Heather Ford

Short Biography

Heather Ford (born 6 January 1978) is a South African researcher, blogger, journalist, social entrepreneur and open source activist who has worked in the field of Internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the founder of Creative Commons South Africa. She worked as a digital ethnographer at Ushahidi until October 2012 when she began studying for her DPhil at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.