Listen Gilda Odera is a pioneer in the Internet service provision and business process outsourcing industry in Kenya, having founded and served as managing director of Skyweb-Evans and co-founder, owner and director of Skyweb Technologies. Odera’s contribution to the industry has been recognised through various awards. She has won the Africa ICT Achievers’ Award, and […]
Listen Alice Wanjira Munyua has relentlessly contributed to improving and sustaining Africa’s Internet community, believing that this is the key to showing the world that the continent is alive and well. When Alice Wanjira Munyua completed her bachelor’s degree in Italy, she became the project director for Radio Refugee Service and the United Nations High […]
Listen Love for the sciences, the outdoors and tinkering helped Betty Mwangi-Thuo choose her career path. She is one of the most influential people in the ICT space in Kenya and in the region. She was in charge of mobile money platform M-PESA at Safaricom — a leading mobile service provider — steadily steering the […]
Listen Mugure Mugo is the founder and managing director of Preciss International, Kenya’s first business process outsourcing (BPO) company. She is also the founder and former managing director of E-Business Solutions. She was nominated to the international Who’s Who of professionals in 2008–2009 because of her work in Kenya’s outsourcing industry. She fills various roles […]
Listen In interest in writing manuals for various pieces of equipment her father had, developed into a stellar career in ICT for Dr Katherine W. Getao. She has spearheaded the ICT strategy in Kenya, and was part of the team that created undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in computer science at the University of Nairobi, making […]
Listen Recognised internationally as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011 and listed as one of the Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People in 2014, Ory Okolloh is one of Kenya’s best minds. She was one of six Kenyans named in the 2015 Quartz Africa Innovators list by a US-based digital […]
Listen Her passion and enthusiasm that fired up Jyoti Mukherjee and put her on the path to greatness still ripples through her every time she talks about issues close to her heart — family, employees, Kenya, business and of course, computers. Jyoti Mukherjee, the trendsetter, technocrat and nurturer, is never too far away from the […]
Listen Judith Owigar is the founder and director of Adem Systems Ltd. and the co-founder and president of JuaKali, an online jobs site for skilled manual labourers. She is also the president and co-founder of AkiraChix, an organisation created to change the perception of women in technology through training, mentorship and networking. Owigar is a […]