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 the 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 aiming 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 led the video department at B’Tselem, training hundreds of citizens fighting for justice in the West Bank. Oren is an Ashoka Fellow, a Ted Global Speaker, the recipient of the 2016 Skoll Award, the One World Media Award and The International Media Award's Cutting Edge.
