Felipe Heusser (born 1980) is a Chilean activist and social entrepreneur, co-founder of Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American civic technology organization based in Santiago-Chile, awarded with the 2011 Golden Nica for 'Digital Communities' [1] and the 2013 Omidyar Network Award. [2]
Heusser is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, [3] where he conducts research in the topics of open government and civic technologies. [3]
Being an Ashoka Fellow since 2010, [4] Heusser has also co-founded the Latin American Civic-Hacking network Developing Latin America, the Chilean online radio Subela, [5] and most recently the open live streaming network Rhinobird.tv, for which Heusser was awarded with the 2011 Knight News Challenge together with Jeffrey Warren. [6] [7]
Heusser is a member of the board of advisers for Code for America. [8]