Heather Ford

Quick Facts

Full Name	Heather Ford
Occupation	Researcher
Date Of Birth	Jan 6, 1978(1978-01-06)
Age	46
Birthplace	Pietermaritzburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	KwaZulu-Natal
Horoscope	Capricorn

Heather Ford Biography

Heather Ford is one of the most popular and richest Researcher who was born on January 6, 1978 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Ford was born 6 January 1978 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa’s province of Kwa-Zulu Natal. She was the Head Girl at Carter High School, Pietermaritzburg, and won awards for drama, debating and music.

She was awarded a scholarship by Benetech in 2003 to Stanford University, where she was a fellow of the Reuters Digital Vision Program. After volunteering for Creative Commons at Stanford, she returned to South Africa to begin Creative Commons South Africa. She also started a program called “Commons-sense Towards an African Digital Information Commons” at Wits University Link Centre. The University of the Witwatersrand has awarded her a postgraduate certificate on telecomms policy. Heather founded The African Commons Project in South Africa, a non-profit organization that works on Africa’s commons.

Ford was previously a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation and earned a master’s degree at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. She has blogged at Thoughtleader and Global Voices, and has been a guest on Reuben Goldberg’s ‘The Internet Economy’. In 2011, IT News Africa named Ford one of Africa’s 10 most influential women in science and tech.

Ford 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. She gained her PhD from Oxford with her thesis “Fact factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent”. Since then, she has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation, investigating questions such as the nature of power within Wikipedia. She is a fellow in digital methods at the University of Leeds.

After serving as the Digital Information Manager for the Johannesburg-based non-profit, The Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, from 2000 to 2002 she moved to the United Kingdom to assist with Internet rights advocacy in Europe.

Heather Ford Net Worth

Heather Ford is one of the richest Researcher from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Heather Ford 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Heather Ford, born 6 January 1978, is a South African blogger, journalist, journalist, open source activist, and researcher. She has worked in the fields of Internet law and management in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Creative Commons South Africa was founded by her. She is an academic at the University of Leeds and has researched the nature of power in Wikipedia.

Ford attended Rhodes University in 1996 to complete a four year Bachelor of Journalism degree with a major in communication design. Ford served as Arts and Culture Editor at Rhodes University’s student newspaper, Activate. She also performed in many plays and dance dramas during her time there. Ford co- wrote and starred as the lead in the National Arts Festival Fringe Festival play, ‘Sincerely Colour’. She was also considering a career in dance choreography before she found work in the media industry.

In 2006, Ford was appointed Executive Director of iCommons, a UK private charitable corporation. Working with Creative Commons, iCommons collaborates with communities interested in open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture. After iCommons, in 2009 Ford founded the GeekRetreat, an event aiming to bring together technologists from around South Africa to discuss improving the local Internet. She said in 2010 that Creative Commons and Wikipedia are not inclusive enough for the developing world.

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Heather Ranked on the list of most popular Researcher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Heather Ford celebrates birthday on January 6 of every year.