New Lead for Creative Commons South Africa
Dave will be working with Legal Lead Andrew Rens to develop the awareness and use of Creative Commons licenses in South Africa, and nurture the growing CC community here.
A bit about Dave, from his site:
Dave Duarte is founder and programme director of Nomadic Marketing at the UCT Graduate School of Business. He also lectures on the MBA, Executive MBA, as well as Open and Customized programmes for corporates around Africa and in Europe. He also teaches compulsory modules at UCT on undergraduate level. His topics are Social Media, Web Marketing, Attention Economics, Innovation and Globalization.
Dave is a partner in learning technology company, Huddlemind Labs; co-owner of Muti.co.za (a popular South African news-filtering site); Co-Founder of 27dinner (free monthly gatherings for new-media enthusiasts in SA); advisory board member for Ikineo (communications and marketing firm); and is a Fellow of iCommons.
In 2007 he was runner-up in the Young African ICT Innovator of the Year awards.
Dave’s first business was an eventing company, and later a restaurant. We look forward to him applying those hospitality skills to some big CC ZA events during his tenure as Project Lead!