Linet Kwamboka is the Founder and CEO of DataScience LTD, a data analytics company that is focused on using data to drive innovation and discover intelligent insights about people, products &services within government, civil society and private sector. She is on the forefront of coordinating the Kenya Open Data Initiative and the Open Government Partnership for the Government of Kenya and previously at the World Bank (World Bank Spot Award recipient) and is also consulting for Development initiatives on the Open Data and Data Revolution agenda. She has also been a Software Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University’s Miti Health.

Linet has an under-graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Nairobi among other self taught qualifications especially in GIS and data analysis and mining tools within the MIT Open Course Ware program, with a keen focus on the awareness of using data for business intelligence, decision making, resource allocation and development.

She is a recognized unsung hero by the American Embassy in Kenya in her efforts to encourage more women into the technology and computing space.