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]