Biography

Juliana Rotich is originally from Kenya, where she spent her early life and schooling. She later moved to the US where she studied information technology, and has worked in the industry for over 10 years. She co-founded Ushahidi (the Swahili word for testimony), a web-based reporting system that utilizes crowdsourced data to formulate visual map information of crisis situations in real time. Rotich also blogs at Afromusing blog, and is a budding African Futurist and a TED Senior Fellow.