Nanjira Sambuli

Nanjira Sambuli (born in 1988) is a Kenyan researcher, writer, policy analyst, advocacy strategist who works to understand the intersection of information and communications technology (ICT) adoption with governance, media, entrepreneurship, and culture. Nanjira is a board member at Digital Impact Alliance, Development Gateway and The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News). She is also a Commissioner on the Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing Up in a Digital World.[1]

Nanjira Sambuli
Born
Nanjira Sambuli

1988 (age 32–33)
Kenya
EducationUniversity of Nairobi
OccupationTech Policy and Governance Analyst

Education

Sambuli holds a bachelors degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Nairobi (2011).

Career

Nanjira has served as a Senior Policy Manager and previously as the Digital Equality Advocacy Manager at the World Wide Web Foundation.[2][3] 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).[4]

Works

Nanjira 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. https://webfoundation.org/our-work/projects/womens-rights-online/

Nanjira developed a framework for accessing the viability, verification and validity of Crowdsourcing, Umati, an online dangerous speech monitoring project. 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.[5]

Awards and Recognitions
  • 2016 - She was named one of the New African Magazine's 100 Most Influential Africans

References
  1. "This Is Me". Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  2. "Nanjira Sambuli". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  3. The Bigger Deal (2017-12-14). "On The Back Seat With Sunny #8: Nanjira Sambuli". Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  4. "Event Details: Speaker Bio | Omidyar Network". www.omidyar.com. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  5. "Femme the Future: Kenyan Digital Equality Advocate Nanjira Sambuli takes on Global Digital Cooperation - This Is Africa". This Is Africa. 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  6. "BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 16 October 2019.
  7. "Greta Thunberg and Dina Asher-Smith among BBC list of 100 most inspiring women". The Independent. 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
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