Elezioni Wikimedia Foundation/2024/Candidati/Mohammed Awal Alhassan
Mohammed Awal Alhassan (Alhassan Mohammed Awal)
Alhassan Mohammed Awal (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)
| Dettagli sui candidati | 
| |
|---|---|---|
| Il numero totale di parole per l'intera candidatura (domande obbligatorie + facoltative) è di 1000 (mille) parole. | ||
| Domande obbligatorie | ||
| Perché ti candidi al Board of Trustees di Wikimedia Foundation? Quale sarà il tuo contributo? Quali sono i temi su cui vorresti sapere di più? | Ho una passione per il volontariato e quando ho sentito per la prima volta che esisteva uno spazio internet in cui i volontari potevano promuovere le loro lingue e rendere la conoscenza condivisa su quella piattaforma liberamente accessibile a tutti, non ho esitato a imparare come farne parte. Ho subito creato il mio account utente Wikimedia come attivista digitale della lingua Dagbani. In seguito ho scoperto altri progetti Wikimedia, oltre a Wikipedia, che hanno accresciuto il mio interesse per un maggiore coinvolgimento nelle attività del movimento, anche attraverso ruoli di volontariato. | |
| Descrivi la tua esperienza nel mondo Wikimedia (ad esempio contributi ai progetti Wikimedia, appartenenza a organizzazioni o affiliati Wikimedia, attività come organizzatore del movimento Wikimedia o partecipazione a un'organizzazione affine al movimento Wikimedia). | Da quando sono diventato un wikimediano, sono orgoglioso del mio comportamento, dei miei ruoli di leadership e dei miei contributi volontari a diversi progetti.
Sono un membro del team principale e ho ricoperto il ruolo di responsabile delle comunicazioni, della sensibilizzazione e delle campagne per il [1]Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. Attualmente sono il co-responsabile della Dagaare Wikimedia community e ho aiutato la Wikipedia in Dagaare a uscire dall'incubatore in meno di un anno, nel 2023. Creative Commons: Nel 2022 ho co-diretto il Traditional Knowledge and Copyright Intersections Working Group (WG) per comprendere meglio le questioni importanti del rapporto tra conoscenze tradizionali, gruppi e risorse e le licenze CC, i principi CC e il copyright. Sono stato anche membro del Working Group, Digital Community Heritage, Open Access e ho partecipato e contribuito ai risultati della ricerca del gruppo e all'analisi di casi di iniziative internazionali di digital community heritage. Il mio impegno nella comunità CC mi ha permesso di diventare uno dei vincitori del finanziamento per le attività CC di quest'anno. Mi sono offerto come consulente del MCDC e ambasciatore della Carta del Movimento. Mi sono offerto volontario come membro del comitato di pianificazione della conferenza LD4 2023 e del sottocomitato Outreach. Quest'anno sono co-presidente della conferenza 2024, che si terrà più avanti nel corso dell'anno. Sono stato l'organizzatore principale e responsabile del progetto Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 in Ghana e coordinatore di Wiki Loves Folklore e Feminism e Folklore 2023 e 2024. Sono organizzatore regolare della campagna Art+Femism e amministratore della mailing list per la comunità Art+Feminism. Sono un Tech Ambassador di Wikimedia e uno dei presentatori della sessione di WikiIndaba 2021 sulla lessicografia. | |
| Dal tuo punto di vista, quali dovrebbero essere le priorità della Wikimedia Foundation nei prossimi 5-10 anni e perché le consideri importanti? | La Foundation dovrebbe impegnarsi per garantire l'equità nel processo decisionale nelle attività del movimento, che è una delle iniziative della Carta del Movimento, e investire di più nel sostegno agli indigeni e ai gruppi sotto-rappresentati. Le minoranze/indigeni e i gruppi dovrebbero essere coinvolti nei processi decisionali per sentirsi parte dei processi e per garantire che nessuno venga lasciato indietro e che la missione della Foundation di rendere la conoscenza liberamente accessibile a tutti diventi una realtà. | |
| 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? | ||
| Verifica | Verifiche eseguite dalla commissione elettorale o dallo staff di Wikimedia Foundation. | |
Ammissibilità:  VerificatoVerificato da: KTC (talk) 20:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
Identificazione: Verificato Verificato da: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 04:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC) | |