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Hi.
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My name is Dariusz Jemielniak.
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I'm a Professor of management
and faculty associate
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at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet
and Society at Harvard University.
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I've been a Wikimedian since 2007,
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and I served in the roles of admin,
bureaucrat, checkuser, steward,
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chair of the FDC, and more recently
as a trustee on the board.
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I also wrote a couple of books, articles
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analyzing Wikipedia
and the collaborative society.
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For instance, I recently wrote
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why I think that Wikipedia
is an academic role-playing game.
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As the board is expanding
significantly this year
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and also as no other trustee is running,
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I think it's important that I do:
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for my last term to provide continuity,
to provide organizational memory
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and also to successfully onboard
new trustees as well as our new CEO.
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As new trustees will really need
to get a quick, speedy onboarding.
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Also, I think it is quite important
that trustees, who serve on our board,
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have some actual board experience
from large organizations,
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as it will make it much more difficult
to work around them, play them.
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I have served on the WMF board
for a while,
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but I also have experience
from other boards:
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I'm a vice-chair of a public
traded company, Escola,
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and I've served on a board of the largest
science center in my region,
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Copernicus Science Center,
for nearly a decade.
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It's not easy to intimidate me
and sell me some mumbo jumbo :)
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I also have strategic
consulting experience,
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which is quite important for the job,
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and I developed a couple
of successful free educational websites.
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Now I wanna say it clear:
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I think it is very important
that the board is diverse
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and I have to say loud and clear:
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I'm a privileged person in many respects
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as a white man who spent
some time in the West.
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My modest diversity contribution
is that I grew up in Communist Poland.
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I lived for 20 dollars per month.
I experienced real censorship.
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Actually, I visited a Western country
already as an adult.
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I even stopped thinking
that all Westerners
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are smarter and better than me,
that are better educated than me as well,
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only when I was around 30.
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I believe this experience is super useful
for the board as it allows to understand
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how privilege in a sense of money,
the sense of social access,
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and in terms of a political system,
how it works.
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Also, it makes me read through corporate
PR and propaganda much better,
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which I think is quite useful
when you're serving ;)
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I also actively support human rights,
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having served on the Committee
of the Polish Pride Parade for many years,
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being an advisor to Women's Strike,
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which is a movement opposing the Draconian
reproductive rights suppression in Poland.
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My priority for the board
include a couple of things.
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First, I want to finish the governance
reform and onboarding,
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including finding a right balance
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between the WMF, the affiliates,
and the movement Council.
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I think we really need to have a stronger
structural institutional support system.
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Second, I want to tackle disinformation
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and also new other tech challenges better,
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such as the AR Revolution,
as we really desperately need
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to start looking outwards,
catch up with the world.
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Third,
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I want to solidify the movement governance
and financing, including the Global South.
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And I also want to create
a system of leadership training.
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In my head, I have this dream
of a situation where we have
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a systematic series of workshops,
courses, seminars developed internally
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which help us grow our own leaders.
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I also think that such a system
with time can provide
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a really valuable certification
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also useful for people and volunteers
in their day jobs.
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My movement strategy priorities
include leadership development, as I said,
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especially in less represented regions,
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but also listening to wider audiences,
less heard voices.
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I'm thinking of a system
where we can gather feedback
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from the community in a sensible way,
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allowing the more silent
voices to have influence.
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For instance, by allowing
aggregation of ideas,
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mini polling, up-voting/down-voting,
which are very commonly used elsewhere:
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the technology is already there!
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I also want to focus on improving
governance and collaboration
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between the Foundation, the affiliates,
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and making a much clearer division
of responsibilities.
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I think the growth of organizations
in our movement
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should be more or less proportional,
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but also, it should not be
the growth for the growth itself.
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It shouldn't be rapid unless there are
extraordinary circumstances
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requiring scaling up fast.
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So if you agree with these ideas
and principles,
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please do vote for me.
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In any case, definitely do vote
for someone as it is just important.
