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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Philipp Schmidt | Open and Collaborative Resources: Higher Education

Philipp Schmidt focuses on the future of higher education. He is co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University, using open educational resources to create communities for self learners.

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.

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

Steve Song | Telecommunications and Connectedness

Steve Song works in the area of telecommunications. He provides thought leadership on access to communications infrastructure and its impact on innovation and growth.

Steve Vosloo | 21st Century Learning

Steve Vosloo is 21st Century Learning Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. He believes mobile phones, games and digital media are the future of Africa's education.

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