Dorcas Muthoni is a Kenyan an entrepreneur, computer scientist and founder of OPENWORLD LTD (http://www.openworld.co.ke/), a software consulting company she started at the age of 24. OPENWORLD is now a leading e-Government and Business Software Services firm in the Eastern Africa region. She received the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology's Change Agent award in 2008.

OPENWORLD has been involved in the delivery of some most widely used Web and cloud applications in Africa, such as ARIS, an African Union reporting application used by all 54 member states; the Performance Management System for the Government of Kenya, automating performance contracting in the public sector; and OpenBusiness, a revolutionary cloud-based small- and medium-size business management tool.