Juliana Rotich

Nairobi, from 2008. Rotich co-founded Ushahidi, open-source crisis-mapping software written by Kenyan developers, and then BRCK, a rugged router designed and partly built in Nairobi for patchy power and networks. Being in Nairobi meant designing for the conditions their customers actually faced, and the iHub community space gave them a pool of developers. Raising hardware capital locally remained hard.