As mentioned earlier today when I published the announcement that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder, winning A Nokia Foundation Award, here is the Nokia Conversations Interview with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia. Its a great read, and insight to Jimmy’s creation, which many of us are very familiar with on the Internet.
Less than a week after delivering a keynote address at The Symbian Exchange & Exposition in London, the founder of Wikipedia and internet visionary Jimmy Wales landed in Helsinki Finland to receive the 2009 Nokia Foundation Award – and it couldn’t have been given to a nicer person.
The online legend, who’s no stranger to journalists and cameras, was electrified and appreciative when we sat down together for a few minutes in Nokia’s Vision Vault near downtown Helsinki.
Breaking the typical mold of a Nokia Foundation award winner, Jimmy Wales is only the third non-Finn to ever pick up the gong. Joining the prestigious ranks of previous winners such as Linux pioneer, Linus Torvalds, and former MySQL CEO, Mårten Mickos, Jimmy says he is “humbled” by the honor but considers himself “a carpenter and not architect”. The Nokia Foundation award joins others including accolades from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Forbes, The Economist, and the World Economic Forum.
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