Nanjira Sambuli (born in 1988) is a Kenyan researcher, writer, policy analyst and strategist interested in and working on understanding the unfolding, gendered impacts of ICT adoption on governance, media, entrepreneurship and culture.
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| Born | Nanjira Sambuli 1988 (age 35–36) |
| Education | University of Nairobi |
| Occupation | Tech Policy and Governance Analyst |
Education
editSambuli holds a bachelor's degree in actuarial science from the University of Nairobi.
Career
editNanjira is a Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,[1] and a Ford Global Fellow.[2] She is also President and co-Chair of the Transform Health Coalition,[3] a board member at The New Humanitarian,[4] Development Gateway[5] and Digital Impact Alliance[6] (DIAL) and a Commissioner on the Lancet & Financial Times Global Commission (Governing Health Futures 2030[7]).
Nanjira also sits on several advisory boards, including the World Economic Forum’s Technology and Social Justice Initiatives, ⟨A+⟩ Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms[8] and the Carnegie Council’s AI and Equality Initiative.[9] Additionally, she is a Diplomacy Moderator at the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA).[10]
Nanjira has served as a Senior Policy Manager and previously as the Digital Equality Advocacy Manager at the World Wide Web Foundation.[11][12] Nanjira Sambuli was the former Research Lead and Research Manager at iHub in Nairobi between 2013 and 2016. She has spoken at a number of conferences and events about digital equality and digital policies, including re:publica 2019, rp:Accra 2018, Open Up 2016 and the African Summit on Women and Girls in Technology. Nanjira is a member of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation and served as a deputy on the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel for Women's Economic Empowerment (2016–17).[13]
Works
editSambuli led the Women's Rights Online work at the Web Foundation, that comprises a network of gender and digital rights organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America.[14]
Sambuli developed a framework for accessing the viability, verification and validity of Crowdsourcing, Umati, an online dangerous speech monitoring project.[further explanation needed] This project currently runs in Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan. She has worked publications on a range of issues including Kenya's Media Policy and Civic Tech Landscape.
She is the editor of Innovative Africa. She also occasionally writes a column for the Daily Nation newspaper in Kenya and international press.
In 2018, she was invited by António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General to join the High- Level Panel on Digital Cooperation.[15]
Awards and Recognitions
edit- 2019 - She was named in the list of BBC 100 Women.[16][17]
- 2016 - She was named one of the New African Magazine's 100 Most Influential Africans
References
edit- ^ "Nanjira Sambuli". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "The Ford Global Fellowship". Ford Foundation. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Home". Transform Health. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "About Us". The New Humanitarian. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Our Board – Development Gateway – Data and digital solutions for international development". Development Gateway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Our Board". Digital Impact Alliance. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Governing health futures 2030 - The Lancet and Financial Times Commission | Nanjira Sambuli". Governing health futures 2030. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Advisory Board". aplusalliance.org. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Board of Advisors - Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative". Carnegie Council Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "GESDA - Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator | GESDA - Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator". gesda.global. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Nanjira Sambuli". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ The Bigger Deal (14 December 2017). "On The Back Seat With Sunny #8: Nanjira Sambuli". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "Event Details: Speaker Bio | Omidyar Network". www.omidyar.com. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "Women's Rights Online". World Wide Web Foundation. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Femme the Future: Kenyan Digital Equality Advocate Nanjira Sambuli takes on Global Digital Cooperation - This Is Africa". This Is Africa. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Greta Thunberg and Dina Asher-Smith among BBC list of 100 most inspiring women". The Independent. 16 October 2019. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2019.