Sadik Shahadu
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group Researcher
Accra, Ghana
My name is Sadik Shahadu from Ghana. I am a Co-founder of the
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and the
Global Open Initiative. I am currently serving as a
regional ambassador for indigenous communities at Art+Feminism, a steering committee member of the
Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub, and have previously served as a volunteer on the
Wikimedia project grants committee.Outside the Wikimedia community, I was a
Mozilla Open Leader X fellow in 2019, working with students to create open educational resources (OER) in Ghana and currently serving as an ambassador for the Mozilla festival 2021.
Since 2020, I have served as a
MozFest wrangler, working with the Mozilla foundation staff to co-designed the Mozilla festival. In 2017, I was a member of the CC Global Summit 2018 program committee and a Co-lead for the 'future of the Commons' track. I am currently a
program facilitator and
panel chair for the
Hack4OpenGLAM at the 2021 Creative Commons Global Summit. In addition to that, I work with several open leaders and OER experts on the '
Open Education for a Better World' program as
an advisory board member to support participants and also help create scholarship opportunities for students from Africa at the university of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. As a
digital language activist, I work with individuals and organizations who are interested in digitizing the Dagbani language on the internet.