After working as Digital Information Manager for
Johannesburg-based non-profit, the
Electoral Institute of Southern Africa from 2000 to 2002, she went to the United Kingdom to work with the
Association for Progressive Communications, She said in 2010 that Creative Commons and Wikipedia are not inclusive enough for the developing world. and earned a master's degree at the
University of California, Berkeley School of Information. She has blogged at Thoughtleader and Global Voices, and has been a guest on Reuben Goldberg's 'The Internet Economy'. In 2011, IT News Africa named Ford one of Africa's 10 most influential women in science and tech. Ford worked as a digital
ethnographer at
Ushahidi until October 2012 when she began studying for her
DPhil at the
Oxford Internet Institute,
University of Oxford. She gained her PhD from Oxford with her thesis
Fact factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent. Since then, she has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation, investigating questions such as the nature of power within Wikipedia. She was a fellow in digital methods at the
University of Leeds and is currently at the
University of Technology Sydney as an Associate Professor in the School of Communications, the Coordinator of the UTS Data and AI Ethics Cluster, Affiliate of the UTS Data Science Institute, and Associate of the UTS Centre for Media Transition. She spent ten years studying the editing of the Wikipedia article
2011 Egyptian revolution, releasing the book
Writing the Revolution in 2022.
Boards • The African Commons Project Board: 2006–present • The Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board: 2007–2009 • iCommons Board: 2005–2006 == Honors and awards ==