Two Kenyans among top digital advocates

Linet Kwamboka, founder and CEO of DataScience Ltd, a company that uses data to yield intelligent insights about people and products. She is one of the two Kenyans named among world’s 100 most influential people in digital government. FILE PHOTO | NATION

Two Kenyans have been named among world’s 100 most influential people in digital government, a list that also features Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, founder of the World Wide Web Tim Berners Lee and e-commerce pioneer and digital advocate Martha Lane Fox.

Philip Thigo, the Lead on Data and Innovation at the Office of the Deputy President and Linet Kwamboka, the founder and CEO of DataScience Ltd, a company that uses data to yield intelligent insights about people and products, were part of the inaugural list of people recognised for their role in digital transformation of governments.