A designer, software developer, lover of data science and the co-founder of metaLayer which creates apps that enable users to contextualize the mobile and social web.  From 2009 to 2011 he served as Director of Product for SwiftRiver at Ushahidi working on an open-source platform for drowing insight from real-time content. The SwiftRiver project was awarded the 2011 Knight News Challenge award for its potential to improve the data journalism and news gathering process.

In 2009 Jon spoke at TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK about his company Appfrica and one of their projects which connected rural African villages with the internet through a call center.  The service, in collaboration with non-profit OpenMind, was called QuestionBox and allowed people with no access to the internet to ask questions and get timely, vetted answers. Jon is a TED Senior Fellow.

Jon Gosier’s work has been profiled by a number of media outlets including the NewYorkTimes, The Economist, GigaOm, Forbes and New Scientist. 

“M-banking and mobile solutions across Africa are as transformative as the printing press was for Europe”