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Heather Ford

Heather Ford is a writer, researcher and thinker of internet technologies. Her key work has been for Creative Commons as co-founder of Creative Commons South Africa and Wikipedia in her book about how Wikipedians wrote the story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution (“Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age” MIT Press). She is the co-founder of a number of digital activist and community groups including Creative Commons South Africa, ethnographymatters.net, InfoCamp and OxDEG (the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group) and she has worked as a Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, as a Google Policy Fellow, a Fellow for the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK and a University Academic Fellow in Digital Methods at Leeds University.