KISWATE FOUNDER
Mr. Pius Odhiambo
Pius Odhiambo, currently an award winning Data Scientist consultant based in Washington DC, USA was born in May 1976 in rural Kenya into a humble family. He was educated at Lwero primary school, St. Mary's Ukwala High School, Kenyatta University all in Kenya;
University of Maryland Global Campus, George Washington University in Washington DC, University of Texas at Austin, Bowie State University ; all in the United States of America.
The Kenya of his birth and youth was a post independent rural Kenya. As an adolescent , he walked to school on bare foot, lived in a grasss thatched house and drunk water from open streams / river before relocating to Nairobi, Kenya where he got his first job in a restaurant. He saw a computer for the first time when he was admitted to Kenyatta University for his Bachelor's degree. Before relocating to the United States of America he worked as high school Mathematics & Physics teacher.
He is the founder of KISWATE Scholarship Fund ( https://www.kiswate.org), the Director General of Blue Nile Analytica (https://www.bnanalytica.org) and the brain behind KISWATE Digital Academy (https://youtu.be/OTxyPetDssg?feature=shared.).
He is married with two children and he is a member of LifeSource Church For All Nations in the United States of America.
His dream is to disrupt and challenge the status quo in the teaching profession using knowledge acquired in Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science to make basic education in Kenya ( the country of his birth), accessible and affordable to deserving learners through technology and empower teachers to adapt to the disruptive digital world to fit in the learning space of the ever growing digital learners.
"We can not have a situation where learners are digitally advanced than the teachers in the school ecosystem.
This has to change and I am looking forward to seeing more qualified digital teachers now and in the foreseeable future, said Mr. Odhiambo".
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