Heather Ford 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 has studied the nature of power within Wikipedia and is a researcher at the University of Leeds.
Books in order of publication:
Open Culture in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch). 2009
Getting to the source. Where does Wikipedia get its information from? Coauthored with Shilad Sen, David R. Musicant, and Nathaniel Miller, Presented at WikiSym -2013
Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age. MIT Press. 2022.
Oak Lawn Library Friends 