Dave Duarte – Public Lead

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.

Andrew Rens – Legal Lead

Andrew Rens BA, LLB, LLM (Wits) is qualified as an attorney with rights of appearance in the High Court of South Africa. He has worked for a commercial legal practise, the CCMA (a government labor dispute resolution body), as a human rights lawyer at the Wits law Clinic, and has taught Intellectual Property, Telecommunications and Media law at the University of the Witwatersrand Law School where he created a course in Internet Law.

Heather Ford – Founder of CC SA project

Heather Ford is a South African who has worked for NGOs in the fields of Information and Communications Technology policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Heather graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree and has a certificate in Telecommunications Policy, Law and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand Link Centre. She worked with Creative Commons when she was a fellow at the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University and is now running the Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons project at the Wits LINK Centre. She is the Executive Director of iCommons.

Kerryn McKay – Writer

Kerryn McKay is a researcher on the Commons-sense project at the Wits Link Centre who also volunteers for Creative Commons South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University, majoring in Journalism & Media Studies and English. She has worked in the advertising and publishing industries, and has also held the position of marketing researcher at an online marketing company which operates within the international e-commerce arena.