Bon dia/Dear Esra'a
I consider myself quite critical regarding some kinds of conflicts of interest within the
Wikimedia movement, and I don't think this is at all a case of COI. I congratulate you
for your involvement and volunteering advocacy in different free knowledge and internet
organizations.
The most important thing in all those cases is always communicating it publicly as soon as
possible, as you did in your case. I see much more possible incompatibilities in people
that occupy governing positions in more than one Wikimedia chapter/user group, rather than
in your case.
Salutacions/Kind regards,
Xavier Dengra
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On dimecres, 25 de gener 2023 a les 08:20, Dariusz Jemielniak
<darekj(a)kozminski.edu.pl> wrote:
Dear Esra'a,
let me be the first one to write that I think it is awesome, a great win for Tor and for
us. I hope we'll be able to work together more efficiently toward the free, uncensored
access to knowledge.
best,
Dariusz
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 8:30 PM Esra'a Al Shafei <ealshafei(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Dear all,
As a current Wikimedia Foundation Board member, I wanted to reach out and announce that I
have agreed to join the Board of the Tor Project.
The Foundation Board and relevant staff members have been made aware and given an
opportunity to raise any possible concerns, in line with our conflict of interest
policies. Since there were no issues raised, my Board membership with Tor began December
15 and was made public today.
Tor’s privacy technologies have been critical resources for my human rights advocacy
work. It felt fitting to have this opportunity to support an organization and community
that made my work and the work of many other activists possible, especially those who live
in countries where censorship and surveillance are the norm.
In the rare event that any Board decision from Tor or Wikimedia Foundation may impact
either organization, I will be fully recusing myself from them. Like the Foundation Board,
this position is voluntary and unpaid.
Here is the announcement from Tor:
https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-new-board-members/
Regards,
Esra’a
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Esra'a Al Shafei (She/Her)
Board of Trustees
[Wikimedia
Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/)
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prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik
katedry[MINDS](https://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/), Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
członek korespondent [Polskiej Akademii Nauk](https://pan.pl/)
faculty associate[Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and
Society](https://cyber.harvard.edu/), Harvard University
Ważniejsze książki: [Collaborative
Society](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collaborative-society)(2020, MIT Press, z A.
Przegalińską), [Thick Big
Data](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thick-big-data-9780198839705?…2020,
Oxford University Press), [Common
Knowledge?](https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24010)(2014, Stanford University Press)
W niedawnych badaniach wykryłem [dezinformację nt.
#AstraZeneca](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350621003462?via%3Dihub),
analizowałem [międzynarodowe sieci medialne dot. rozmów
klimatycznych](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221081…,
pokazałem, że [prawo Godwina nie
działa](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448211062070), że [open source
umiera powolną
śmiercią,](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pon… że
najlepsze artykuły na Wikipedii tworzy [wikiprojekt o
cyklonach](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094721000…, że
naukowczynie raczej [nie publikowały mniej w
lockdownach](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0165551521106816…, że
[bibliografie na Wikipedii korespondują z rankingami
czasopism](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0894439321993836), czy że
[prawnicy z Harvardu akceptują
piractwo.](https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asi.2459…