon digs again No numbering on that Trayvon digs goes to the Dallas Cowboys and Gary Lazo Eno Benjamin three out of five Should be going to the Arizona Cardinals and Matt McLaughlin Patrick Taylor, Jr. 29 out of 50. Where does he go? He's going to the Green Bay Packers and Jason wainer Ray Kwan Davis state pride Ray Kwan Davis is Miami Dolphins Bill Dervosian key Sean Vaughan Tampa Bay Buccaneers four out of five Alan Murdock one of our Quarterbacks we were looking for armed and dangerous Justin Herbert Five out of 15 Los Angeles Chargers Eric jock and our last card Slabbed one of one Kelly Bryant red wave out of There you go Eric woke you up and that's going to other so that is an unaffiliated So we will be randomizing this to the break guys He is not affiliated with any team We go over here. That was the only one you can see Kelly Bryant there other not affiliated So let's go ahead and back to the randomizer Get the original list of customers names enter that list into New randomizer new dice roll four and a three seven times You can see also nothing else in there Seven times on the randomizer. Good luck everyone one two three four five six and seventh and final time congratulations to thanks to Spots two through 29. Hopefully you had some decent hits in the regular break, but congrats to Jason Wayner You've got yourself Kelly Bryant one-of-one slabbed red wave auto that's going your way Thank you very much Jason and guys that was 2020 leaf metal draft football jumbo four box half case break random team number one. I'm Sean Jaspis case breaks calm We'll see you next time


So it's 3.30, so let me just dive right into it. Yeah, so the agenda for today's brief little session is a general understanding of link open data, as well as where wiki data stands and where wiki data is being positioned in this link open data space. I also run through very, very quickly about editing and querying wiki data. I'm not going too much into the details of how to do it because I think in the earlier sessions across the hall, our staff has done a fantastic job, you know, and if you're interested, there are many, many more materials online that you can actually look into, but for the benefit of some of our friends here who may or may not know what wiki data is, I will just quickly run through this part and then I will talk a bit deeper about wiki data partnerships specifically from a wikimedia Germany perspective because I'm from wikimedia Deutschland. And for the second half of this session, I'd like to do a quick check-in with the audience to really think about, you know, how do you think wiki data is relevant for different institutions of the world and how do you think that the community will be able to, you know, see the value of wiki data. So it's more of interactive session, so don't be shy. If you have any questions, we can always talk about it at the last half of this session. So a quick introduction of myself. My name is Alan Ang. I'm a partner manager at wikimedia Deutschland. Wikimedia Deutschland essentially means wikimedia Germany. There is my user name, as you can see, and I can reach via the email there, alan.ang at wikimedia.de. And I was very happy because I'm at Jackie just now. Jackie is from Smithsonian. She got away here at the wikimania. So it is really exciting to see old friends and familiar faces. So link open data. Let me just do a quick overview of what link open data is. In wikimedia Deutschland, we have about three main products that the link open data ecosystem is trying to focus on. The first two are wikibase, wikibase suite and wikibase cloud. So what wikibase essentially is, they are open source database application that allows for collaborative editing and management of structured data. It sounds a bit confusing, but don't worry, you will get a clearer picture of what it is soon. So wikibase comes in two particular forms, wikibase suite and wikibase cloud. Essentially what it means is that wikibase is a software that is actually powering wikidata. And if you want to have your own little mini wikidata in your own repository, feel free to download wikibase or even to use the wikibase software in order to have your own wikidata and be connected with the link open data web. Why are there two products? Wikibase suite is actually a software that you can download via Docker install. So you will require some technical information and understanding of how to implement this. And wikibase cloud is actually our new, wikimedia Deutschland hosted service that is accessible to smaller, less tech savvy users. So what this means is that if you have, I mean, if you do not have the kind of technical competency on how to install wikibase suite into your own database and then what you can do is upload your data set into the cloud service that we provide and it is actually a wikibase software that's powering it. So at the same time, you can also be connected with the link open data web. So you heard of wikibase and of course the highlight of today's conversation is wikidata. So at wikimedia Deutschland, you may or may not know, we are very, very enthusiastic to support and promote wikidata as part of the whole link open data ecosystem. So wikidata essentially is a free and open knowledge graph giving users, giving you access to high quality up to date machine readable data and powers different projects such as Wikipedia. Now I'm just reading from this because we as in the team at wikimedia Deutschland recently spent a lot of effort, rethinking about how we can position wikidata in the bigger scheme of things, right? Especially in the current context of machine learning, generative AI, yeah. So a lot of words here. I'm not going to bore you a lot of words, but let me just give you the gist and essence of it. What is link open data and why is it important? We hear this term running around very often. So what link open data, it means essentially is you see open data and you see link data, right? So if you break down this link open data concept into firstly open data, open data means that data that is freely available for anyone to access and to use it means that it is copyright free, anyone can just use the data for their own little projects or for whatever use they intend to. And open data is important because it can be used by different individuals, businesses, corporations or even NGOs or governments in order to make better decision and to create new products and services and to help the whole world to grow as a whole, right? I mean the whole knowledge work that we're trying to do here. And link data is a way of publishing the data on the web so that the data can be easily connected to other data and other information is available all over the world as well. So what link data does is it works by using standardized formats and protocols to link data together, thereby making it possible for the data to be discovered and retrieved in a more efficient and effective way. So we think about, okay, open data, link data. First you must have data that is open and in order for the world to benefit, to get more, to get understanding to be able to access the open data, we should make sure and support the concept that all open data should be linked together. So link open data therefore is a set of principles for publishing and sharing data on the web in a way that makes it easy for data to be connected and to reuse. So the principles of LOD, which is link open data, include using standardized formats and protocols so that data is openly and publicly available in the whole interconnected work of information. Now I spend some time talking about this because this is very important. In our experience when we talk to different institutions to tell them say, hey, you know, you know, Wicked Data, do you know Wicked Pedia, you know, Wicked Projects, many institutions, organizations, they heard of Wicked Pedia, less so of Wicked Data and even lesser so of Wicked Base, but they understand this as projects. They do not understand why it is important for the organizations to become part of this project and the fundamental reason behind that is link open data, right? So at Wicked Media Germany, we have a vision of a link open data ecosystem where as you can see in the middle here, we see Wicked Data, right, it stands right at the heart of the whole link open data web and you see many, many small Wicked Bases here. These Wicked Bases actually, what it stands for is that different institutions, they use the Wicked Base software in order for them to share their database with the whole ecosystem. And at the heart of this Wicked Data and Wicked Data, as you can see, it's connected to different multiple Wicked Media projects as well. So this is the vision that we have at Wicked Media Deutschland and Wicked Media Germany and this is why we are working hard to not only make sure that the products, namely Wicked Data and Wicked Base, are constantly being updated with the support of the community, but also at the same time, we're doing outreach to different institutions of the world to inform them of link open data, inform them of the different projects and products that we have, and also more importantly, to develop the capacity so that they will be able to onboard these projects successfully. So let me just run through this very quickly. I think it has been discussed several times about what Wicked Data is, so I just want to just put it loud and clear that Wicked Data is a knowledge graph. It is, if you think it's a database, you're not wrong, but a knowledge graph is a higher level of a database because a database can be just a database that different data sets are not connected to each other. For knowledge graph, it means that different items are connected to each other. And it is a very integral part of the Wicked Data projects that contains structured data. And what is interesting is that it is linked to many, many, many, many, many databases, right? Catalogs and websites, et cetera. Like most Wicked Data projects, it is multilingual, which is extremely, extremely important because we believe in inclusivity and we want as many, many communities to come on board as possible. And it's collaborative. So what is important for us to understand is that the data that is on Wicked Data are released under public domain license, CC0, Creative Commons Zero license. And it is based on statements and references, which you more or less have some concept. If you don't, that's fine. I will just give a quick overview of it later. And of course, more importantly, if you have a data in a knowledge graph that is only for humans to interpret, and to this day and age and time, it is insufficient, the data must also be able to be interpreted and manipulated by machines as well, right? In order to create value to the world. A few quick numbers. Wicked Data was launched in 2019, sorry, on the 29th of October in 2012. Last year we celebrated the 10th anniversary birthday of Wicked Data. So today it is, sorry, not today, this year it is actually the 11th year of Wicked Data. And every, sorry, and on 28th, 29th of October this year, we are celebrating the Wicked Data Conference that Wicked Data Germany is co-organizing with Wicked Data Taiwan. So if you have not seen anything about Wicked DataCon, just go online and just type Wicked DataCon 2023, you will see more information to learn more about Wicked Data. As of January this year, there were more than 100 million data items. And there are about 23,000 active editors with more than one edit per month on Wicked Data. And it is arguably the most edited Wicked Media project. Why do I put these numbers here? Because I believe that some of you here from different organizations and institutions, and you have also have experiences in dealing with data. And one of the most critical thing about data is whether the data can be up capped and can be updated frequently. And if you try to update your database within your own means, you find that it's not sustainable. And on Wicked Data, we have a very active community, voluntary community who has been doing edits and updating the data on Wicked Data every month. So this heat graph here is very interesting. And I think it would actually serves as the foundation of why I'm doing what I'm doing here. The heat graph here shows the number, the brighter it is shows the origin of where the data comes from in the world. So as you can see in Europe and North America is very, very bright and other parts of the world, it is not so bright. So when it's not so bright, what this means is that the items of Wicked Data are not in terms of numbers, it's just not reflected there. And what this means is that more majority of the 100 plus million data items come from the Europe and North America. So therefore, we have to do a better job in trying to have more of our presence on Wicked Data so that those projects that are reusing Wicked Data's data will be able to see and understand the kind of projects that we have. So our goal, said Wicked Data, is to give more people more access to more knowledge. It's a very important goal. So we are, I was aggressive but we're actively trying to reach out to different organizations, institutions about Wicked Data. And it's also a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both machines and humans and this is important because we do not want to just build a product that is accessible only for humans or only for machines but actually for both humans and machines. And we also want to provide support inside and outside the Wicked Data projects. We have been working with different institutions as well to provide support for them, not only capacity-wise but also fund some of the projects. We also want to provide free, usable repository and a hub for a link open data. And this underpins a lot of why we do what we do here in Wicked Data, Boiseland. So this is an example of a use of Wicked Data on Wicked Media projects, for example Wikipedia. That's one of our friends we are having this conversation earlier on. I just put Lee Kuan Yew here because we're in Singapore. We could also use other examples as well. So the info box that you see here is actually from Wicked Data. And an example of a Wicked Data item you see every Wicked Data item has an item label. In this case is Lee Kuan Yew and every item label has its own unique identifier, a queue number that is assigned to it with its own unique identifier. And we have gone through this little tutorial earlier on this morning that there's an item description and you also can create some alias and it's a term box that shows you the different languages where the item can be described or can be shown. So we have learned earlier on and I should not dwell too deep but just a quick run through that the items that are structured on Wicked Data takes the form of a triple structure meaning to say it has item property and a corresponding value to it. So how the items are being modded is according to this structure. I put a durian there. I mean, for those of you who do not like durian, you should try durian when you're in Singapore. Yeah, one of my favorite food. So for example, we see here Lee Kuan Yew, right? Has a property instance of and the corresponding value of the instance is a human. This is important because Lee Kuan Yew is not a book. Lee Kuan Yew is not a river. Lee Kuan Yew is a human for this particular item and so therefore we tag attribute human to the instance of and not a durian for sure, yeah. So it's not only instance of, you can also add different properties as well like spouse and then there's a corresponding value of the name of the spouse and you can also add certain qualifiers to qualify the value that you have selected, right? When was the person a spouse and when did this relationship ended, right? And you can also put a reference to it as well. So having all these 100 million items on Wikidata, as you could see from Lee Kuan Yew's example with a Q number of Q131248 and you also saw earlier on that Lee Kuan Yew has a spouse by the name of Koa Gyochoo with a Q number of 1076140 and et cetera, et cetera. So what this means is that every items on Wikidata can therefore be linked and interconnected to each other in this way and this is how in a way this different interesting knowledge graph is being developed before your very eyes. I'm just a very quick one. So Wikidata, we have learned over the past, I think 10, 15 minutes or so is made up of items. For example, Lee Kuan Yew and I've talked to some of our lovely friends earlier on, whichever local community you are from and if you know of some notable people, sportsmen, celebrity or even some author, some writer, some books, some reverse that has not found Wikidata. So you can also create these items. I will give you a quick run through of how you can easily create an item, okay? And every item has a random and unique Q number. For example, Lee Kuan Yew has been assigned a Q131248 and a triple structure is used to model the data on Wikidata, namely item property and value. Now this is important because when you are creating an item or editing an item on Wikidata, you have to think in this way, right? So additional details can also be added to the statements through qualifier and references. Yeah, it's also therefore important to know that items are there for link to each other, as well as different places in other databases and catalogs, hence the name link data. Big web, link open data, right? So editing Wikidata. So there's two ways we can edit items on Wikidata. You can do it manually, right? Or you can do it not manually. So you can create a new item or you can edit an existing item. I'm not sure if it's, let me see this time, okay? Maybe not, but I just run through this very quickly. Instead of doing a demo, I just run through the slides but we can do a quick demo later on.  I can show you how to create and how to link, how to edit. So if you go to Wikidata homepage, you will see this beautiful site. I mean, for people who are familiar with the Wikipages, we think it's beautiful, but for most of my friends, who are not familiar, they're like, wow, this one is very, very different from the usual websites that they go to. So on the left, you can see a create a new item. So if you click on that, then you will be asked to say, okay, what is the labor that you want to create? What's the description? And then what's the aliases? And then once that's done, you can just click the blue button create and the new item will be created, right? Alternatively, you can also do it in a sandbox, right? A sandbox is like a safe space for you to make changes or to test around certain things without actually publishing what you're doing. So apart from manually creating an item or making edits on an item, you can also do automated edits as well. We have different tools on the Wikidata but the more commonly used ones are quick statements to open refine. I think we have earlier on heard from one of our friends who shared about open refine for data reconciliation as well as, I would say mass import, but yeah, in a way for you to upload a list of data into Wikidata effectively instead of just creating item by item, right? There are also other tools as well that you can use on Wikidata. Terminator, nice name, makes a match, cradle, Wikidata fist. Most of these tools were actually created and developed by members of the community and it is not developed by Wikimedia Deutschland, right? So we actually work very, very closely with the community members to come together to understand how we can build a stronger and better ecosystem for Wikidata. So having more than 100 million items of Wikidata, what is the point if you're not able to query the items and data on Wikidata? Just now, Asaf has done a very fantastic a session of Query and Wikidata and I absolutely love it, I learn a lot from him but essentially we know that there's two ways to query Wikidata. The first is through the Wikidata query service where you will need some basic sparkle language. Just copy and paste and make some changes, explore if you have got issues or questions. You want to do some advanced querying, there's always various tutorial guides, videos available on the internet but otherwise send me an email, I can point you to certain resources, or we can also run a query, sparkle query workshop, one of the sessions in the future, right? So if you do not have any query, sparkle query language background, no fear, there's also the Wikidata query builder where as you can see the interface over there, it looks fairly easy and straightforward to navigate. You just type in whatever properties, items and then you will be able to run the query, sorry, just properties, yeah, some of the inputs that you can have. So these are just some of the example queries that you can actually do with a Wikidata, statues measuring more than 30 meters in height all over the world. You can also display them in different ways, in different visualization, different ways to visualize them. You can do a timeline, you can do a map, you can do a bubble graph, just to give you an idea of how the different data can be represented on Wikidata's query service. So if you are interested in querying Wikidata, there's, I just put two courses here, the first was this morning session and the next one is actually 16th of August, 1115, room 309, the session name is called First Steps with Sparkle. So you can feel free to join this particular session if you are very interested to learn more about how to query a Wikidata with Sparkle. Now comes the interesting part. Yes, I see your hand being raised up. This is exactly what I'm gonna talk about in the next slides, ta-da, you know, Wikidata partnerships, so very good question. Let me just pause that and see if I answer your question. Excuse me, excuse me. So, yes. English Wikipedia or taken from Chinese Wikipedia, as simple as that, in which it cannot be, I mean, we cannot verify, I mean, where this thing comes from because if they say, they take it from English Wikipedia and then someone edits in that English Wikipedia, then we cannot trace back, I mean, from where that statement was taken from. Secondly, just now you were talking about Lee Kuan Yew. Of course, Lee Kuan Yew is like a single entity. It has its name Hyde Alma Mater, his favorite food, his spouse name, his previous job discretion, Prime Minister, Minister. It's so easy, but how about going to more outline kind of like topic or in Wikidata, we call it like high importance. Let's say like for Singapore, it's the article of culture of Singapore, crime of Singapore, history of Singapore. I don't see there is enough statement in the Wikidata of that particular article. I mean, let's say like culture of Singapore, it's just probably like subclass of sociology of Singapore or country Singapore facet of culture. That's all, only like a couple of statement. I mean, first of all, that one is a really high importance, high importance level of article in any Wikiproject. Let's say like culture of Singapore, history of Singapore, but in Wikidata itself, there are only like three, four statement. I mean, so what's the point? I mean, I mean, what to extract from that? Okay, I mean, to answer your observation, right? It's not exactly a question per se. For someone to enrich the data on Singapore, you will realize that we need a more stronger Wikimedia Singapore community, which unfortunately in Singapore, we do not have a Wikimedia Singapore community. There's only a handful of us, right? I think five people that we know of who are Singaporeans and active on the Wikiprojects. And most of them, or most of us are actually on Wikipedia, right, and less on Wikidata. And this is not something that's unique to Singapore, but actually also unique to this part of the world, the ECEAP region, as well as in Africa and even Latin America as well, where Wikipedia is a more well-known project and the Wikimedia community is actually more vibrant. And not many members of the Wikicommunity really hears about Wikidata. And that's this, I don't know, you can call it a psychological barrier about trying to get involved in Wikidata. But therein lies that little conundrum that we are facing, right? So if the community is focusing a lot on Wikipedia and then English, for example, in Singapore, but the same article is also in different languages, and if one wants to make a change on this particular information on this article, that means this community member has to make a change on the different languages. But the way to bypass this is actually Wikidata. So that's why we are here trying, we from Wikimedia Germany, as well as the Wikidata community says, hey, you know, there's such a big Wikidata and we want to grow the community to raise awareness so that more members of the Wikicommunity will hear about Wikidata, not only Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, but also where the essence of it all, the importance of Wikidata in the whole link open data web, right? So you just need to make sure that we have a very robust, I would say make sure, but we try to have a robust, good quality data of Wikidata. And then it would actually have very tremendous value for all the different projects. So yes, Jackie. Wiki platform in essence is a collaborative tool. So Wikidata is trying to communicate and using a structural data called RDF. It is based on RDF, but it's not pure RDF. So it is trying to convey the triple concept into the community. And to your question, is that some items only have two statements or three statements, a very bare minimum because oftentimes they were generated by bot. And all they have is they're just want to get in there and occupy a space. Now case in point was I was watching a TV drama that was talking about the antiquity of Chinese cultural civilization. And came to, they're talking about the dance, that called Dunhuang Dance. That is all the school in Beijing, dancing school in Beijing basically created this particular dance based on the mural on Dunhuang caves. So I was surprised that I find an entity in the system and it was generated in 2013. And for 10 years, there's only three statements. And because I was, you know, I watched this series and then there's that two episode describing this dance. Then I went on to research because I was just interested. Then I just beef it up into, you know, maybe 10 or 20 statements. So the moral of this is that don't get discouraged if you have come across an item and you just think there's only two, three statement. What's the point? Well, you never know because someone else may come along behind you and beef it up. And the next thing you know, they got ingested, retrieved and then more people come behind you and add the statement. I think the goal here for wiki environment is that get the word out and get the interest infused in people and so they can pick up the ball and that's run together. Thank you. Jackie is from Spinksonian libraries. So we have been working with Spinksonian for a long time whether wiki data, wiki base or also other wiki media projects as well. So I mean, as an institution. So we understand, thank you for the question observation and thank you Jackie for elaborating because it really touches us because we really want to raise awareness about wiki data and to get a community to be more active on it, right? Given the significance of the role that wiki data is playing in the link open data web. Are you okay with that? Yeah? Yeah. I mean, after this session, I'll be around. Feel free to come to me. We can have more conversation. I'm very, very happy to do that. So wiki data partnerships. So I just want to run through very quickly about this. Who are the data partners for wiki data, right? Essentially, it's organizations, yeah? We have colleagues who are working with the community and they are the community communication managers. And for me as a partner manager, we are really reaching out to different organizations and institutions all over the world about link open data, wiki data, wiki base. Yeah. See you later, Jackie. So in what way do organizations interact with wiki data? I just list down here in two main ways. The first is to reuse, right? To reuse the data or wiki data, right? For the different projects that they have. The projects can be small, individual. I'm a university student.  This is one way where institutions and organizations are actually interacting with wiki data. The second way is actually contributing, right? Contributing in three big ways. The first is to support us in finding mismatches on wiki data versus the database. For example, if in the library's database, the birthday of Lee Kuan Yew is, you know, 2005, obviously it's wrong. And then on wiki data, it is actually, you know, 19-something. Then there's a discrepancy. And what is useful is that, you know, they can actually surface this mismatch that they have found and then we can make some changes to it and to correct the data. Or they can even contribute data, right? Let's say, for example, in different, some museums and archives in the rural area of India, which is far, far away, and they have an open collection that has a very good, wonderful collection of the indigenous culture. But it's not shared with the world, right? They have a museum that people pay tickets to walk in and nobody really have, the world doesn't have much access to it. But if they are able to open up and contribute, they are open data to wiki data or to be connected link open data web, then more people in the world, more institutions, more organizations will be able to have access and learn more about, you know, the local indigenous culture, right? And also, of course, there are many, many organizations in the process of wiki data. They realized that there's a lack of some tools and we want to build certain tools for wiki data. And so they built tools for wiki data. So who are the wiki data re-users? You know, we have wiki data editors, the 21,000 per month, you know, wiki media projects, have you seen earlier on wikipedia, wiki media commons, you know, they reuse wiki data as data, companies, organizations and communities, such as OpenStreetMap, big OpenStreetMap community, and they're using data for wiki data, MapKata, GovDirectory, Amazon, you have mentioned Google, Microsoft, IBM, Orange, Telco from France. I wrote them down here because I know for a fact that they have been different, they have different projects working on wiki data and also public institutions, government agencies, government projects and even a glam institutions, libraries, galleries, archives, museums as well as we have seen earlier on from Spiffsonian, they have been reusing wiki data as data and working with wiki data for a long time. We have newspapers and data journalists, I've interacted with different news agencies as well, they have been reusing wiki data as data in the kind of media report that they put up, you know, like for example, something happens in this, that part of the, in some parts of the world and they need to know, you know, what is the capital city of the country, for example, and all this data can actually come from wiki data. So we have got scientists and researchers, you know, like Jay Storlabs opened up browser, for example, they have been reusing wiki data as data and of course, there's many, many, many more and I've put a link here to last year's conference event that we have organized called Data Reuse Days. So at Data Reuse Days, we have a lot of Data Reusers companies and organizations that gave a presentation on how they have been reusing wiki data as data for the different projects. So the link is here. I will share the presentation deck with everyone and there's so many, so many more organizations and companies that we have not known of yet because there's no need to tell us if you are using wiki data's data for your project, right? And there's no way we will know. What we do know and how we know is when some of these companies and organizations, they run to certain issues and they write to us, write to me and they say, hey, you know, we've got some questions and issues, how do we solve this? And that's when, ah, we realized it. So you are using wiki data's data, right? So that's how we know that. If you're interested in Data Reuse and the topic of the Reusers, I've put in two sessions here. One is the Data Reuse and Reuse session and the other one is on 19 of August, is Data Partnerships and Future of League Open Data that is taking place on 19 of August. So have I answered some of the questions on, you know, is Google using us? Yeah? I mean, as to how they are using us, how which of these companies are using us, we may not know for a fact, clearly how they are using. But one of those examples is like, you know, Amazon Alexa, you know, you ask some questions and the answers that they gave, it's being put from wiki data or Microsoft Bing, for example, you know, or even the Microsoft Maps, they are also using wiki data's data and yeah, many, many other, you know, exclusive projects that they have, you know, that we have unheard of, yeah. Yes, you have a question there? Ah, okay. So this might be related to the privacy of wiki data. A few months ago, I was editing some articles about Indonesian legislative candidates and I found out that someone in wiki data has made all the item pages for the Indonesian legislative candidates and what's interesting is in the data page, they put the location of the legislative candidate and what, and more interesting is that they infer the location of the legislative candidates based on the identity number that the editor has obtained through the dataset. They've, apparently they've got the data to go GitHub and that they, what do you say? Use the GitHub file for the wiki data. Is this kind of thing acceptable in wiki data and should we remove it from the data or should we just keep it because the location is not too, it's still broad but it used the identity number. That's my question. Wow, I mean, I mean, it doesn't sound very ethical, right? To expose the location using the identity number of anybody else in this world and putting on wiki data. So I think if we work based on common sense and pure, you know, ethics value, the value of ethics that we have as a community, if we see this, I think we should just remove it, yeah? Yeah, I think this is, I mean, whether you are a politician, celebrity or you're just an average person, I don't think we want our identity number or location to be on open platform for the world to see or to use. So yeah, but good, thank you for raising up and good work in finding it out because this is what the community is for, right? We are here to check and balance vandalism across different wiki projects, they are always there, but we believe in the power of community, yeah? Yeah, so that kind of took me longer than I have a plan for, but we had about 45 minutes or so of discussing what wiki data is, what wiki data partnerships is about. I just want to do a quick check-in with everyone here. Now you have understood a bit deeper about wiki data's role in the whole link open data web. You have also understood that, you know, there can be 100 million items, but if nobody's reusing these items, what's the point of having 100 million items, right? You also learned and understood that, hey, there are many, many big corporations, you know, even projects out there that are using wiki data's data. That means that your contribution or the community's contribution of wiki data is actually, has a value, right? Someone is using your data that we have put in together. But as a partner manager myself, I would like to check in with the community, not only yourself, but also with a wider audience next time, is that should we engage and attract more organizational users to wiki data, yeah? This is one of the questions that I want to ask to think about just if you raise your hands and shout or something, you know, this is nothing formal, I'm not going to do a survey, yeah? Second question I want us to think about is, you know, should organizations contribute more to wiki data, right?   We can say yes or no, doesn't matter. But should they contribute back to wiki data, you know? If so, how, right? Because some of the biggest issues and challenges that we have faced where we talk to big companies of corporations is, you know, wow, I mean, it's open source, right? It's there, so we just use it, anybody can use it, you know? And then what do you want us to do? You want us to give you $10 million in exchange for that? So yeah, that's this little kind of struggle. So what ways do you think, you know, as a community ourselves here, do we like for these re-users to contribute to wiki data?  Because when we ask questions like this, it will help us to reflect a bit more about what kind of data we want to put on wiki data, right? And how would this data, even the quality of data would enable different projects to rip the benefits of the knowledge that we have put inside there, yeah?  Otherwise, I'll be very happy to have this conversation offline if you're a bit shy. I understand that, not a problem. Yeah, I'm aware that we have friends from the Philippines community here, right? Yay! And Prim is from Cambodia, right? Yeah, and Indonesia, right? And where else are y'all represented if I may just go by the room? In India? Okay, nice to meet you. Ghana, oh, Ghana, yes, nice to meet you too. In India, and my friend over the corner. Philippines, oh, that's wonderful. Philippines, and gentlemen at the back. Malaysia, oh, yes, this is wonderful. I mean, I'm a Singaporean myself, right? So I think we are all very neighborliness. I can just give you some examples of the projects that I'm currently working on. As my friends from Indonesia, you may or may not know that Wikimedia Germany has been over the past one year putting a lot of funds into Wikimedia Indonesia to develop the technical capacity of lexims, lexical graphical data on Wikidata. If you're not aware of it, yeah, please be aware of it. We are very dedicated into raising the awareness of Wikidata in this region, yeah? And I've mentioned earlier on that we are working with Wikimedia Taiwan as well, this year for WikidataCon and Ghana. I'm currently working on a project with the Takabani user group, right? To work with the Ghana parliament, right? To open up the data of Ghana parliamentarians since independence until today. Yeah, so in India, we have a local colleague who's in India from the Bodhi, I'm not sure if you've heard of him Bodhi, yeah? So yeah, and he's also supporting us in reaching out to different institutions as well about Wikidata, Wikibase, and also we are developing a capacity building as well. Yeah, so Cambodia, I'm also now in conversation with Prim, right? Yeah, Prim is from a cultural institution, am I right to say that? Is it culture? Is it right to ask a cultural institution as well? And so Malaysia is one that I want to really talk a bit closer to. Are you the only person from Malaysia? Wow, okay. And coming in Singapore and Wikimedia this time, are you the only one? 20 in Singapore, wow, fantastic. So we should really have a conversation sometime, yeah. So we as a Wikimedia Deutschland, we are actively trying to work closer with the different communities to raise awareness about link open data, Wikidata as well as Wikibase and to develop the capacity for this as well, yeah. So as you can see, Glam institutions are some of the biggest users and re-users of Wikidata. And we really want to, you know, we need your support in helping us to reach out to the different Glam institutions as well to see how they can share their data on Wikidata or the Wikimedia projects, you know, so that more parts of the world can benefit from it and we can, where's the hit map? We can have, you know, brighter sports, right? In our parts of the world, yeah? And not just dominated by, you know, North American Europe, the data of Wikidata, yeah. Anybody has any questions or issues that you want to discuss or follow up with? Yes? So I think I just want to answer the question in the slide that you've presented, like in Indonesia we also have really a lot of Wikidata competition because one of the biggest question that people ask in Indonesia like other Wikimedia projects is how do we get paid? We work, we make the data, and so what's the return for us? So a lot of Indonesians doesn't understand it. So it's really hard to attract people from Indonesia to edit Wikidata. And so the way to attract people is to do competitions, do rewards, give rewards to people who had work. So yeah, it's really not a sustainable way to attract editors but so far it's going good. We've had increases from Wikimedia editors interested in joining Wikidata as well as Wikimedia Indonesia. Well, this is really innovative idea of having competitions. And do you give rewards, one of the three rewards for the competition? Do you give prizes of like, 100 million rupiah or something? I think it's more of a certificate. Yeah, okay, that's nice. And yeah, the flies are limited. I've never seen the ones where they give money but probably more of like stuff such as books or immunizations or mobile data packets. Like last time I've joined one and I was given like 100,000 rupiahs of mobile data to use. There you go, see? So it's a very innovative and creative way to try to engage the community. And this is one of the common issues that we have been facing as well. For myself, it's really talking to the different government officials, right? It was like, oh, you know, why should we do that? Oh, you know, why do we want to do that? What's the benefits? So, but one of the ways that we managed to overcome and achieve some of these challenges is if let's say, for example, a museum in Malaysia, right? Some parts of Malaysia, Sabah, for example, right? KK in Sabah is they've got indigenous culture and we want to actually encourage them to open up their archives, you know, if assuming that they're all open data and to share the legal open data web and we need some local support, we can always support them in applying for grants from other foundation or even apply for funds and grants from other international organizations that will help to meet this course. We have achieved this in one project in Singapore. It's called the Community Archives in Singapore from my community. We've supported one from Nigeria as well. In fact, the Nigerian Libraries project, we are ongoing now to develop the capacity for WikiData in order to upload bibliographic data onto WikiBase and WikiData and also the Ghana Parliament Project as well. So it's also funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland as a technical supporter. We are actually supporting them in getting the grants. So these are some of the ways where we can help to address the lack of financial resource issues and questions. So I think in Philippines, it's going to be quite exciting and yeah, I mean, I look forward to work with the friends from Philippines as well. Any questions, ideas you want to share? Yes, no? We have about five more minutes. Otherwise, no, I can always conclude early on, sorry, conclude early and then we can all have a cup of coffee and talk over tea break. All right, so if there's no further questions or ideas, thank you all for the attention and thank you for sitting through this. My name is Alan once again and I'm sorry, my email is at the front. Please reach out to me. Let me show again my email and I would love to keep in touch with everyone if you have whatever ideas or if you have other opportunities or if you think that there's several ways we can work closer together. Oh, by the way, Wikimedia Deutschland is the largest Wikimedia chapter outside of Wikimedia Foundation. And we have about 150 people on Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimdata is actually, we are managing and running Wikidata as well as Wikibase and of course German Wikipedia as well. So, yeah, thank you, thank you.


Hi, my name is John. I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama. This is a quick walkthrough for faculty and staff on how to upload electronic course reserves to Blackboard Learn. So first, make a reserve request with the appropriate library by emailing a copy of the reserves request form and your syllabus to the appropriate library staff. You can find this form and this info on the course reserves faculty instructions page on the library's website, and I've provided a link to this page in the description of this video. So starting inside your course homepage in Blackboard, first make sure that the edit mode is toggled to on. And this next step isn't necessary, but I'm clicking build content and first creating a content folder, entitling it weekly readings. And I'll leave the description blank, but that would be where I would enter it. You want to make sure that permit users to view this content is set to yes and click submit. And then this creates the folder in the course. So this is the empty folder we just created. Now it's at a course reading. So under build content again, select create file into the name of the reading as you'd like for it to appear. And then click browse my computer and navigate to where you save the PDFs that the library emailed to you. So in the file options here, if you select no, it will display the PDF in a reader inside of Blackboard. And if you click yes, it will prompt the user to download the PDF to their system. So I'm selecting no. Now the chapter is listed in the folder. And when collected opens a reader view for the PDF so it can be viewed in the course shell as well as printed off or downloaded by your students. Repeat this process for all the readings you want to upload, and that's about it. So thanks for watching. And if you'd like assistance uploading your reserves, see the link in the video description for another tutorial on how to add a library specialist to your course. Contact us if you have further questions.