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Jimmy Wales introduces the Jimmy Wales Foundation at Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City.

The Jimmy Wales Foundation is a non-profit organization started by Jimmy Wales to promote internet freedom. The organization was established with prize money from the “Knowledge Award”, which was presented to Jimmy and Tim Berners-Lee at the first Knowledge Conference in Dubai.

The organization talks about individual human rights cases of real people who were persecuted. One of the people featured is Bassel Khartabil, formerly from Creative Commons Syria. Bassel was imprisoned in Syria in 2012, and disappeared completely a few years later. Bassel Khartabil has been killed in 2015. Another featured case is Roya Saberinejad, who went to visit her family in Iran, and never returned.

Goals

The purpose of the Jimmy Wales Foundation is to stop government censorship and promote freedom of expression on the internet.

The goals of the Jimmy Wales Foundation are to:

  1. Research the problem of freedom of expression and provide public information about the international problem
  2. Put political pressure on governments that control freedom of speech
  3. Use technology to promote free speech in countries with restrictive governments
  4. Pressure governments to make laws that promote freedom of expression
  5. Help individual people who are in trouble with repressive governments that restrict free speech

Images for kids

  • Bomis-staff-summer-2000

    The staff of Wales' Internet company Bomis photographed in summer 2000. Wales is third from the left in the back row, with Christine Rohan.

  • Nupedia logo

    Nupedia's logo

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    Wales appearing as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees at Wikimania 2007

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    Wales at the Creative Commons Board Meeting in June 2008

  • 2014-03-14 CeBIT Global Conferences, Jimmy Wales, Founder Wikipedia, (26) On stage showing the world for Wikipedia Zero (500 millions), while Brent Goff is still listening

    Jimmy Wales 2014 on CeBIT Global Conferences, Wikipedia Zero

  • Jimbo at Bengali Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebration gala event, Dhaka (03)

    Wales at the tenth anniversary celebration of the Bengali Wikipedia

  • Christine and Jimmy Wales

    Wales with his second wife, Christine Rohan

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    Wales at the 2011 Gottlieb Duttweiler Awards Show

  • Jimmy Wales Accepting the Dan David Price

    Jimmy Wales accepting the Dan David Prize at the Tel Aviv University, 2015

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