Women in IT - Ory Okolloh

   Today our woman crush Wednesday in the IT industry is the Kenyan lawyer activist and blogger Ory Okolloh.
   She has been covered extensively by the press both locally and globally in the financial, technological and business niches, primarily as a co-founder of the website Ushahidi.com, which as the site explains was "developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election violence in 2008" and strives "to create technology that solves global problems". The website has also been described as a "tech company that specializes in developing free and open software for information collection virtualization and interactive mapping" by IT News Africa.

   She is also the co-founder of Mzalendo, a parliamentary watchdog site that sought to increase government accountability by recording bills, speeches, standing orders and so on, systematically. She has also held the position of policy manager for Africa within Google.

   Ory Okolloh has been ranked second place in ITNewsAfrica's Most Influential Women in Science and Technology feature list, is described by Forbes as "a Harvard-trained lawyer activist and blogger... widely acknowledged as one of the most influential women in global technology" and has been profiled by Forbes.

   Lastly, Ory Okolloh lives in Kenya with her three children and runs a personal blog known as  Kenyan Pundit which was featured on Global Voices Online.