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In January of 2008 I was one of the African bloggers and technologists who built Ushahidi (which means "testimony" in Swahili), a website created to map the reported incidents of violence happening during the post-election crisis in Kenya.  Currently, I am working with a team of mostly-African programmers to use what we learned from building Ushahidi to create a free and open source engine that makes it easier to crowdsource crisis information and visualize data.  It is now running in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

As a hobby, I write two different technology blogs including: AfriGadget and WhiteAfrican.  AfriGadget is a multi-author website that showcases stories of Africans solving everyday problems with little more than their creativity and ingenuity.  Fascinated by micro-entrepreneurs, gadgets and improvisation I like to show that technology is changing Africa - daily.     WhiteAfrican is my personal blog, dedicated to high-tech mobile and web projects, thoughts and ideas happening all over the African continent.