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Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do…

— Ory Okolloh

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or…

— Ory Okolloh

Omidyar Network first supported Africa Check in 2014 when they were a team of just three dedicated people intent on building a more fact-based…

— Ory Okolloh

I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in…

— Ory Okolloh

I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge.

— Ory Okolloh

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

— Ory Okolloh

Technology is the perfect refuge for African capability stifled elsewhere by badly run governments and years of misplaced foreign aid. Ubiquitous connectivity in a…

— Ory Okolloh

21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the…

— Ory Okolloh

Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is,…

— Ory Okolloh

All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that…

— Ory Okolloh

As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response to local…

— Ory Okolloh

The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

— Ory Okolloh