Yochai Benkler Recipient of the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award

The Ford Foundation is on the frontlines of social change around the world, working with visionary leaders and organizations to change social structures and institutions—so that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their full potential and have a voice in decisions that affect them. To celebrate their 75th anniversary, they created the Ford Foundation Visionaries Awards to raise the profile of 12 extraordinary leaders. These individuals are chosen because of their innovative efforts on the frontlines of key social issues to offer clear and concrete pathways to improved economic opportunities and expanded political and social participation for millions of marginalized people worldwide. Monitor Talent is pleased to announce that Yochai Benkler, recognized leading thinking on technology and the law, was selected for his extraordinary work. Yochai has been working since the 1990's to pinpoint the importance of the "information commons"— systems such as libraries or online communities that exist to preserve information for current and future generations—to innovation, information production and freedom.

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