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Mark was born and raised in South Africa, and
studied finance and
information technology at the University of
Cape Town. He went on to found
Thawte, a company specialising in digital
certificates and internet privacy,
developed using Open Source software. He sold
Thawte to the American company
VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture
Capital and The Shuttleworth
Foundation. In April 2002 Mark became the
first African in space, as a cosmonaut
member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to
the International Space Station.
Mark maintains that 'If we are to lift Africa
from her current circumstances,
we will need a generation of learners that
are gifted with curiosity about
the world in which they live, and the tools
to understand and shape that world'.
With this in mind he and his Foundation have
invested in projects such as
TuxLabs, HIP2B2, The School Tool Project (to
develop a common global school
administration infrastructure that is freely
available under an Open Source
licence)and The Ubuntu Project, a community
project with participation from
many volunteers, sponsored by Canonical Ltd.
Presented by Marc Chase
Tags : marc chase go open source linux ubuntu mark shuttleworth thawte tv television voiceover english |
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