維基媒體基金會理事會選舉/2024年/候選人/Mohammed Awal Alhassan
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Mohammed Awal Alhassan (Alhassan Mohammed Awal)
Alhassan Mohammed Awal (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)
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| 您為何競選維基媒體基金會理事會成員？您會為維基媒體基金會理事會貢獻什麼？您想進一步了解什麼？ | 我對志願服務充滿熱情，當我第一次聽說有一個互聯網空間，志願者可以在其中推廣他們的語言並使所有人可以自由訪問該平台上共享的知識時，我毫不猶豫地學習如何成為其成員。作為達巴尼語的數位活動家，我很快就創建了我的維基媒體用戶帳戶。後來我發現了除維基百科之外的其他幾個維基媒體專案，這增加了我更多參與維基媒體運動活動的興趣，包括擔任志願者的角色。 | |
| 請描述您的維基媒體經驗（例如：對維基媒體專案的貢獻、維基媒體組織或維基媒體自治體的成員資格、作為維基媒體運動組織者的活動或參與維基媒體運動盟友組織）。 | 自從成為維基媒體成員以來，我在行為、領導角色以及自願對多個專案的貢獻方面的記錄讓我感到自豪。
我是達巴尼語維基媒體成員用戶組核心團隊成員，並擔任的通訊、外展和活動經理(dagbaniwikimedia.org)。 我目前是維基媒體達加爾社群的共同負責人，並幫助達加爾語維基百科在 2023 年不到一年的時間內從維基媒體孵育場上線。 創用CC：2022 年，我共同領導了 傳統知識與版權交叉工作小組 (WG) ，更了解傳統知識、群體和資源與創用CC授權、創用CC原則和版權之間關係的重要議題。 我同時擔任數位社群遺產的工作小組成員，以及開放知識並參與和貢獻了該小組的研究成果，以及對國際數位社群遺產倡議案例的分析。我在創用CC社群的工作讓我成為了今年創用CC活動基金的得獎者之一。 我自願擔任維基媒體運動憲章起草委員會的顧問和維基媒體運動憲章大使。 我自願擔任 LD4：LD4 2023 會議計畫委員會和外展小組委員會成員。今年，我擔任 2024 年會議的聯合主席，該會議將於今年稍後舉行。 我是 加納維基愛民俗2022的主要組織者和計畫負責人，也是維基愛民俗和女性主義與民俗 2023 和 2024 的協調員。 我是藝術+女權主義社群的定期組織者，以及該組織的郵件列表管理員。維基媒體技術大使和 WikiIndaba 2021 會議字典編纂的議程主持人之一。 | |
| 從您的角度來看，維基媒體基金會在未來 5-10 年應該優先考慮什麼，為什麼您認為這些是最重要的優先事項？ | 維基媒體基金會應努力確保維基媒體運動活動決策的公平性，這是維基媒體運動憲章倡議之一，並加強投資原住民和代表性不足的群體。少數群體/原住民和群體應參與決策，感受到自己是決策過程的一部分，並確保沒有人被拋在後面，維基媒體基金會讓所有人自由獲取知識的使命將成為現實。 | |
| 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? | ||
| 驗證 | 驗證由選舉委員會或維基媒體基金會工作人員執行。 | |
資格:  已驗證验证者: KTC (talk) 20:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
身份验证: 已驗證 验证者: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 04:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC) | |