Democratizing Legal Information Across Africa: An Inside Look at Digitizing Local Content

Abigail Steinberg, Peres Were and Amolo Ng'weno
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Abigail Steinberg: Abigail Steinberg is a strategist at Digital Divide Data (DDD), and her work spans their offices in New York, Kenya, Cambodia, and Laos. She has worked in international development and at social impact ventures. She previously worked for Purpose Global, and for the Global Social Stock Exchange in South Africa. While working in London, she reported to a member of Parliament, and drafted policies and briefings.
Peres Were: Peres Were is managing the African Law Library project on behalf of DDD. She is a consultant in the IT-enabled services (ITES) industry, and has worked in the business process outsourcing sector in the UK and Kenya. She helped to set up ITES firms for investors in Kenya and advised the prime minister on developing the country's ITES sector. In 2009, Were was named one of Kenya's top 40 business women under age 40 by the Business Daily. She was a researcher on a BPO study of Kenya, and her articles on the ITES industry have been published by the leading regional business media.
Amolo Ng'weno: Amolo Ng'weno is the Managing Director of Digital Divide Data Kenya, DDD's inaugural African venture. She previously worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as Deputy Director of the Financial Services for the Poor team, which aims to improve the financial services available to the poor in developing countries. Amolo also served as COO of the Trust for African Rock Art, and was a co-founder of Africa Online, East Africa's first Internet provider.

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2014, vol. 9, issue 3-4, 103-111

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Date: 2014
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