Data enthusiast, quantitative data analytics specialist. Yazmin completed her PhD in Politics at The University of Edinburgh in 2022 and holds a Master’s in Political Science with a speciality in electoral politics from the Central European University (CEU). She also graduated with a BA from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico with Honours in Communication Sciences. Her PhD focused on comparing attitudes towards online privacy and political culture in Mexico and Spain. Yazmin’s research contributes to understanding privacy attitudes-behaviours by integrating the relationship between political culture and privacy and considering contextual integrity.

Allen Muyaama Mukhwana is the Research Systems Manager at The African Academy of Sciences (www.aasciences.ac.ke). She is responsible for the Research Management Programme (ReMPRO Africa) which seeks to build the expertise necessary to create and sustain robust research enterprise and environments by addressing systemic level challenges at institutions in African. She was previously Centre Manager for the Makerere University/Uganda Virus Research Institute Centre of Excellence for Infection & Immunity Research and Training (MUII-plus) http://www.muii.org.ug . She was responsible for setting up management systems for the centre and service the partnerships and collaborations. Prior, Allen was the Senior Research Administrator and Head of Capacity Building the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), College of Health Sciences, Makerere University (https://www.idi-makerere.com). Whilst at IDI she established the research systems and support functions and developed the governance framework. Her work has spanned academia, industry and the NGO sector and has vast experience engaging with local and international partners.

former UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab fellow

Raymond Onuoha is a Research Fellow at the Lagos Business School, Nigeria, where his research focuses on the institutional and policy challenges in the evolution of the digital economy and technology innovation in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Sahara Africa. He led the certification strategy team of the Jobberman Alpha Digital Project in 2016, and also was a lead participant of the Africa Digital course, in collaboration with the Centre for Global Enterprises (CGE), New York, USA. He has worked on policy research collaborations between the Lagos Business School and the Research ICT Africa (RIA) on projects that entailed rigorous engagements with policy makers and the multi-stakeholdership within the ICT ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa, proffering stakeholder-agreeable outcomes. He is currently engaging policymakers and stakeholders in the digital ecosystem in understanding the gaps in the creative and agricultural sectors of Nigeria on how the internet can enable job creation and access to finance. Asides several policy and industry project reports, Raymond co-authored the paper – Platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Startup Models and the role of Business Incubation, which was published by the Journal of Intellectual Capital in 2018. Raymond is a doctoral student at the Nelson Mandela School of Governance, University of Cape Town, South Africa where his thesis interrogates platform competition policy in the multi-sided telecommunications market, and its investment and innovation imperatives for social welfare in developing economies. He had previous academic backgrounds in Physics, Economics and Statistics from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, and the University of Benin respectively, both in Nigeria.