Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa
Juliana Rotich: Maak kennis met BRCK, voor Afrika ontwikkelde internettoegang
Juliana Rotich is the co-founder of Ushahidi, open-source software for collecting and mapping information -- and of iHub, a collective tech space in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a TED Senior Fellow. Full bio
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ontstond Ushahidi.
en ontwikkelden we een stukje software
en in kaart te brengen,
tijdens de begindagen heeft bijgestaan.
technologisch ecosysteem in Kenia.
konden aangeven waar ze waren
Ik woonde namelijk in Chicago
naar Rwanda, Ghana of Nigeria te bellen.
voor verschillende mobiele providers.
Wij stuwen de technologie voort via de functie.]
naar het dichtstbijzijnde mobiele netwerk.
- we houden van sensoren -
We hebben zeer interessante gesprekken
om dit op de markt te krijgen.
we niet alleen een impact hebben
worden aangegaan.
voor de wereldwijde digitale revolutie.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Juliana Rotich - Tech entrepreneurJuliana Rotich is the co-founder of Ushahidi, open-source software for collecting and mapping information -- and of iHub, a collective tech space in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a TED Senior Fellow.
Why you should listen
Juliana Rotich is co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a nonprofit tech company, born in Africa, that develops free and open-source software for information collection, interactive mapping and data curation. Ushahidi builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. Through Crowdmap.com, Swiftly.org and accompanying mobile applications, Ushahidi is making crowdsourcing tools available and useful. Their latest product is BRCK, a tool for resilient connectivity -- anywhere.
Rotich is also a founder of iHub, a Nairobi tech space described as "part open community workspace (co-working), part vector for investors and VCs and part incubator." She is a TED Senior Fellow and serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Information Communications Technology. She co-founded Mobisoko, a mobile marketplace for language and location relevant apps in Africa. She was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 by The World Economic Forum.
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