Oren Yakobovich of Videre Accepts the 2016 Skoll Award
Speakers
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Founder & CEO at Kamara Global Group / President at Videre Est Credere, Kamara Global Group
Oren Yakobovich is an experienced social entrepreneur who has been challenging and disrupting unjust systems. He combines traditional knowledge gathering with new technology and cutting-edge tools to shine a light on abuses and hold power to account.
He is founder and CEO of Kamara, a social enterprise that works with human rights and grass-roots organisations, building resilience through holistic security management and strategic investigations with the aimed to protect both the organisations and the social impact investors funding them.
He co-founded Videre Est Credere, an NGO that equips oppressed communities with customised technology to uncover information from places where media can’t or won’t go. Prior to that, he lead the video department at B’Tselem, training hundreds of citizens fighting for justice in the West Bank.
He is an Ashoka Fellow and recipient of the 2016 Skoll Foundation Award and a TED Global Speaker
