Founded | 2001[1] |
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Founder | Mark Shuttleworth |
Focus | Open source, open content, open educational resources |
Location | |
Area served | Global |
Method | Fellowships |
Key people | Mark Shuttleworth, founder Helen Turvey, CEO |
Website | www |
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.[1] 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[2]) and Mark Surman (now Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation.[3])
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.
Projects
- Freedom Toaster
- Kusasa
- SchoolTool, student information system
- Serval Project, for smart phone ad hoc networks
- strong encryption for Twitter
- tuXlabs
- FarmBot
References
- ^ a b "The Shuttleworth Foundation Home". www.shuttleworthfoundation.org.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Retrieved 2012-12-13 - ^ "Mark Surman". www.shuttleworthfoundation.org. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
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