iHub By Erik Hersman / March 3, 2010
Welcoming Jessica Colaço: iHub Manager
I’m very excited to announce that someone who has a long history in the tech space in Nairobi is coming on board to help manage the iHub. Jessica Colaço is the new iHub manager as of this month. She’s in charge of operations and will be the main point of contact at the space.
Jessica has been a very active member of the Nairobi tech community over the years, putting on events and engaging both students and professionals at many levels in her role at Strathmore Research and Consultancy Centre. She’s also a TED Fellow and was named by ‘Business Daily’ as one of the top 40, under 40 years of age women in Kenya’s business scene.
“My goal is to put Kenya on the map as the hub for ICT in Africa.” – Jessica Colaço
Jessica is a coder, she’s a great Java programmer in her own right, but has since moved on to the research fields. Here at the iHub, besides the normal operational work, she’ll continue working on research and will communicate with universities about how they connect to the greater tech community in Nairobi.
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12 Comments
Wainaina at 02:31:51AM Thursday, March 4, 2010
Congratulations to Jessica and the iHub team
ReplyAaron Kalikawe at 04:26:34AM Thursday, March 4, 2010
Congratulations Jess!
Glad to know we an ambitious lady at the helm of iHub.
Ready to help anyway I can to you achieve this goal.
ReplyMbugua Njihia at 08:28:08AM Thursday, March 4, 2010
Kudos jess!
ReplyKenyaChristian at 08:44:26AM Thursday, March 4, 2010
Congrats to her! I’m sure she’ll do a great job.
ReplyNick Hargreaves at 12:19:11PM Thursday, March 4, 2010
class WelcomingJessicaReply {
Replypublic static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Congrats Jessy! Looking foward to working with you.”); }
}
Erik Hersman at 16:49:23PM Thursday, March 4, 2010
lol @Nick… that’s classic!
Replyjessica at 18:29:46PM Thursday, March 4, 2010
class ThankUNick {
Replypublic static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Thanks Nick!”); }
}
Ngeny at 10:09:44AM Friday, March 5, 2010
Congrats Jessica, looking forward to good things!!
ReplyZack at 09:44:36AM Monday, March 8, 2010
Congratulations, Am confident you will take Kenya ICT into a diff level as for the Young upcoming geeks…
ReplyAll tha best
Chepken at 17:49:19PM Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I liked Erik Hersman code of welcoming Jessica, it reminds me of the day she was doing my sockets assignment; Congrats Jessica put Kenya where it belongs.
ReplyRobadnik says sonic must D.I.E at 09:17:26AM Thursday, April 8, 2010
uuhm,Jess,here is my one two in php
class Welcome_jess extends Controller
{
Replyfunction __construct()
{
parent::Controller();
}
function ihub()
{
$this->load->library(‘welcoming song’);
echo “$welcome_on_board ,ihub rocks and Master Robadnik likes it,$lollest”;
}
}
SME Network at 14:27:22PM Monday, October 4, 2010
Great work and looking forward to meeting you at the i-hub
Reply