Ory Okolloh, 37, head of Google Africa since 2010, works to develop African potential on the internet in Johannesburg. A law graduate at Harvard, a former lawyer and blogger, she was part of the collectives that set up the Mzalendo site (patriot in Swahili) then Ushahidi (witness).
This interactive tool made it possible to collect in real time the testimonies on 2007 political violence in Kenya. Its open source software has been used throughout the world and used in natural disasters, especially during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
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