Erik Hersman

Raised in Kenya and Sudan, Erik Hersman is a technologist and blogger who lives in Nairobi.  He is a co-founder of Ushahidi, a free and open source platform for crowdsourcing information and visualizing data.  He is the founder of AfriGadget, a multi-author site that showcases stories of African inventions and ingenuity, and an African technology blogger at WhiteAfrican.com.   His current project is the iHub, Nairobi’s Innovation Hub for the technology community, bringing together entrepreneurs, hackers, designers and the investment community.

Erik is a TED Senior Fellow, a PopTech Fellow and speaker and an organizer for Maker Faire Africa.