San Francisco July 10 (IANS) Sunil Abraham Executive Director of Bengaluru-based The Centre for Internet and Society has been appointed as Vice President VP Leadership Programmes at Mozilla Foundation -- a US-based non-profit organisation that leads the Open Source Mozilla project.
Abraham will start as an advisor to Mozilla s executive team and directors and will move to Berlin full-time in January 2019 Mozilla Foundation said in a statement.
"I m thrilled to welcome Sunil Abraham. Sunil joins us from The Centre for Internet and Society the most recent chapter in a 20 year career of developing free and open source software and an open internet agenda " Mark Surman Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation said in a blog post.
Abraham first founded Mahiti a non-profit software development shop and then The Centre for Internet and Society a policy and technology think tank in Bengaluru.
In his new role Abraham "will head up the programmes that bring people from around the world into our work - the Internet Health Report MozFest our fellowships and awards - with the aim of supporting people who want to take a leadership role in this community " Surman said.
Abraham was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999 to "explore the democratic potential of the Internet" and was also granted a Sarai FLOSS fellowship in 2003.
Between June 2004 and June 2007 he also managed the International Open Source Network a project of United Nations Development Programme s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme serving 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary Mozilla Corporation.
Firefox is available for Windows macOS Linux and BSD operating systems.

--IANS na/vd