Shuttleworth Foundation
South African organization promoting social change / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. The Foundation announced that it is shutting itself down "by the beginning of 2024."[2]
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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 | shuttleworthfoundation |
Notable past and present fellows include Marcin Jakubowski (who develops the Open Source Ecology project), Rufus Pollock (co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation[3]) and Mark Surman (now Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation.[4])