Ory Okolloh Quotes

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

I'm a big proponent of mandatory computer science education. I think the first step is educating policymakers that technology is changing the way that we live and work, and it's happening so fast.

More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

The remote area today is more proximate to economic potential. A fiber-optic cable can go where no road or rail ever has.

The global economy and its technologies can be hugely liberating for those in a position to take advantage of them.

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

Afghanistan is developing its infrastructure to come up with a new direction of connectivity through energy transmission and modernisation of transport sector in an effort to cater to needs of modern day age.

It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

The Internet and digital technologies can and will boost economic, social, and political development, including by vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of speech and expression, which is key to empowering human rights.

The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.