Shuttleworth Foundation
| Founded | 2001[1] |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Mark Shuttleworth |
| Headquarters | |
| Key people |
Mark Shuttleworth, founder Helen Turvey, CEO |
| Area served | Global |
| Focus(es) | Open source, open content, open educational resources |
| Method(s) | Fellowships |
| Website | www.shuttleworthfoundation.org |
The Shuttleworth Foundation was established in January 2001 by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth as an experiment with the purpose of providing funding for people engaged in social change.[2] While there have been various iterations of the foundation, its structure and how it invests in social innovation, the current model employs a fellowship model where fellows are given funding commensurate with their experience to match a year's salary, allowing them to spend that year developing a particular idea.
Notable past and present fellows include Marcin Jakubowski (who develops the Open Source Ecology project), Rufus Pollock (co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation[3]), Mark Surman (now CEO of Mozilla Foundation[4]), and Philipp Schmidt (founded the Peer to Peer University during his fellowship).
Funding model
The Foundation provides funding for people who have an unproven idea in the form of a 'salary', travel and office expenses. For every dollar invested by the Fellow in a project, the Foundation will put in ten or more, allowing the Fellow to own all Intellectual Property and processes once the active fellowship has ceased.
Fellows
| Name | Focus | Year | Notable projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Surman | Open Philanthropy | 2007–2008 | |
| Andrew Rens | Intellectual property rights | 2007–2010 | ACA2K |
| Stephen Song | Telecommunications | 2008–2011 | Village telco |
| Steve Vosloo | 21st Century Learning | 2008–2011 | m4Lit, Yoza |
| Mark Horner | Open and Collaborative Resources K-12 | 2008–2012 | Siyavula, Full Marks, Open Press, FHSST |
| Philipp Schmidt | Open and Collaborative Resources: Higher Education | 2009 - 2012 | P2PU |
| François Grey | Open Science | 2010–2012 | Citizen Cyberscience |
| Rufus Pollock | Open Science: Open Data | 2010– | OKFN |
| Gavin Weale | Sustainable user-created publishing | 2011– | Live magazine |
| Kabir Bavikatte | Property Rights (Intellectual and Material) | 2011–2012 | |
| Kathi Fletcher | Open and Collaborative Resources | 2011– | |
| Jaisen Mathai | Open Media Platform | 2012– | Trovebox |
| Marcin Jakubowski | Open Source Ecology | 2012– | the Global Village Construction Set |
| Dan Whaley | Annotation for the web | 2013– | |
| David Wiley | Open educational resources | 2013– | |
| Jonas Öberg homepage | License and attribution metadata | 2013– | Commons Machinery |
Other projects
- Freedom Toaster
- http://plexusproject.org/ Strong encryption for Twitter
- tuXlabs
- Kusasa
References
- ↑ http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/about-us/
- ↑ Retrieved 2012-12-13
- ↑ Retrieved 2012-12-13
- ↑ Retrieved 2012-12-13