Explore the impact of the “mobile first” revolution.
April 15-16, 2013
New York, New York
Speaker
Juliana Rotich 
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Ushahidi
Juliana Rotich is co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi Inc., a nonprofit tech company,
born in Africa, which specializes in developing 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 expanding its global footprint and making crowdsourcing tools available and useful, and catalyzing entrepreneurial initiatives like iHub in Kenya.
Originally from Kenya, Rotich has a computer science degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. An MIT Fellow and TED Senior Fellow, she currently serves as vice chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development. For fun, she likes to make USB earrings.
Posts With Juliana Rotich
Ushahidi Raising Kickstarter Funding for Rugged Hotspot BRCK
Ushahidi, the nonprofit tech company best known for disaster mapping, is branching out into hardware.
Kenya’s Ushahidi Brings Tech Help Where It’s Needed Most
Also, meet the BRCK.
Mobile Goes Global
From New York City today and tomorrow, D: Dive Into Mobile puts top execs onstage for their perspective on the global mobile scene.
Watch Google, WhatsApp, Facebook and Ushahidi on Our Dive Into Mobile Livestream
Watch Google’s Eric Schmidt, WhatsApp’s Jan Koum, Facebook’s Mike Schroepfer and Ushahidi’s Juliana Rotich live on April 16.
Dive Into Mobile Gets Even More Global With Xiaomi’s Lin, NQ Mobile’s Khan and Ushahidi’s Rotich
Don’t miss Bin Lin of Xiaomi, Omar Khan of NQ Mobile and Juliana Rotich of Ushahidi at D: Dive Into Mobile.