בחירות בקרן ויקימדיה/2024/מועמדים/Mohammed Awal Alhassan
Mohammed Awal Alhassan (Alhassan Mohammed Awal)
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| סך כל המילים בכל הצגת המועמדות (שאלות חובה ורשות) לא יעלה על 1000 (אלף) מילים. | ||
| שאלות חובה | ||
| למה החלטת להתמודד על מקום בחבר הנאמנים של קרן ויקימדיה? מה תוכל/י לתרום? על מה תרצה/י ללמוד עוד? | אני אוהב מאוד להתנדב, וכששמעתי לראשונה שיש מרחב אינטרנט שבו מתנדבים יכולים לקדם את השפות שלהם, ולהביא לשיתוף הידע בפלטפורמה עם גישה חופשית לכולם, לא היססתי ולמדתי איך להפוך לחבר. יצרתי במהירות את חשבון המשתמש שלי בוויקימדיה כפעיל דיגיטלי בשפת דגבאני. מאוחר יותר גיליתי עוד כמה מיזמי ויקימדיה מלבד ויקיפדיה, דבר שהגביר את רצוני להיות מעורב יותר בפעילויות התנועה, ונהניתי לקבל על עצמי תפקידי מתנדב. | |
| תאר/י בבקשה את הניסיון שלך בוויקימדיה (תרומות תוכן למיזמי ויקימדיה, חברוּת בארגונים של ויקימדיה או בארגונים שותפים, פעילויות בתור מארגנ/ת של תנועת ויקימדיה, שותפות עם ארגון שאוהד את המטרות של תנועת ויקימדיה). | מאז שנהייתי ויקימד, יש לי רקורד טוב בהתנהגות, במילוי תפקידי הנהגה ובתרומות בהתנדבות לכמה מיזמים, ואני גאה בכך.
I am a core team member and served as Communications, Outreach, and Campaigns Manager for the [1]Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. I am currently the Co-lead for the Dagaare Wikimedia community and helped the Dagaare Wikipedia to go live from the incubator in less than a year in 2023. Creative Commons: In 2022, I Co-led the Traditional Knowledge and Copyright Intersections Working Group (WG) to gain a better sense of the important issues about the relationship between traditional knowledge, groups, and resources and the CC licenses, CC principles, and copyright. I also served as a Working Group member, Digital Community Heritage, and Open Access and Participated and Contributed to the group's research findings, and analysis of cases of international digital community heritage initiatives. My efforts in the CC community allowed me to become one of this year's winners of the CC activity fund. I volunteered as an advisor to the MCDC and Movement Charter ambassador. I volunteered as LD4: LD4 2023 Conference Planning Committee and Outreach Subcommittee Member. This year, I am a co-chair for 2024 which will take place later in the year. I was the lead organizer and Project Lead for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 in Ghana and Coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism and Folklore 2023 and 2024. I am a regular Art+Femism campaign organizer and Mailing list administrator for the Art+Feminism community. A Wikimedia Tech Ambassador and one of the session presenters at WikiIndaba 2021 on Lexicography. | |
| מנקודת מבטך, מה צריך להיות סדר העדיפויות של קרן ויקימדיה במהלך חמש עד עשר השנים הבאות? מדוע שמת את הנושאים האלה ולא אחרים בראש סדר העדיפויות? | הקרן צריכה להשקיע מאמצים בהבטחת הוגנות בקבלת החלטות בפעילויות התנועה, כיוון שזו אחת מ'יוזמות מגילת התנועה', ולהשקיע יותר בתמיכה בקבוצות ילידיות ובקבוצות שאינן מיוצגות כראוי. קבוצות המיעוט או הקבוצות הילידיות צריכות להיות מעורבות בקבלת ההחלטות כדי להרגיש חלק מהתהליכים, כדי להבטיח שאיש אינו נשאר מאחור, וכדי להגשים את חזון הקרן להבטיח גישה חופשית לידע חופשי לכולם. | |
| 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. | I serve in different organizations in diiferent capacities. I am a Council Member for Global Voices, a Fellow and mentor at Ghana School for Internet Governance which is a Fellowship program by E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa to train Fellows from different parts of Africa on internet governance issues. Internet Society Ghana (ISOC Ghana): Communications Team Member. Manage all the organization's communications, including mailing lists, social media platforms, and general publications voluntarily. Also was Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): Member of the Universal Acceptance Communications Working Group in charge of crafting and sending out posts and general communications to the public through emails, social media, and blogs/websites. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | Professionally, I am an educationist working with Ghana Education Service since 2007. I worked a classroom teacher, a Head teacher, and was later elevated to the education directorate where I served in variouse schedules as an examinations officer, Basic Education Coordinator and currently serving as School Improvement Support Officer where I offer mentorship support to teachers on the job and young and upcoming teachers to improve learning outcomes in the Ghanaian schools.
I am also a Digital Language Activist interested in supporting the preservation of the indegenous languages on the internet space. | |
| 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 first was when the Executive Director of a local NGO I co-founded with never appreciated any efforts I made in the organization and always get angry with me at every little situation. My colleagues noticed it and was worried and they were afraid of the results if I decide to react. I calm the nerves of everyone by secretly meeting with the Executive Director alone and voicing out my frustrations to him and sought for his advise as to how I could possibly meet his expectations without compromising on the vission priciples of the organization. He explained that I made a damning remark about him to one of members of the organization and the person came to tell him what I said and that angered him. He advised me to always say about my superiors words that will not hurt them when they hear it and that I should be careful of those I call my friends. I apologized to him and we were good to go.
The second case was in one of my field work at Ghana Education Service where I was paired with two other people for some data collection in schools. These two guys got angry at each other and would talk to each in the field. I realized this was going to affect our work if allowed to continue. After work the fisrt day, I called one of them and told her that the other one said I should apologize to her on her behalf and that she should her if she accepted the appology. I did the same to the other one and lo and behold, the two bought and eat food together before we started work the next day | |
| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | 1. Dilolma in Basic Education, specialized in Dagbani Language. With this background, I can translate materials into the indegenous Dagbani Language to aid undersatnding by native Dagabani Wikimedians and to ensure diversity and inclusivity in the governance issues. 2. Degree in Basic Eduaction, specialized in social science which is relevant in relating well with or socializing well with people from diffent backgrounds to achive a common goal. | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2022/06/22/meet-alhassan-mohammed-awal-dagbani-language-activist/ and LinkedIn | |
| 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). | ||
| 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? | ||
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | I keep in mind the core values/priciples, mission and vission of the organization and work towards that while taking appropraite steps to seek redress of any concerns I may have. | |
| 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? | ||
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זכאות:  אומתאומת על ידי: KTC (talk) 20:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
זיהוי: אומת אומת על ידי: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 04:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC) | |