Mark Surman Biography

Mark Surman currently serves as the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation makers of Firefox and one of the largest social enterprises in the world. Mark has overseen the development of Popcorn.js which Wired has called the future of online video; the Open Badges initiative launched by the US Secretary of Education; and the Knight Mozilla News Technology partnership which seeks to reinvent the future of digital journalism. During his fellowship he advised a Harvard Berkman study on open source licensing in foundations was the lead author on the Cape Town Open Education Declaration and organized the first open education track at the iCommons Summit which led to him becoming a founding board member of Peer-to-peer University (P2PU). From 2005 to 2008 Mark served as the first Director of Telecentre.org a $26M initiative to connect 1000s of community technology centres around the world supported by Microsoft Canada's International Development Research Centre and the Swiss Development Corporation. While at Telecentre.org Mark spoke at the first World Summit on the Information Society provided the keynote at the Global Knowledge Partnership Summit and built a global network of community technical centres that spanned over 25 countries.

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