Email: hfordsa@gmail.com
Heather Ford is an ethnographer who studies how online communities get together to learn, play and deliberate. She currently works for Ushahidi and is studying how online communities work together to verify information collected from social media sources and for the UC Berkeley School of Information as a data science researcher. Heather recently graduated from the UC Berkeley iSchool where she studied the social life of information in schools, educational privacy and Africans’ on Wikipedia. She is a former Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member and the former Executive Director of iCommons – an international organisation started by Creative Commons to connect the open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. She was a co-founder of Creative Commons South Africa and of the South African non-profit, The African Commons Project as well as a community-building initiative called the GeekRetreat – bringing together South Africa’s top web entrepreneurs to talk about how to make the local Internet better. At night she dreams about writing books and finding time to draw.
Events
A list of events that I’ve directed/facilitated/spoken at
Interviews
The good, the bad, the ugly
