Anir Chowdhury is the Policy Advisor of the a2i Programmme of the ICT Division and the Cabinet Division of the Government of Bangladesh supported by the UNDP. In this capacity, he leads the formation of a whole-of-society innovation ecosystem in…
Carl works at the unit for Global Sustainable Economic Development at Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency). The overarching goal is to increase free, safe and open use of information and communication technology for development. The role combines project…
He is the founder and president at Institute of Tomorrow, a think tank that works to tackle the top-ranked challenges in East Africa in health, education, energy, peacebuilding & food security. The Institute has been selected by University of Pennsylvania…
Dr. Boutheina Guermazi is the Director of Digital Development (DD) Department of the Infrastructure Practice Group of the World Bank. She heads a global team working on building digital economies in developing countries, to drive shared prosperity and reduced poverty.…
Tom Koutsky is a Senior Connectivity Policy Advisor at the Center for Digital Development in the USAID Global Development Lab. As a member of the Digital Inclusion team, Tom works to build connected, digitally inclusive, and internet-empowered societies in USAID…
Dean Mulozi has over 20 years of work experience in rural donor aided development and micro projects worldwide. He is currently the Regional Facilitator of the Southern Africa Telecentre Network (SATNET), a regional ICT non- profit organization whose objective is…
Ms. Funke Opeke, is founder and CEO of MainOne. MainOne is a broadband infrastructure services provider that built West Africa’s first privately owned submarine cable system interconnecting Lagos, Nigeria; Accra, Ghana; and Seixal, Portugal in 2010. In January 2015, the…