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Van Yvonne Sterken (redactie) | 24-08-2011 | Article Rating | (0) reacties

2nd Leonardo – European Corporate Learning Award

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales follows Jacques Delors to become the second winner of the Leonardo Award

An invaluable collection of knowledge on the internet which is both easy to access and to which everyone can contribute – ten years ago sceptics mocked the whole idea of the Wikipedia project. But the online encyclopedia has proved its critics wrong: hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped make Wikipedia the largest repository of knowledge known to man and revolutionised knowledge creation within society generally as well as in the education and business worlds. It is for this achievement that Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales is now to be awarded the Leonardo – European Corporate Learning Award.

The idea behind the Leonardo award, according to its founders, is to recognise educational initiatives which use a value-based, holistic approach to reflect the dynamic nature and culture of knowledge and inspire companies across Europe to alter their learning processes accordingly.
Asked about the international advisory board‘s final choice of winner, its secretary Günther Szogs, who is also a founding member of the “New Club of Paris“, explains: “In terms of launching this approach into the digital age, Jimmy Wales is the ideal choice given his personal commitment to the idea of Wikipedia and the contribution made by volunteers across the globe.”

Szogs goes on to describe how Wales has inspired many people to actively contribute their knowledge and creativity to the creation of the encyclopedia in their country and how the success of this venture has now led to the emergence within businesses of many projects which adopt a similar approach. “Trying to keep up with the huge explosion of knowledge in Wikipedia is an ongoing challenge for the business world”, Szogs continues. “Companies not only owe a debt of respect to the online encyclopedia and the work of its volunteers but now also promote the Wiki ethos within their own organisations”.

Following last year’s winner Professor Jacques Delors, for many years President of the European Commission and Chairman of the International UNESCO Commission on Education, Jimmy Wales is the second person to receive the Leonardo – European Corporate Learning Award.

Bringing the wisdom of crowds to centre-stage
Echoing the approach used in producing the online encyclopedia itself, Jimmy Wales feels that the spotlight cast by this award should not just centre on him, but rather on the many others involved in making Wikipedia a success. That is why, on  Wednesday 21st September 2011, there will be three Wikipedia education representatives from different European nations stepping up together to receive the Leonardo award at the HRM Expo in Cologne: Nando Stöcklin (Switzerland), Ziko van Dijk (Netherlands) and Denis Barthel (Germany). Presenting the award will be the President of the “New Club of Paris”, and holder of the award “Brain of the Year“, Professor Leif Edvinsson of Lund University in Sweden.

Nando Stöcklin, a researcher at Bern University’s Centre for IT in Education, and his Swiss colleagues have been looking since 2006 at how Wikipedia can be used for educational purposes. In his book “How to make clever use of Wikipedia in school and at work”, he focuses on the pitfalls of Wikipedia; given that the project is particularly vulnerable to manipulation and clever PR, Stöcklin wants to improve users’ information literacy skills so that they are better able to judge the quality of the articles contributed. Stöcklin's information courses about Wikipedia range from 30-minute lecture contributions to longer presentations and whole-day courses.

The president of Wikimedia Netherlands, Dr. Ziko van Dijk, has been involved with Wikipedia since 2003: a German living in the Netherlands, he writes mainly articles about German and Dutch history and these appear in four languages (German, Esperanto, Dutch and English). He has a particular interest in making it easier for people to become involved with Wikipedia, hence the publication in 2010 of his book “Wikipedia – how you can contribute to the free encyclopedia", in which he describes the background to the project. Wikipedian van Dijk is also researching the multilingual nature of the online encyclopedia and exploring the reasons why some countries’ portals are more successful than others.

Denis Barthel, Wikipedia’s education representative for Germany, has been writing for Wikipedia for many years and has worked as a project manager for Wikimedia Germany since 2007. Part of his remit is to develop the infrastructure of  departmental meetings and literary scholarships and promote closer collaboration with scientists as authors. Together with other Wikipedians he developed the idea of the Wikimedia Germany’s schools project and he and his team of volunteer speakers go into schools to hold workshops and give presentations on the subject.

Further information such as speeches and position papers on the Leonardo
award are available at www.leonardo-award.eu .


About the Leonardo - Corporate European Learning Award
In order to make the European economy more efficient and responsible, an initiative group involved in the HRM Expo has established an award that distinguishes ideas that have a pan-European effect and provide new approaches to corporate learning. With the “Leonardo - Corporate European Learning Award”, people are honoured who have initiated and put into practice “beacon projects” for European education and have thus become benchmarks for other participants throughout Europe. The award winners receive their awards annually at the HRM Expo in autumn.

About the HRM Expo
The HRM Expo, Europe’s largest exhibition on all HR matters in companies,
will take place for the 12th time from September 20th to 22nd, 2011. 11,837 HR managers from Germany and abroad informed themselves about strategies and solutions for HR management in Cologne in 2010. The exhibition is especially well known for its comprehensive programme of lectures on current trends. The  spectrum of topics ranges from recruiting and retention to issues such as leadership, professional learning, employment law and software, as well as the general future of the working world.


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