Kenyan Blogger Ory Okolloh has been hired by Google to oversee that company's policy in Africa.Most people outside the continent imagine Africa as being the size of a France or two. (In reality it's the size of the U.S., China, Japan and most of Europe.) So it's a big job for a big company that has big plans over a big area of the world.Okolloh seems like a good candidate to handle such a job. A Harvard-educated attorney, she was involved in the global blogging project Global Voices early on and is the co-founder of crisis mapping outfit Ushahidi and a TED Fellow. She steps down from Ushahidi as Executive Director to take the Google job.
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