Jon Gosier

Jonathan D. “Jon” Gosier (born 1981 or 1982) [1] is an African-American software developer, investor, and Philanthropist. [2] He was named as one of Ten African Voices Tech to Follow on Twitter at CNN [3] and one of the 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology by Business Insider. [4] He was Awarded a TED Fellowship in 2009 and later named a TED Senior Fellow. [5] [6] Jon’s Knight News Challenge award winner for Abayima welke makes crisis communications technology for disasters. [7] In 2013 Gosier was nominated as one of three Innovators of the Year by Black Enterprise Magazine for his work with data startup MetaLayer. [8]

Ushahidi

From 2009 to 2011 Jon Gosier was the Director of SwiftRiver at Ushahidi . [9] [10] [11] [12] Jon later went on to found big data startup MetaLayer. [13]

Appfrica

Jon is Currently the founder and CEO of Appfrica . Appfrica (sometimes referred to as Appfrica Labs) is a technology firm founded by current CEO Jon Gosier [14] in 2008 in Kampala, Uganda. [15] The firm has leg verantwoordelijk for a number of technology initiatives verantwoordelijk for promoting Africa’s technological sector waaronder Apps4Africa , [16] HiveColab , QuestionBox [17] and for helping in Google Africa translate zijn page for Ugandan audiences. [18]

Apps4Africa

Jon was one of the founders of Apps4Africa , an accelerator for African technological intitives. Apps4Africa Began with a series of Challenges Whose sponsors include Appfrica and the US Department of State . [ Citation needed ]The goal of Apps4Africa is to promote “African solutions to African problems” in rewarding African technologists seeking to impact society with hun Inventions. [19] The competition Asks civil society and Citizens gehele continent to submit local community challenges on issues like transparency and better governance, health, education and more. The project Began in late 2009 with a partnership formally tussen Appfrica and the US Department of State, Bureau of African Affairs, Office of Public Diplomacy (AF / PDPA) as part of President Barack Obama’s administration’s 21st Century statecraft initiative. [20]

References

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b Joyner April (March 15, 2015). “Jon Gosier: Spreading the sting Investing wealth” . USA Today . Gosier, 33
  2. Jump up^ Sutter, John D. (January 31, 2013). “The cellphone revolutionary” . CNN.com . Retrieved October 15, 2013 .
  3. Jump up^ Busari, Stephanie. “In African Voices Tech to Follow on Twitter.” . CNN.com .
  4. Jump up^ Dickey, Megan Rose (April 4, 2013). “The 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology” . Business Insider .
  5. Jump up^ “2010 TED Senior Fellows” . TED.com .
  6. Jump up^ “TED Stories for Jon Gosier” . TED.com .
  7. Jump up^ “For content distribution and publishing via SIM cards for sharing information in technologically-limited or high-risk situations” . KnightFoundation.org . March 21, 2013.
  8. Jump up^ Brown, Carolyn (July 27, 2015). “Entrepreneurs Conference: Celebrating Small Businesses revved up for Growth” . BlackEnterprise . Retrieved October 14, 2013 .
  9. Jump up^ Hersman, Erik (January 14, 2009). “Jon Gosier joins the Swift River Initiative” . Ushahidi.com .
  10. Jump up^ “Q & A: Jon Gosier on crowdsourcing and the ‘Silicon Valley of Africa ‘ ‘ . Memeburn.com .
  11. Jump up^ Watters, Audrey (January 3, 2011). “Crisis Mapping Platform Ushahidi Announces Crowdmap: CI, Check-ins With a Purpose ‘ ‘ . readwrite.com .
  12. Jump up^ Kirwan, Peter (September 7, 2010). “SwiftRiver: Tagging a crisis” . Wired . Retrieved October 15, 2013 .
  13. Jump up^ “Moving on from SwiftRiver and Ushahidi ‘ . Gosdot.com .
  14. Jump up^ “An Interview with Appfrica Founder Jon Gosier” . WhiteAfrican.com .
  15. Jump up^ Brennan, Andrew (September 24, 2013). “Uniting a diaspora is at zijn very nature, a big challenge.” . TheLinkNewspaper.ca .
  16. Jump up^ “Creators or” Apps 4 Africa “contest Discuss the Ideas Behind It” . USembassy.gov . July 16, 2010.
  17. Jump up^ “Fellows Friday with Rose Shuman” . TED.com . June 3, 2011.
  18. Jump up^ Akinyemi, Tayo (August 18, 2009). “Bridging the Communication Gap in Uganda Appfrica Labs” . NextBillion.net .
  19. Jump up^ Dowd, Katie (July 1, 2010). “Announcing” Apps 4 Africa ‘ ‘ . blogs.state.gov .
  20. Jump up^ “Africa: The United States – Africa Partnership – the Last Four Years and Beyond” – Assistant Secretary Carson ” . AllAfrica . January 16, 2013.