Ory Okolloh

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Oro Okolloh (2006)

Ory Okolloh Mwangi (* 1977 in Kenya ) is a Kenyan lawyer, activist, blogger and manager.

Youth and education

Ory Okolloh was born into a relatively poor family. She reported that her parents had sent her to a private elementary school that they "could hardly afford" but that formed the basis of her later career. She studied political science at the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2005 with a law degree .

Career

In 2006, Okolloh and others founded the internet platform "Mzalendo" ( Swahili : "Patriot"), which was supposed to serve as extra-parliamentary control of the government through systematic reporting on laws, speeches, members of parliament, the rules of procedure, etc.

When Kenya sank into violence in the wake of the 2007 presidential election, Okolloh, along with Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich and David Kobia, created the non-profit technology company Ushahidi (Swahili: "testimony"), on whose website eyewitness reports of acts of violence were collected and recorded Use of texts on social media with geographic assignments on Google Maps . The technology was subsequently adapted and was used on other occasions (election observation, natural disasters, availability of medicines) and in many other countries.

While still a student, Okolloh wrote a personal blog , Kenyan Pundit , which appeared on Global Voices Online .

She worked as a legal advisor to NGOs , the international law firm Covington and Burling and the Kenyan Human Rights Commission .

She is a member of the World Bank Committee for determining key figures in the field of government tasks such as health and education.

From 2011 to 2013 she was the head of strategy for Africa at Google .

Okolloh was elected to the advisory board of the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company in May 2018 , which is responsible for ensuring compliance with the company's mission statement .

She heads the holding companies of the philanthropic company Omidyar Network, founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar in 1998 .

Private

Ory Okolloh is married and lives with her husband and three children in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Care Dwyer Hogg: Modern networker: using ICT to change Kenyan life for the better . In: The Independent , March 10, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2009. 
  2. ↑ a b Ory Okolloh: Ory Okolloh on becoming an activist . In: TED Talks . June 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Megha Bahree: Citizen Voices . In: Forbes , November 13, 2008. Retrieved September 11, 2009. 
  4. ↑ a b Ory Okolloh: About . In: Kenyan Pundit . Retrieved September 11, 2009.
  5. ↑ a b Shashank Bengali: Native voices blog out of Africa . In: McClatchy Newspapers , June 21, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2009. 
  6. ^ Andrew Heavens: The web watchdog biting Kenya's MPs . In: BBC News , March 14, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2009. 
  7. ^ Clark Boyd: Global Voices speak through blogs . In: BBC News , April 6, 2005. Retrieved March 9, 2019. 
  8. ^ Wallace Kantai: Kenyan gives platform for airing post-poll atrocities . In: Business Daily , Nation Media Group, July 19, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2009. 
  9. ↑ http://live.worldbank.org/experts/ory-okolloh
  10. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2012/06/01/africas-most-successful-women-ory-okolloh/#34e5248f4af7
  11. ↑ Ory Okolloh joins Reuters Board of Directors . In: Innovation Village . Accessed May 10, 2015. 
  12. ↑ Group launches initiative for global policy reform to lower Internet access cost . Retrieved October 8, 2013. 
  13. ↑ Omar Mohammed: Why aren't more wealthy Africans backing the continent's start-ups? . June 9, 2015. Accessed September 27, 2015.
  14. ↑ Hanna Kozlowska: # 147notjustanumber aims to name All Those slain in Kenya attack . April 6, 2015. Accessed September 27, 2015.
  15. ↑ https://www.fastcompany.com/3016977/the-most-influential-women-in-technology-2011-ory-okolloh accessed on March 7, 2019
  16. ↑ https://www.weforum.org/people/ory-okolloh accessed on March 7, 2019
  17. ↑ http://time.com/collection-post/70848/ory-okolloh-2014-time-100/ accessed on March 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Okolloh, Ory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Okolloh Mwangi, Ory (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan lawyer, activist, blogger and manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenya