I heard a great quote the other month, a rif on some older quote: "There is no free knowledge on a dead planet."
Besides that, there is plenty of core activities whose stories can be told in the framework of the SDGs, because there is by nature a lot of alignment between them. And when they are, they will be even more powerful, getting more people onboard and further our mission beyond current plans. So it is a false dichotomy putting the core mission against the SDGs when they probably will be synergistic instead.
Jan Ainali
Den tors 19 sep. 2019 kl 20:36 skrev Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com:
Ad,
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 20:27, Ad Huikeshoven ad@huikeshoven.org wrote:
tl;dr Wikipedia can engage millions, billions of people to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
That's nice, but the mission of the Foundation is to help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge, and people who have donated to the Fundation have done so to further that mission, not some other mission, however worthy. If members of the Community wish to support the SDG, there are plenty of ways in which they can do so. Diverting resources from the mission of the Foundation weakens its core mission and, I'll be blunt, is a fraud on the donors.
Henry
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