George Oates

Quick Facts

Full Name	George Oates
Occupation	Designer
Date Of Birth	Jan 10, 1973(1973-01-10)
Age	51
Birthplace	Adelaide
Country	Australia
Birth City	South Australia
Horoscope	Capricorn

George Oates Biography

George Oates is one of the most popular and richest Designer who was born on January 10, 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. George Oates (birth name Georgina Oates born in 1973) is an australian-born designer and entrepreneur. most well-known as the founder of the photo-sharing site Flickr and also for the creation of Flickr Commons. Flickr Commons program. Since 2007, she has worked in the field of cultural heritage and is considered “increasingly a go-to expert on digital archives”. She also has written the book “If Only The Grimms Had Known Alice” that is an adaptation of Grimm brothers fairy tales, which includes female characters.

In the year 2011, Oates was appointed a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Libraries. Oates is also an executive director who is not a non-executive of Postal Heritage Services, a part that is part of The Postal Museum, and is on the advisory committee for the British Library Labs initiative, which is a program funded by the Mellon Foundation that aims that aims to improve access to the library’s collection.

In 2014 she launched her own company called Good, Form & Spectacle, which has completed projects for institutions like The British Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum and Wellcome Library.

She joined the project in 2009 and began working as the director for the Open Library project at the Internet Archive. While there, she also created innovative interfaces to the Book Reader, the Wayback Machine, as well as the 9/11 Archive.

George Oates Net Worth

George Oates is one of the richest Designer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, George Oates 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

in 1996 Oates began working with the very first team of staff working at the Ngapartji Multimedia Centre in Adelaide where she taught the public in general how to navigate the internet. She also taught classes on HTML Web design and HTML. In the industry of web design for the next seven years Oates quit Australia in 2003 and began working at Ludicorp which was the company that later to create Flickr. After four years in charge of the design of Flickr, Oates invented the Flickr Commons program, which was created to make photos of public use accessible through Flickr without copyright limitations. The first partner of this program was Library of Congress, and it was launched in January of 2008. Oates was dismissed by Yahoo at the close of 2008.

Oates has made public appearances about her work throughout the globe since 2005, and has given key speeches at Smithsonian 2.0, OCLC Futurecast, and Europeana Tech 2015, and is a prominent advocate for open access to cultural data and content.

From 2011 to 2014, Oates was art director at San Francisco data visualization studio Stamen Design. While in San Francisco, she was a judge for the 2013 Information is Beautiful Awards.

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George Ranked on the list of most popular Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. George Oates celebrates birthday on January 10 of every year.