Fellows | Shuttleworth Foundation

Arthur Attwell | Paperight: A web-based rights marketplace

Arthur Attwell is a publisher and entrepreneur with a passion for technology, and experience producing commercial and open-licensed content as part of a sustainable business. Arthur is building a web-based rights marketplace called Paperight, a website that turns anyone with any printer and an Internet connection into a print-on-demand bookstore.

Catharina Maracke | Intellectual property rights

Catharina is an intellectual property lawyer specializing in international copyright law and policy, the interaction between law and technologies, and the question of standardization in the open licensing ecosystem.

Dan Whaley | Annotation for the web

After two decades of progress in web infrastructure and technologies, Dan believes the time is finally at hand to realize the widespread annotation of human knowledge. He is the founder of Hypothes.is, a non-profit focused on enabling this vision through the development and deployment of open software and services.

David Wiley | Open educational resources

David wants to push the field over the tipping point and create a world where open educational resources (OER) are used pervasively throughout secondary schools, community colleges, and universities. In his vision of the world, OER supplant traditional textbooks for all high school, associates degree, and undergraduate general education courses.

Esra’a Al Shafei | Tracking voices of protest from around the world

Esra'a Al Shafei is the founder of CrowdVoice.org , an open source platform that tracks voices of protest from around the world by curating and crowdsourcing valuable data. She is a recipient of the Berkman Award from Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society for "outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society".

Gavin Weale | Sustainable user-created publishing

Originally a publisher, Gavin has developed the Live magazine over the course of the last decade, overseeing the transformation of a grassroots magazine into a powerful youth engagement and communications channel for thousands of disadvantaged young people in London, UK. He now wishes to replicate the model in the townships of South Africa.

Jaisen Mathai | Preserving what we capture

Jaisen Mathai is not actually a photographer of any kind. He simply has a lot of photos which are extremely valuable to him. He believes that others do too. Our photos collectively tell others about our life, society and generation. He's working on OpenPhoto to make sure everything we've captured is preserved.

Jonas Öberg | License and attribution metadata

Jonas Öberg is crafting technology that makes digital life easier by leaving some of the hard work to computers. His current work focus on the embedding of license and attribution metadata in digital works, a work which seek to reduce the barriers for re-use and challenge the way we think of attribution.

Kathi Fletcher | Open API for OER platforms

Kathi is focusing on how to foster an ecosystem of innovative tools and services around an education highway (metaphorically) made of open education resources (OER).

Marcin Jakubowski | Open Hardware: The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)

Marcin Jakubowski is passionate about creating the open source economy. He is currently working on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), a modular, open source platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 industrial machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.

Rufus Pollock | Open Science: Open Data

Rufus Pollock is working to promote Open Knowledge around the world, including any kind of content or data from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata, which is freely usable, sharable and reusable.

Andrew Rens | Intellectual Property Rights

Andrew Rens was Intellectual Property Fellow for the Shuttleworth Foundation from 2007 to 2010. He is also Legal Lead for Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and director of The African Commons Project

Francois Grey | Open Science: Citizen Cyberscience

Francois Grey is focusing on Open Science, specifically Citizen Cyberscience, a collective term for a diverse, grass-roots movement that is enabling ordinary citizens to participate in real scientific research thanks to the Web.

Kabir Bavikatte | Property Rights (Intellectual and Material)

Kabir Sanjay Bavikatte is an environmental lawyer supporting communities to secure their rights to their territories and cultures.

Mark Horner | Open and Collaborative Resources: K12

Mark Horner works in the area of Open and Collaborative Resources and believes in the liberation of information and supporting education in South Africa.

Mark Surman | Open Philanthropy

Mark Surman was Open Philanthropy Fellow, providing support and thought leadership on how community, networks and all things ‘open’ can increase the impact of the social innovations

Paul Gardner-Stephen | The Serval Project: Ubiquitous mesh telephony

Paul Gardner-Stephen is making the open-source Serval Project the premier mesh telephony platform, empowering individuals and communities to meet their own telecommunications needs and to maintain telecommunications capacity when infrastructure is unavailable or unaffordable.

Active Fellows