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Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: "Education" <[email protected]>Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:04:59 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Education Digest, Vol 65, Issue 9 Send Education mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Education digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: WMF welcomes Nichole Saad as new Education Program Manager (Sailesh Patnaik) 2. "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia and political neutrality (Pine W) 3. Re: WMF welcomes Nichole Saad as new Education Program Manager (Àlex Hinojo) 4. CyberSec2017 Call for Papers and Special Session (Jackie Blanco) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 06:21:35 +0530 From: Sailesh Patnaik <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Education <[email protected]> Cc: Nichole Saad <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] WMF welcomes Nichole Saad as new Education Program Manager Message-ID: <CAPkdmFH0ousfaAXr=vwo6+vlyolm8nny8uugsa4zwzj2p2q...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Welcome Nichole :) On Wednesday 26 October 2016, Tighe Flanagan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm excited to announce the newest addition to the education team here at > the Foundation, Nichole Saad. Nichole started last week, and going forward > will be the team's main point of contact for the Asia region as well as > managing our team's communications work. > > Here's a snippet about Nichole > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)> in her own words: > > Hello! I'm excited to meet you all! As an educator, I'm thrilled to be >> part of the Wikimedia Foundation, whose work has contributed to improving >> access to knowledge worldwide. My own work is fueled by the theory that >> improving the access to and quality of education globally is the key to a >> more prosperous and peaceful world, and I'm eager to begin work as the new >> Program Manager on the Education Team! >> >> Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I worked as an education >> professional in seven countries in diverse roles. Most recently I was based >> in Jordan as an Associate Project Officer with UNESCO, working on the >> educational response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Throughout these >> experiences I’ve been very interested in how innovative technological >> solutions can be used to provide quality education to the most >> marginalized, and can’t wait to explore this further here! > > > Please join me in welcoming Nichole to the foundation. Feel free to reach > out here, directly over email ([email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>) or on her talk page > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NSaad_(WMF)>. > > Tighe > > -- > Tighe Flanagan > Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > education.wikimedia.org > -- ----------- *Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ*" Programme Associate, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society Phone: +91-7537097770 *LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 *Twitter* : @saileshpat "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/attachments/20161027/1c33b92b/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:31:59 -0700 From: Pine W <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]>, Wikimedia Education <[email protected]>, Wiki Research-l <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] "Can Wikipedia save the internet?": Wikipedia and political neutrality Message-ID: <CAF=dyjhqa-xm0dkfkbwoovqfxuf-1ykndgx_o-xt0_4hp4p...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello colleagues, Some of you might be interested in this news article: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/can-wikipedia-save-the-internet-a7380786.html When we know that we have countless shortcomings in Wikimedia, I found it refreshing to hear that some aspects of our content and community are performing well and, on the whole, are serving the public interest. Regards, Pine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/attachments/20161026/067cde59/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:24:18 +0200 From: Àlex Hinojo <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Education <[email protected]> Cc: Nichole Saad <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] WMF welcomes Nichole Saad as new Education Program Manager Message-ID: <CADSU5B9h5arhDQcmsTGDxu5=kd5tvc+nb_07bpsmmtz_dgk...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Welcome Nichole! 2016-10-27 2:51 GMT+02:00 Sailesh Patnaik <[email protected]>: > Welcome Nichole :) > > > On Wednesday 26 October 2016, Tighe Flanagan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I'm excited to announce the newest addition to the education team here at >> the Foundation, Nichole Saad. Nichole started last week, and going forward >> will be the team's main point of contact for the Asia region as well as >> managing our team's communications work. >> >> Here's a snippet about Nichole >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)> in her own words: >> >> Hello! I'm excited to meet you all! As an educator, I'm thrilled to be >>> part of the Wikimedia Foundation, whose work has contributed to improving >>> access to knowledge worldwide. My own work is fueled by the theory that >>> improving the access to and quality of education globally is the key to a >>> more prosperous and peaceful world, and I'm eager to begin work as the new >>> Program Manager on the Education Team! >>> >>> Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I worked as an education >>> professional in seven countries in diverse roles. Most recently I was based >>> in Jordan as an Associate Project Officer with UNESCO, working on the >>> educational response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Throughout these >>> experiences I’ve been very interested in how innovative technological >>> solutions can be used to provide quality education to the most >>> marginalized, and can’t wait to explore this further here! >> >> >> Please join me in welcoming Nichole to the foundation. Feel free to reach >> out here, directly over email ([email protected]) or on her talk page >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NSaad_(WMF)>. >> >> Tighe >> >> -- >> Tighe Flanagan >> Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program >> Wikimedia Foundation >> [email protected] >> education.wikimedia.org >> > > > -- > ----------- > *Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ*" > Programme Associate, Access To Knowledge > Centre for Internet and Society > Phone: +91-7537097770 > *LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 > *Twitter* : @saileshpat > > "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality" > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > -- -- Àlex Hinojo / Kippelboy Programme Manager / Director de projectes Amical Wikimedia www.wikimedia.cat @kippelboy / @Kippelboy_cat / @AmicalWikimedia ------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/attachments/20161027/76a6a46b/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:59:51 -0600 From: Jackie Blanco <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Wikimedia Education] CyberSec2017 Call for Papers and Special Session Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed You are invited to contribute, participate and/or submit your research paper. The Fifth International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Welfare and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2017) St. Mary's University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia April 22-24, 2017 http://sdiwc.net/conferences/6th-international-cyber-security-cyber-welfare-digital-forensic/ Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 2017 ========================== Call for Special Session ========================== The conference also welcomes researchers to organize special session in any one of the tracks in cyber security and digital forensic with regards to the conference topic. Mechanics: Special Sessions may address one or more tracks, but they should be organized under a unified theme. Each special session should attract 6 registered papers. These papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings, and they will be published in the proceedings of the conference and will be sent to at least 10 indexing places. Submission: Send your session title and summary as detailed in the conference website. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education ------------------------------ End of Education Digest, Vol 65, Issue 9 **************************************** _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
