위키미디어 재단 선거/2024년/후보자/바비 샤방구
Bobby Shabangu (Bobbyshabangu)
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| 전체 신청서(필수 + 선택 질문)의 총 단어 수는 1000 단어입니다. | ||
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| 위키미디어 재단 이사회에 출마하는 이유가 무엇인가요? 당신은 무엇에 기여하시겠습니까? 무엇에 대해 더 배우고 싶나요? | 저는 독특한 관점을 제시하고 전 세계 위키미디어 커뮤니티 내에서 더 큰 대표성과 포용성을 옹호하기 위해 위키미디어 재단 이사회에 출마했습니다. 또한 저는 남아프리카공화국에서의 경험(다양한 언어, 경제적 구성, 인권에 초점을 맞춘 헌법)을 통해 대표성이 부족한 지역과 북반구 지역의 기여자들이 직면한 고유한 과제와 기회를 이해할 수 있다고 믿습니다. 저는 운동 전략 2030 목표를 발전시키기 위해 지역사회 구축, 역량 개발, 전략 기획에 대한 전문 지식을 제공하는 것을 목표로 합니다. 또한 저는 전 세계 위키미디어인들을 더 잘 지원하고 역량을 강화하기 위해 효과적인 거버넌스 관행과 글로벌 협업 전략에 대해 더 많이 배우고 싶습니다. | |
| 귀하의 위키미디어 경험(예: 위키미디어 프로젝트에 대한 기여, 위키미디어 조직이나 가맹단체 회원 자격, 위키미디어 운동 조직자로서의 활동, 위키미디어 운동 동맹 조직 참여 등)을 설명해 주세요. | 저는 en, ss, zu, xh, st, 위키미디어 공용, 메타, 위키데이터를 포함한 다양한 남아프리카 언어 및 프로젝트에 기여하고 인큐베이터에서 북부 은데벨레어의 관리자 역할을 합니다.
저는 사람들과 듣고 이야기하는 것을 좋아하며, 새로운 기술을 배우거나 가르치는 것을 좋아합니다. 이는 제가 실제 편집한 내용을 훨씬 뛰어넘는 커뮤니티 봉사 활동을 통해 입증됩니다. 저는 현재 전국의 다양한 대학을 방문하여 학자와 학생들에게 위키백과를 가르치는 SWiP 프로젝트를 이끌고 있습니다. 프로젝트 대시보드는 여기에서 볼 수 있습니다. 수년에 걸쳐 저는 위키백과에 아프리카 콘텐츠가 부족하다는 인식을 높이고, 새로운 사용자를 활성화하고, 아프리카 콘텐츠와 남아프리카 언어를 늘리기 위해 다양한 임무에 맞춰진 기관과 함께 수많은 로드쇼를 실시했습니다. 여기에서 위키미디어 ZA 지부 활동 보고서에 대한 저의 기여를 확인하세요. As a leader, I have served on the board of Wikimedia ZA. I also chair the WikiIndaba Steering Committee (WISCom), which organises the WikiIndaba conferences and has played a pivotal role in addressing unique challenges faced by African Wikimedians and providing solutions. Additionally, I co-founded Afrika Baraza, a platform for Africans to connect, collaborate, and share skills across the continent, and I've also actively participated in the development and implementation of the movement strategy 2030 especially in the African continent through facilitating the Movement Strategy Salons. | |
| 귀하의 관점에서 볼 때, 위키미디어 재단은 향후 5~10년 동안 무엇을 우선순위로 두어야 하며, 이를 가장 중요한 우선순위로 보는 이유는 무엇입니까? | I believe the Wikimedia movement operates in a rapidly changing environment. When we began with the Movement Strategy 2030, AI was not a consideration. MOreover, the outlook of the community, especially in the global South, has evolved significantly. We've seen exponential growth of new contributors in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, from the 10 Recommendations of the 2030 Movement Strategy I think in the next 5-10 years we should prioritise: | |
| Optional questions - Professional Experience, Skills and Education | ||
| Please describe your experience with governing bodies of organizations (nonprofit or for-profit), mentioning the scope of your responsibilities, as well as the complexity of the organization (in terms of scale of operations, budget, number of people involved, or other meaningful measures) and the size of the board or body. | Wikimedia South Africa: : I served on the board of Wikimedia ZA first as a board member and now as the president, where I help drive initiatives to support and grow the local editing community. Additionally. I've learned over the years that an effective leader gets things done, for the first time since I've taken reigns as the president of Wikimedia ZA, we have been able to generate income and resources outside of Wikimedia Foundation grants from our fiscal sponsorship activities, membership subscriptions/donations and partners which has given us the freedom to sponsor some of our community members on different activities, as well as think about investments.
The African Continent: I also chair the WikiIndaba Steering Committee (WISCom), which is responsible for organising the WikiIndaba conferences and has played a pivotal role in addressing unique challenges faced by African Wikimedians. Additionally, I co-founded Afrika Baraza, a platform for Africans to connect, collaborate, and share skills across the continent. My roles within WISCom and Afrika Baraza have enabled me to lead the drafting of the WISCom Charter, a white paper which aims to transform WISCom from a de facto hub to a fully-fledged organization and the African Agenda a document that I believe will advance the Movement Strategy 2030 in Africa, ensuring it remains inclusive and representative of diverse voices from the global South. In the movement: I participated at the Wikimedia summit and was part of the first people to actively contribute to the Wikimedia Movement Strategy. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | Over the years I've played different roles. I was a secretariat for a government department (Department of Land Reform and Rural Development) sitting at the executive committee, I'm also a musician and I've worked at the UN as a knowledge Manager. | |
| Please briefly describe 3 situations that show how you tackled, or advised others on, a complex problem in an organization. How did you work with others to address the situations? | The WikiIndaba conference was scheduled at the same time as the Wiki Francophone convention, which posed a significant problem since both conferences, along with Wiki Arabia, share participants. I reached out to the leaders of both the Wiki Francophone convention and Wiki Arabia, emphasizing the need for collaboration to organize the three conferences in a way that avoids date conflicts. | |
| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | I have a degree in Communications Science. | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-shabangu-76b309216/ | |
| Optional questions - Leadership Experience | ||
| Please describe ways in which you have helped to form a bridge between multiple communities (such as by working on projects outside your home wiki, or working on a collaboration between multiple affiliates). | I have established a Southern African Community group consisting of Wikimedia volunteers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. We are actively seeking volunteers from Angola, Mozambique, and Lesotho to join our group. | |
| Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience? | ||
| How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard? | In South Africa there is no Freedom of Panorama, which means that we can't take pictures and videos or public art. I'm part of the Wikimedians who lobbyed government to adopt copyright reform and sign the copyright amendment bill into law. As it stand a letter as it stands the bill is in the president's office waiting for his signature. | |
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | ||
| Optional questions - Strategic Thinking | ||
| Where do you see the need for greater diversity in the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees or within the movement? What steps would you take to improve diversity on the Board or within the movement? What steps would you recommend the Board take to improve diversity? | I think this question puts me in a perfect spot to apply to sit on the board. Besides the fact that I'm coming from a disadvantaged region, I've actually experienced all the challenges that African and people from the global south are experiencing because I've experienced first hand all the common challenges experienced by volunteers from the Global South.
I believe I will be that dissenting voice that brings a global South voice to the board while also keeping in mind of the existing structures. Hence the Ensuring Equity in Decision Making is one of the key priority areas from the Movement Strategy. | |
| 확인 | 위키미디어 재단 직원이 수행한 신원 확인과 선거 위원회가 수행한 자격 확인 | |
적임:  확인됨입증된: KTC (talk) 19:59, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
신분, 신분증: 확인됨 입증된: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 07:04, 3 June 2024 (UTC) | |