Wikidata for education for a country

In 2020, the absence or insufficiency of curriculum documentation in digitally usable formats prevented education systems from being able to quickly and efficiently respond to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on face-to-face learning. Wikimedia, within the scope of the concept note developed by UNESCO under the Global Education Coalition, is seeking a launch proof of concept and pilot project as part of broader efforts to establish links between the national curricula and the content on Wikimedia projects. Wikidata for Education is an initiative that aims to improve the world’s ability to access relevant data about school curricula and to simplify and automate finding and aligning open educational resources to national curricula. In this project, the Ghana Society of Education Technology and Open Foundation West Africa teams built a data model that represents curricula and helps Wikimedians (educators, developers, etc.) upload the curricula data on Wikidata following a standard structure. The main goal of this work is to digitize curricula by providing a data model aligned with a national curriculum framework and UNESCO’s International Standard Classification of Education. In this presentation we described the model using curriculum data in Wikidata, modeled an item for a curriculum and queried curriculum data from Wikidata.