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SUMMARY:Year of Global Africa: Eye on Africa - James Odede
DESCRIPTION:
 Odede will share his journey of creating the ecosystem 
 of technologists, entrepreneurs and 
 investors from a grassroot approach while using 
 low resources.\n
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 	Bio \n
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 	James is a Kenyan 
 technologist and a serial entrepreneur. The 
 co-founder and director of LakeHub, Odede 
 has brought together the tech community of Western 
 Kenya, raised funding from Google, overseen 
 the implementation of a Computer Science 
 for High School students program and built the 
 region's first co-working space.\n
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 	A graduate 
 of Maseno University with a Bsc. in Computer 
 Science, Odede is passionate about technology 
 for social development, technology start-ups, 
 clean energy and committed to bridging 
 the technology gap that exists between Africa's 
 big cities and rural. Odede is an Acumen 
 Fellow and a Mandela Washington Fellow. In 2015, 
 he was awarded the top 100 most influential 
 people in Kenyan technology scene by iHub.\n
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 Contact name: Ann Biersteker\n
LOCATION:Rm 201 International Center
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