nationality name birth_date known_for article_title birth_name occupation
american jon gosier 33 2015 mar 15 ushahidi , appfrica , apps4africa jon gosier
 jonathan d. gosier software developer , philanthropist
jon gosier

jonathan d. `` jon '' gosier -lrb- born 1981 or 1982 -rrb- is an african-american software developer , investor , and philanthropist .
he was named as one of ten african tech voices to follow on twitter by cnn and one of the 25 most influential african-americans in technology by business insider .
he was awarded a ted fellowship in 2009 and later named a ted senior fellow .
jon is knight news challenge award winner for abayima which makes crisis communications technology for disasters .
in 2013 gosier was nominated as one of three innovators of the year by black enterprise magazine for his work with data startup metalayer .
