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And yet another post on women in tech

Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 18:58, by Ms. Ory Okolloh

The recent “Women in Tech” (disaster) panel at Techcrunch reminded me of a long overdue post I’ve been wanting to write on the absence-of- women-in-tech debate that’s being doing the rounds over the last few months.

Part of it revolves around the far too common prevalence of all (white) male panels/speakers at top tech conferences…a phenomenon I’m all too familiar with (as the pinch-hitter diversity rescuer I seem to be morphing into)… and part of it is around low numbers female-founded start-ups & tech companies.

I’m happy to see that the conversation is moving away from… ( Read on! )

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On Greece and the Kenyan economy (well sort of)

Monday, September 27, 2010 - 01:35, by Ms. Ory Okolloh

I’ve just finished reading a fascinating article in Open Democracy about the collapse of the Greek economy and what it will take to fix it. While Greece and Kenya are fundamentally different countries, I was struck by how well the author unpacked the underlying dysfunction of Greece as a country and an economy and how some of the issues apply to the Kenyan economy today.

Don’t have anything clever to add to the article’s analysis, just want to point out the things that stood out for me.

For starters, the author notes:

In a small-scale economy households make different choices from… ( Read on! )

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She likes to blog about women’s rights in Kenya, blogging in Africa, technology in Africa and the fact that Africans have the right to creating our own content, telling our own stories, and reflecting the diversity of Africa. (Read on!)

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