Shuttleworth Foundation

While there have been various iterations of the foundation, its structure and how it invests in social innovation, the current model employs a fellowship model where fellows are given funding commensurate with their experience to match a year's salary, allowing them to spend that year developing a particular idea. The Foundation announced that it is shutting itself down "by the beginning of 2024."

Shuttleworth Foundation

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Founded	2001
Founder	Mark Shuttleworth
Focus	Open source, open content, open educational resources
Location	Durbanville, South Africa
Area served	Global
Method	Fellowships
Key people	Mark Shuttleworth, founder Helen Turvey, CEO
Website	shuttleworthfoundation.org

Notable past and present fellows include Marcin Jakubowski (who develops the Open Source Ecology project), Rufus Pollock (co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation) and Mark Surman (now Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation.)

The Foundation provides funding for people who have an unproven idea in the form of a 'salary', travel and office expenses. For every dollar invested by the Fellow in a project, the Foundation will put in ten or more, allowing the Fellow to own all Intellectual Property and processes once the active fellowship has ceased.

• Freedom Toaster
• Kusasa
• SchoolTool, student information system
• Serval Project, for smart phone ad hoc networks
• strong encryption for Twitter
• tuXlabs
• FarmBot
• Lawuna