Internet giant; Google intends to invest in innovation and get more users online by developing an accessible, relevant and sustainable internet ecosystem. According to the Policy and Government Relations Manager for Google Africa, Ory Okolloh, this will bring about merging innovations technology and the productive technology. Speaking on Friday at the interactive sessions at the …
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Africa‘s technology community will thrive only by facing up to the continent’s fundamental problems. – By Ory Okolloh Africa is trending, if stories in the international media over the last year are anything to go by. And no story about “rising Africa”—many of us would argue it has “arisen”—is complete without mention of the role …
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The success of Ushahidi as both an activist organization and as a technology startup is one that is widely recognized as Africa’s first big ‘garage’ startup success story. The organization was born out of the 2007 post-election unrest in Kenya when Ory Okolloh put out a call to map citizen reports of violence. Erik Hersman, …
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