Jonathan Gosier
Jonathan Gosier
Jonathan Gosier is an American-born software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging economies in the world. Jon currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer at Question Box <http://questionbox.org>, a platform that brings the internet to the illiterate and unconnected. He writes the appfrica.net blog, a web portal for the latest news related to web development, social media, innovation, education and African entrepreneurship in other areas of technology. Jon Gosier is also the founder/owner of the startups http://afridex.net (index of African businesses), http://gosdot.com (web development firm), and http://appfrica.org (conferences, social development).