Dorcas Owinoh is a Tech Community Enabler & an Entrepreneur.

She is the director and a founding member of the LakeHub Foundation, a technology and social innovation hub that aims to decentralize access to technology, growing entrepreneurship, and social innovation. Through LakeHub, Dorcas has created an open and supportive space where young and talented developers, creatives, entrepreneurs and social innovators in western Kenya meet to network, learn from each other, brainstorm, and find solutions to different challenges.

Her work and mentorship on this program has empowered over 600 young girls whom are girls aged between 13 and 19 years old to successfully build mobile apps aimed at providing solutions to health, equality, education, gender, and environment issues.

One of the Startup’s biggest successes was in 2017 when a group of girls from LakeHub were the only team picked to represent Africa at the 2017 Technovation Challenge, sponsored by Google, Verizon and the United Nations in Silicon Valley, US.

Dorcas believes that African girls are key global players in the fourth industrial revolution & is passionate about training young girls on how to create solutions for their own challenges especially using technology.

She has been recognized a number of times for her great work. She received the Award for “African Of the Year” at Abuja last year & was also named in the Forbes 30 under 30, tech catergory 2019.