ABOUT
Sara Wahedi is the CEO and Founder of Ehtesab, Afghanistan’s first civic technology startup. Ehtesab has been providing real-time security and city service alerts through the ‘Ehtesab App’ to Kabul residents since June 2020 and is expanding to three major cities across the country by the end of this year. Earlier this year, she was named one of TIME Magazine’s ’Next Generation Leaders’, BBC’s ‘100 Women of 2022’, and is a 2022 semi-finalist for MIT Technology Review’s ‘Innovators under 35’ list for her work in democratising access to information for Afghans. Sara previously worked at the Office of the President of Afghanistan, responsible for supporting social development policy and projects across the country. She is currently completing her studies in Data Science and Human Rights at Columbia University.