Alumni

Andrew Rens was Intellectual Property Fellow for the Shuttleworth Foundation from 2007 to 2010. To continue working on the legal aspects of everything open after his fellowship he founded opencounsel a specialist legal consultancy, he blogs at ex africa semper aliquid novi. Andrew is currently based at Duke University where he is teaching on access to medicine and is completing a doctoral dissertation on the use of public licences for open educational resources.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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