Sadik Shahadu

West African Language Coordinator at Art + Feminism

Sadik is a certified Wikipedia trainer, journalist, and brand ambassador for the Curationist Foundation. He is also the executive director and co-founder of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, a young not-for-profit organization based in Ghana and working to support the 16 Mabia languages on Wikimedia and the internet at large.
He is currently serving as the West African Indigenous Language Coordinator at Art+Feminism and a steering committee member of the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub. Outside Wikimedia, he serves on the advisory board of the UNESCO ‘Open Education for a Better World’ program. He is a Mozilla Open Leader X fellow, a MozFest wrangler mentor, and an ambassador for the Mozilla festival. Sadik is passionate about open-source technology, open data, and open education resources (OER).
As a digital language activist, he works with individuals and organizations interested in digitizing indigenous languages and cultures on the Internet.

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