FIGURE 7.2 Juliana Rotich. Julia Rotich (standing) is a young Kenyan telecommunications specialist with a computer science degree from the University of Missouri. She founded and now directs the company that created Ushahidi, a crowdsourcing platform that enables mobile phone users to map crisis information in order to be able to quickly respond to the crises. Ushahidi is now used around the world. Rotich, who also writes a respected blog, Afromusing, is part of a growing number of educated Africans who focus on applying technology to African development needs. Courtesy Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images