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Wikimedia Israel is an Israeli non-profit organization working in cooperation with the the international Wikimedia Foundation. The organization is working to promote knowledge and education in Israel by gathering, creating and distributing free content.

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The Second Wiki Academy Conference in Israel will take place on Monday, 14th June 2010, at 9:00 at the Fastlicht Auditorium in the Mexico Building of the Tel Aviv University Campus.

The conference is organized by Wikimedia Israel in collaboration with the School of Communication at Netanya Academic College and the University of Haifa, and through the sponsorship of The Netvision Institute and the Sagy Center for the Study of the Internet.

Keynote Speakers:

• Mr. Samuel J Klein, Member of the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, head of the, One Laptop per Child Project in the United States.
• Prof. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore, Author of "Delete" - On the virtue of forgetting information in the digital age.

Further information and registration

The Wikimedia Foundation has accepted the offer of Wikimedia Israel to host the 2011 Wikimania Conference in the city of Haifa. The conference will take place on 4 - 7 August 2011, at the Haifa Auditorium (Further Information).

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