About Me
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently an open philanthropy fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation in South Africa, where he is inventing new ways to apply open source thinking to social innovation. He is also the partnership advisor and former managing director at telecentre.org, a $26 million effort to network community technology activists in countries around the world. On the side, Mark convenes conversations about all things ‘open’ in Toronto and around the world.
