Kerry Anderson
AfricanLII
Paid: 2011
Idea: 'a social wrapper for law'; an interface for legislation and case law that enables comment on the effectiveness and implementation of law by anyone. The feeder grant would be used is to run a workshop and pilot the interface potentially the 1st major development in legal information space sinc ...
Matthew Brown
Co-founder: Sea Monster
Paid: 2011
I'm nominating Matthew Brown for a feeder grant. Matthew is a co-founder of Sea Monster, a young animation and game-development company. My reasons for nominating him: His work comes with built-in education/social responsibility: Before Sea Monster, Matthew headed up production at Clockwork Zoo ...
Luping Xu
Wiser-U
Paid: 2011
I'd like to nominate Luping Xu (pronounced 'shoe'), a super-energetic young Chinese researcher based in Paris, who is promoting the use of open source hardware and software in education and research in China, through events such as Wiser Camp 2011 and TEDxWiser 2010. He is the driving force behin ...
Anna Lewis
CompletelyNovel
Paid: 2011
I'd like to nominate Anna Lewis for a feeder grant. Anna is a digital publishing innovator from the UK, who I first met as she was shortlisted for the UKYPE award that I won last year. She's a self-starter tech entrepreneur: very committed and well-respected with some big ideas for future grow ...
Carl Scheffler
Paid: 2011
I would like to nominate Carl Scheffler for an exploration mini-grant. Mark Horner met Carl while interviewing for a Siyavula developer position, but Carl was still in Switzerland. Mark suggested that I contact him for developing OER Roadmap software and he has been working with me part time since t ...
Emma Mulqueeny
Young Rewired State
Paid: 2011
I'd like to nominate Emma Mulqueeny based on the work she's been doing w/ Young Rewired State: http://www.youngrewiredstate.org/ She's basically taking kids who have been teaching themselves to code, and then amping it up with mentorship and community events. It's small scale, but had a ton o ...
Mark Pesce
inventor of VRML
Paid: 2011
Mark Pesce is a futurist, inventor of VRML, the Virtual Reality Markup Language, and author of several books. Mark is passionate about reversing the unhealthy concentration in commercial enterprises of knowledge of our social graphs -- that is the people we connect with and communicate with. K ...
David Albert
Started Hacker School in NYC
Paid: 2011
I'm nominating David Albert, who started Hacker School in NYC. Hacker School is an awesome three-months immersion into becoming a web developer. (Disclaimer: I have not met David in person. However, I've been following his work for a few months, I've asked someone I trust for a reference - which wa ...
Friedrich Lindenberg
Open data evangelist
Paid: 2011
I'm nominating Friedrich Lindenberg (, @pudo) civic hacker, open data evangelist and data wrangler extraordinaire. His work includes Adhocracy, Offener Haushalt, OffenesParlement, OffeneDaten, YourTopia and numerous other open data projects. His portfolio is at: ht ...
