Jonathan Gosier
Dir
SwiftRiver
Jonathan Gosier is a designer, software developer, and social entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of Appfrica/Hive Colab a business accelerator and incubator for East African Startups. He is currently also the Director of Swiftly.org, a platform for making sense of streams of realtime data. Jon Gosier is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, is a TED Senior Fellow, and TEDxOrganizer. In 2009 Jon spoke at TEDGlobal in Oxford about his company Appfrica and one of their projects which connected rural African villages with the internet. The service, in collaboration with nonprofit OpenMind, was called QuestionBox and allowed people with no access to the internet to ask questions and get timely, vetted answers. Prior to working as a software developer, Jon worked in the Film and Music industries. He attended Savannah College of Art and Design and University of Georgia.