Bassel Khartabil

Who is Bassel Khartabil?

Bassel Khartabil also known as Bassel Safadi is a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. Since March 15, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, he is currently detained by the Syrian government in Damascus at Adra Prison.

Khartabil was born and raised in Syria, where he specializes in open source software development. He has been CTO and co-founder of collaborative research company Aiki Lab and was CTO of Al-Aous, a publishing and research institution dedicated to archaeological sciences and arts in Syria. He has served as project lead and public affiliate for Creative Commons Syria, and has contributed to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, Openclipart, Fabricatorz, and Sharism. He "is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."

His most recent work includes a 3D photo realistic reconstruction of the old city of Palmyra, real time visualization, and development with Fabricatorz for the web programming framework Aiki Framework.