Hi folks, sharing this announcement we sent out as a press release this morning. We'll be sending out another announcement shortly to our press list about the public policy project, which Frank discussed on our announcement list a few days ago.
Best, jay walsh Begin forwarded message: > From: Jay Walsh <[email protected]> > Date: May 11, 2010 12:22:57 PM PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Jing Wang > and Mimi Ito to its Advisory Board > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Jing Wang and Mimi Ito to its Advisory Board > SAN FRANCISCO May 11, 2010 -- The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit > organization that operates Wikipedia, today announced the appointment of two > new members to its Advisory Board, Mimi Ito and Jing Wang. Mimi Ito is a > cultural anthropologist with a focus on new media use among young people. > Jing Wang is an author and professor of Chinese cultural studies at the > Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the chair of the International > Advisory Board of Creative Commons China Mainland. > Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist examining children and youth’s changing > relationships to media and communications. She is an Associate Researcher > with the University of California Humanities Research Institute with > appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of > Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research in Japan > focuses on use of mobile technologies, and she has recently completed a > multi-year project on digital kids and informal learning. She has authored > and edited three books on kids' use of technology, and most recently, she has > led a three-year collaborative ethnographic study, funded by the MacArthur > Foundation, examining youth new media practices in the US, focused on gaming, > digital media production, and Internet use. She has worked at the University > of Southern California's Annenberg Center, the Institute for Research on > Learning, Xerox PARC, and Apple Computer. She has a PhD in Education and a > PhD in Anthropology, both from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. > "Although we're seeing more and more examples of crowdsourced, > non-commercial, and community produced media on the Internet today, Wikipedia > continues to set the gold standard," said Mimi Ito. "At a time when so many > of our past models of knowledge making and circulation are being challenged, > Wikipedia provides proof of a sustainable and robust form of public media in > the digital age. I'm delighted to be part of Wikimedia and the movement that > it represents." > Jing Wang is an author and editor of seven books, Professor of Chinese > Cultural Studies at MIT and founder and organizer of MIT’s New Media Action > Lab. She is also an affiliated faculty with MIT's Comparative Media Studies. > In spring 2009, Professor Wang launched an NGO 2.0 project in collaboration > with two Chinese universities, three Chinese NGOs, and three corporate > partners including Ogilvy & Mather China and Frog Design. The project, funded > by Ford Foundation in Beijing, is designed to enhance the digital literacy of > grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China and will deliver an > interactive platform complete with Web 2.0 training courses and a Chinese > field guide to best practices and software of social media for nonprofits. > Professor Wang started working with Creative Commmons in 2006 and serves as > the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons Mainland > China. She also worked as the co-organizer of the Policy Culture Research > Project with Anthony Saich at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard > University. > "I'm excited to join Wikimedia's Advisory Board," said Jing Wang. "The > challenge of increasing the diversity of participation in regions such China > can be difficult to navigate. The Foundation has radically impacted access to > free knowledge for everyone in the world. I'm thrilled to volunteer my time > to help create richer, higher-quality information resources by increasing the > diversity of voices that contribute to the projects." > "I am thrilled to welcome both Jing and Mimi to the Wikimedia Foundation > Advisory Board," said Michael Snow, Chair of the Board of Trustees. "Both > Mimi and Jing are respected academics who will bring new expertise to us in > their respective areas, and I look forward to them making a substantial > contribution." > The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the volunteer-written encyclopedia > with a staff of just over 30 people, created its Advisory Board in January > 2007 as a mechanism for input from leaders and thinkers in fields such as > education, technology, and free culture. Advisory Board members convene with > Wikimedia's leadership once a year at the annual Wikimania conference, and > also support the organization in their specific areas of expertise. > > The current Advisory Board membership includes: > Angela Beesley Starling (Co-founder, Wikia) > Ward Cunningham (Developer of the first wiki) > Melissa Hagemann (Open access and open education advocate, Open Society > Institute/Soros foundations) > Mimi Ito (Cultural Anthropologist at University of California, Irvine) > Mitch Kapor (Founder/Co-founder Lotus Development, EFF, Mozilla Foundation) > Neeru Khosla (Co-founder, CK-12) > Teemu Leinonen (Professor, Media Lab, Aalto University) > Rebecca MacKinnon (Journalist; founder, Global Voices Online) > Wayne Mackintosh (Education specialist, Commonwealth of Learning) > Benjamin Mako Hill (Author, free software advocate) > Domas Mituzas Former Executive Secretary, Wikimedia Foundation Board of > Trustees; Database Engineer, Facebook) > Roger McNamee (Venture capital, musician) > Trevor Neilson (Partner, Global Philanthropy Group) > Craig Newmark (Founder, Craigslist.org) > Florence Nibart-Devouard (Former Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of > Trustees; Consultant in Collaborative Media) > Achal Prabhala (Researcher and writer) > Clay Shirky (Associate Teacher, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU) > Jing Wang (Professor, MIT; Founder MIT New Media Action Lab) > Ethan Zuckerman (Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at > Harvard Law School) > > About the Wikimedia Foundation > http://wikimediafoundation.org > http://blog.wikimedia.org > The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates > Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, > Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive > more than 370 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most > popular web property worldwide (March 2010). Available in more than 270 > languages, Wikipedia contains more than 15 million articles contributed by a > global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San > Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) > charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia > Foundation and its projects. 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