Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
Welcome Hisham It is great to have you on board. Mani Mani Pande, PhD Global Development Research The Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: manipande Skype: manipande On 2/15/11 10:36 AM, Hisham Mundol wrote: Dear All Thank you for the welcome. I'm tremendously motivated by this assignment. Wikimedia's mission is both noble and inspiring. I can't imagine a more exciting time and place to be in. There's been a huge amount that's already been achieved in India by the community - and I am eager to learn from the community how this was done. I also know that there's incredible opportunity to make even more rapid strides, and I look forward to working with the community for this. Warm Regards, hisham On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org mailto:bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists within India) I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India. As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am very happy we’ve now reached this point. As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year: * Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects * Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects * Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for effective partnerships As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the community. Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of India (in a partnership with the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation). He designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change very personal behaviours. While
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
Hi Hisham, A warm welcome and best wishes. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia Chapter, India On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists within India) I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India. As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am very happy we’ve now reached this point. As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year: - Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects - Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects - Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for effective partnerships As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the community. Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of India (in a partnership with the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation). He designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses: Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in particular to work with a team
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
Hisham , Welcome to the world of Wikimedia / Wikipedia ! Looking forward to closely working with you. Best wishes ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Hisham, A warm welcome and best wishes. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia Chapter, India On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists within India) I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India. As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am very happy we’ve now reached this point. As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year: - Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects - Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects - Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for effective partnerships As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the community. Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of India (in a partnership with the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation). He designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in marketing and
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
A very warm welcome to the movement, Hisham. :-) I really enjoyed our first conversations and am looking forward to doing what I can to help you succeed. The India community is amazing and I think you will greatly enjoy the passion, energy and intellect that are there. I can't wait to see how much more we can collectively accomplish. All the best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
Welcome to the Wikiverse, Hisham. Hope that your participation will help advance the movement goals in India. Wish you all the best. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org To: India list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: hisham hisham.mun...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 10:40:13 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists within India) I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India. As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am very happy we’ve now reached this point. As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year: * Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects * Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects * Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for effective partnerships As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly
