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.
