Hi everyone, Earlier today Wikimedia Israel held its General Assembly. The Assembly elected 3 new board members and one member for the audit committee.
In July 2013, the General Assembly authorized the board to extend the board with two board members from outside the community. These two members aimed to strengthen the board’s professional capabilities, bringing a new and fresh take on processes and activities, and contributing from their extensive connections and experience. I’m proud to introduce our new board members and audit committee: Prof. Karine Nahon <http://ekarine.org/about/>: an associate professor at the Information School (University of Washington), faculty adjunct at the department of Communication, affiliated faculty at the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement and former director of the Center for Information & Society in University of Washington. Currently, she co-chairs the Digital and Social Media track at HICSS. She as an expert in decision-making forums (nationally and internationally) and is publicly active on topics of open government. She acts as a member of the Israeli CIO (Chief Information Officer) Cabinet, member of the board of the Freedom of Information Movement, and board of the Workshop for Open Knowledge. She represents Israel in the UN in the committee for science and technology. Prof. [[Sheizaf Rafaeli <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheizaf_Rafaeli>]] is Professor and Dean at the School of Management (Graduate School of Business Administration) Haifa GSB, University of Haifa Israel and additionally Founder and Director of the Sagy Center for Internet Research and the Games for Managers Project. He has been writing in the popular press for the Globes and Calcalist financial and business newspapers, and for YNet, a leading news portal, where he has published hundreds of weekly columns. Over the past twenty five years he has taught courses on computers as media, and the social implications of new communication technologies, as well as numerous Information Systems' courses. Wikimania 2011 attendees were perhaps remembering him as the host of the opening event :). Shani Evenstein decided shorten her term as a board member, and the GA appointed Ido Ivri, who was a member of the audit committee, to replace her in the board till the next board election. Shani joined Wikimedia Israel after Wikimania 2011 in Haifa. She is a live proof of the contribution of Wikimania to a local chapter. She immediately began to develop the GLAM awareness in Israel, and successful created the connections and lead all of WMIL's GLAM collaborations, among them our successful cooperation with the Israeli Museum and the National Library. Her dedications to the movement and to the chapter were not limited to the GLAM projects and her touch was in many of Wikimedia Israel activities over the last few years. The Assembly and the board are thanking her for her dedication, energy, thoughts, ideas and her special contribution to WMIL. Ido Ivri, who will replace her on the board, is the Manager of Business Development and Innovation at the National Library of Israel, in the office of the Library's Executive Director. Ido is an open source/open content enthusiast, and has been a volunteer in Wikimedia-IL since 2011. He holds a B.Sc in computer science from the Hebrew University, and currently studying for an MBA in the Recanati Executive program in Tel Aviv University. Also, the Assembly decided to accept the board recommendation and to select external member of the community, Adi Zamir, as a member of the Audit committee - a step that will increase the ability of the committee to monitor and make external and independent review of the organization activities, as part of the professionalism steps of Wikimedia Israel. Adi Zamir has education and experience in various fields. She is a Senior Project manager, Training and organizational consultant for CEO's and lecturer at the academic college of Tel aviv–Yafo. Adi's brings to the audit committee her varied experience. We please that Prof. Rafaeli, Prof. Nahon and Ms Zamir agreed to join our community and support our vision. We have no doubt they will be a major force in the organizational development of WMIL and a great contribution to the movement in general. Regards, Itzik Edri Chairperson _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>