Jonathan D. Gosier (Co-Founder)

Jonathan Gosier is an American software developer, writer, social entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of East African software consultancy Appfrica. He’s the co-founder of Hive Colab a business accelerator and incubator for East African Startups.

As a TED Senior Fellow, Jon Gosier is a past speaker at the TED Conference. In 2009 Jon spoke at TEDGlobal in Oxford about his company Appfrica and one of their projects which connected rural African villages with the internet. The service, in collaboration with nonprofit OpenMind, was called QuestionBox and allowed people with no access to the internet to ask questions and get timely, vetted answers. He currently works with Ushahidi as the lead of the SwiftRiver project.