Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Candidates/Mohammed Awal Alhassan/es
Mohammed Awal Alhassan (Alhassan Mohammed Awal)
Alhassan Mohammed Awal (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)
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| El número total de palabras para toda la solicitud (incluyendo las preguntas requeridas y opcionales) es de 1000 (un mil) palabras | ||
| Preguntas requeridas | ||
| ¿Por qué se está postulando para un puesto en la Junta Directiva de la Fundación Wikimedia? ¿Qué es lo que podría contribuir a la misma? ¿Sobre qué le gustaría saber más? | Tengo pasió por el voluntariado, y cuando supe que había un espacio en el Internet en donde las personas voluntarias podían promover sus idiomas y hacer que el conocimiento compartido en esa plataforma fuera libremente accesible a todas las personas, no dudé un momento en aprender cómo ser un integrante. Rápidamente creé mi cuenta de usuario Wikimedia como un activista digital por el idioma Dagbani. Más tarde descubrí varios otros proyectos Wikimedia además de la Wikipedia, lo cual alimentó mi interés en involucrarme más en las actividades del movimiento, incuyendo aprovechar otros roles de voluntariado. | |
| Por favor, describa su experiencia con Wikimedia (tal como sus contribuciones a los proyectos Wikimedia, membresía en organizaciones o afiliados de Wikimedia, actividades como organizador del movimiento Wikimedia, o participación en una organización aliada con el movimiento Wikimedia). | Desde que me hice Wikimedista, mi historial de conducta, roles de liderazgo, y contribuciones voluntarias a varios proyectos, son algo de lo qque estoy muy orgulloso.
Soy uno de los integrantes centrales del equipo, y he servido como Administrador de Comunicaciones, Divulgación, y Campañas para el [1]Grupo de Usuarios Wikimedistas dagbani. Actualmente soy co-líder de la Comunidad Wikimedia Dagaare y ayudpe a la Wikipedia en Dagaare a salir de Incubator en menos de un año en 2023. Creative Commons: En 2022, co-lideré al Grupo de Trabajo en las Intersecciones del Conocimiento Tradicional y el Derecho de Autor para tener un mejor sentido acerca de los temas importantes acerca de la relación entre el conocimiento tradicional, grupos, y recursos y las licencias CC, principios de CC, y derecho de autor. También serví como integrante del Grupo de Trabajo Patrimonio Comunitario Digital, y Acceso Abierto, y participé y contribuí a los resultados de investigación del grupo, así como al análisis de los casos de iniciativas de patrimonio comunitario digitial internacional. Mis esfuerzos en la comunidad CC me valieron ser uno de los ganadores del Fondo de Actividad de CC. Fui consejero voluntario en el MCDC y Embajador de la Carta del Movimiento. Fui voluntario en LD4: Comité de Planeación de Conferencia LD 2023 e integrante del Subcomité de Divulgación. Este año, soy co-presidente para [la conferencia de] 2024, que se celebrará más adelante en el año. Fui el organizador líder y Líder de Proyecto para Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 en Ghana y coordinador de Wiki Loves Folklore y [Feminism and] Folklore 2023 y 2024. Soy un organizador de campañas de Art+Feminism de forma regular y administrador de la lista de correos para la comunidad Art+Feminism. Un Embajador Tecnológico Wikimedia y uno de los presentadores de sesión en WikiIndaba en 2021 acerca de lexicografía. | |
| Desde su perspectiva, ¿cuál o cuáles deberían ser las prioridades de la Fundación Wikimedia en los próximos 5-10 años, y por qué considera que éstas son las prioridades más importantes? | La Fundación debería esforzarse en asegurar la Equidad en Toma de Decisiones en las actividades del movimiento, que es una de las Iniciativas de la Carta del Movimiento e invertir más en apoyar a grupos indígenas y subrepresentados. Los grupos minotiratios/indígenas deberían estar involucrados en las tomas de decisiones para sentirse parte de los procesos y asegurarse que nadie se quede atrás, a fin de que la misión de la fundación—hacer al conocimiento libremente accesible a todos—se pueda volver realidad. | |
| 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? | ||
| Verificación | Verificación realizada por el comité de elecciones o personal de la Fundación Wikimedia. | |
Idoneidad:  VerificadoVerificado por: KTC (talk) 20:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
Identificación: Verificado Verificado por: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 04:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC) | |