Eleições da Wikimedia Foundation/2024/Candidatura/Mohammed Awal Alhassan
Mohammed Awal Alhassan (Alhassan Mohammed Awal)
Alhassan Mohammed Awal (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)
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| A contagem total de palavras para a candidatura inteira (perguntas obrigatórias + opcionais) é de 1000 (mil) palavras | ||
| Perguntas obrigatórias | ||
| Por que você está se candidatando ao Conselho Administrativo da Fundação Wikimedia? Com o que você contribuiria? Sobre o que você gostaria de aprender mais? | Tenho paixão pelo voluntariado e, quando soube que havia um espaço na internet onde voluntários poderiam promover seus idiomas e tornar o conhecimento compartilhado nessa plataforma livremente acessível a todos, não hesitei em aprender como me tornar um membro. Rapidamente criei minha conta de usuário Wikimedia como ativista digital do idioma dagani. Posteriormente, descobri vários outros projetos Wikimedia além da Wikipédia, o que aumentou meu interesse em me envolver mais com as atividades do Movimento, inclusive em funções de voluntariado. | |
| Descreva sua experiência com a Wikimedia (como contribuições para os projetos Wikimedia, adesão a organizações ou afiliados Wikimedia, atividades como organizador ou organizadora do movimento Wikimedia ou participação em uma organização aliada do movimento Wikimedia). | Desde que me tornei um wikimedista, meu histórico de conduta, funções de liderança e contribuições para vários projetos voluntariamente são algo de que me orgulho.
Sou membro da equipe principal e atuei como gerente de comunicações, divulgação e campanhas do Dagbani Wikimedians User Group (dagbaniwikimedia.org). Atualmente, sou o colíder da comunidade Wikimedia Dagaare e ajudei a Wikipédia em dagaare a sair da incubadora em menos de um ano, em 2023. Creative Commons: Em 2022, fui colíder do Grupo de Trabalho Interseções entre Conhecimento Tradicional e Direitos Autorais (WG) para ter uma noção melhor das questões importantes sobre a relação entre conhecimento tradicional, grupos e recursos e as licenças CC, princípios CC e direitos autorais. Também atuei como membro do Grupo de trabalho, Comunidade do Patrimônio Digital e Acesso Aberto e participei e contribuí com os resultados da pesquisa do grupo e com a análise de casos de iniciativas internacionais de patrimônio da comunidade digital. Meus esforços na comunidade do CC permitiram que eu me tornasse um dos vencedores deste ano do fundo de atividades do CC. Fui voluntário como conselheiro do MCDC e embaixador da Carta do Movimento. Fui voluntário no LD4: Comitê de Planejamento da Conferência LD4 2023 e membro do Subcomitê de Divulgação. Este ano, sou copresidente para a conferência de 2024, que ocorrerá no final do ano. Fui o principal organizador e líder de projeto do Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 em Gana e coordenador do Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism e Folklore 2023 e 2024. Sou um organizador regular da campanha Art+Femism e administrador do mailing list da comunidade Art+Feminism. Embaixador Tech Wikimedia e um dos apresentadores da sessão na WikiIndaba 2021 sobre Lexicografia. | |
| Do seu ponto de vista, o que a Fundação Wikimedia deve priorizar nos próximos 5 a 10 anos e por que você as considera como as prioridades mais importantes? | A Fundação deve se esforçar para garantir a Equidade nas Tomadas de Decisão nas atividades do movimento, o que é uma das Iniciativas da Carta do Movimento, e investir mais no apoio aos grupos indígenas e sub-representados. Minorias/indígenas e grupos devem ser envolvidos nas tomadas de decisão para se sentirem parte dos processos e para garantir que ninguém seja deixado para trás, e a missão da fundação de tornar o conhecimento livremente acessível a todos se tornaria realidade. | |
| 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? | ||
| Verificação | Verificação realizada pelo comitê eleitoral ou pelos funcionários da Fundação Wikimedia. | |
Elegibilidade:  VerificadoVerificado por: KTC (talk) 20:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
Identificação: Verificado Verificado por: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 04:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC) | |