10, 2014, Wales received the UK Tech4Good Awards "Special Award" for establishing Wikipedia. He was one of eight winners in various categories meant to honor organizations and individuals who use digital technology to improve the lives of others. In December 2014, Wales shared the inaugural $1million Mohammed bin Rashid Knowledge Award with World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In January 2015, Maastricht University awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa to Wales. On April 25, 2015, Wales received the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service along with Jon Bon Jovi and Edward Norton. On May 17, 2015, Wales received the Dan David Prize of $1million in the "Present" category (others won that amount for "Past" and "Future" contributions to society). He was awarded the prize for "launching the world's largest online encyclopedia". In January 2016, Wales, along with Baroness Rebuck, became a non-executive director of the Guardian Media Group. On February 2, 2016, he received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Université Catholique de Louvain. In June 2016, during the opening ceremony on Wikimania 2016, Wales was awarded honorary citizenship of Esino Lario. In September 2017, he was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy "for facilitating the spread of information via his work creating and developing Wikipedia, the world's largest free online encyclopedia". See also List of Wikipedia people References Bibliography Further reading "Wikimania: Meet the Wikipedians. Those "persnickety," techy types who keep your favorite Internet information website brimming with data." 60 Minutes: Morley Safer interviewing Jimmy Wales. First aired on April 5, 2015. Rebroadcast on July 26, 2015. On Being w/Krista Tippett; Jimmy Wales – The Sum of All Human Knowledge (broadcast WAMU American University) September 11, 2016 Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Taking on Facebook and the Dangers Lurking in the Rise of Artificial Intelligence, by Fred Guterl, Newsweek, December 12, 2019. External links , Wales's role in the English Wikipedia as described by its editors You can look it up: The Wikipedia story – excerpt from the 2014 book The Innovators Wikia userpage 1966 births Living people 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople American atheists American bloggers American emigrants to England American technology company founders Ashoka USA Fellows-2010 Auburn University alumni American Wikimedians Berkman Fellows British atheists British technology company founders British Wikimedians Creative Commons-licensed authors Fandom (website) History of Wikipedia Indiana University alumni Intelligent Community Forum Members of the Creative Commons board of directors Naturalised