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ford at wikimania 2014 yes 's voice type = speech description = recorded august 2014 filename = heather ford voice.flac title = ford pietermaritzburg , south africa 200px 6 january 1978 wikimania sessions 2014 21.jpg heather ford
 heather ford researcher activist , blogger , journalist , entrepreneur , and
heather ford

heather ford -lrb- born 6 january 1978 -rrb- is a south african researcher , blogger , journalist , social entrepreneur and open source activist who has worked in the field of internet policy , law and management in south africa , the united kingdom and the united states .
she is the founder of creative commons south africa .
she 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 .
