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I have to admit that I found this mission daunting when I first read it. Find a hero? You mean, right now? I should just adopt a hero into my heart just like that?

(Where I'm from, it's not popular to have a hero)

And yet, once I started looking, I didn't take long to find one. And it was instant recognition. As soon as I read about her and her work that I knew I had found a mentor and someone to inspire me.

I'm now following Ory Okolloh - a.k.a. The Kenyan Pundit.

From PopTech:

A lawyer, activist and blogger, Ory is the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web / mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. The project was born as a way to track the atrocities and human rights violations that erupted after the 2008 Kenyan presidential election. Ushahidi has since been used to help monitor elections, respond to humanitarian crises, track swine flu outbreaks, enable citizen journalism and monitor crucial pharmaceutical supply levels.


I'm respond to this project for so many reasons -- because it supports human rights work -- because it supports citizen journalism -- because its an open source project -- and because it gives a voice to people in dire need. I'm reading the Ushahidi report on Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and I'm having a hard time putting into words all the emotions that I am feeling as I read so many people ask for water, for tents, for food...

This is technology that humanizes.

Not only have I found a hero, I have also found my Ada.

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Comment by Deborah Cazden on March 10, 2010 at 11:13am
What a great resource! Thanks for the info!
Comment by James Ream on March 11, 2010 at 6:52pm
How do you see your hero's cause/life applicable to your own life and community? Has your shadowing sparked any ideas?
Comment by James Ream on March 11, 2010 at 6:52pm
How do you see your hero's cause/life applicable to your own life and community? Has your shadowing sparked any ideas?
Comment by Shakwei Mbindyo on March 11, 2010 at 7:03pm
Great choice for a hero (go Kenyan sisters!). I totally undertand the challenge of searching for a hero ... even when I think I have found one I am not sure I have - sigh!
Comment by Caroline Meeks on March 12, 2010 at 1:57am
Very cool. I worked on the Ushahidi Haiti effort but I hadn't realized that one of the founders was a woman. :)
Comment by Khaled Kurdi on March 16, 2010 at 9:51am
This is technology that humanizes.... Wow..love this...thanks
Comment by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on April 2, 2010 at 11:50am
Oh my God that Ada Lovelace cartoon is brilliant!
Comment by Riko Kamachi on April 2, 2010 at 12:20pm
Wow I'd never even heard of Ory Okolloh, or Ushahidi... truly amazing, the people and projects people unearth here. Thanks for this!
Comment by MichalHuller on April 4, 2010 at 7:00pm
Mita, a wonderful post and a vary interesting Hero.
I'm also living in the border line of technology and humanitism, and long time ago I studied the computer programming language called ADA.
Thanks and have a good luck!
Comment by L on April 20, 2010 at 2:03am
+1 Spark for the your protriat of a hero.

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