Richard is a member of the core Outbox Hub data team and also a Senior Technical Lead at Medic. Prior to that, he worked for Google in Dublin, Ireland as a data engineer on the spam team, as well as at Google in Nairobi, Kenya, where he helped launch the first Google offices in Africa.
Richard holds a degree in Computer science from Makerere University and has lived and worked in Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana.
Henry is the founding National Coordinator of Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring (ACFIM) – a consortium of CSOs that banded together to foster transparency and accountability in financing of political and electoral processes in Uganda. He specialises in
governance; accountability; project design, evaluation and reviews. His 18 year career has seen him work with the New Vision Printing and Publishing Corporation and WBS Television following which he turned to civil society activism.
He holds an MA in Public Administration and Management, a BA degree in Political Science and Public Administration, and a myriad of post graduate certificates in varied disciplines.
Lydia is a digital/data journalist who currently writes for Quartz, an international business news site, is the programme officer for data journalism & research at the African Centre for Media Excellence and the data curator for www.data.ug, the home of Uganda’s open data. She also writes the eclectic blog: Of Course I Have Issues. She holds a masters degree in data journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
David Kaiza is a Ugandan writer and journalist, who joined the media in 1994. David has worked for a number of years at the former Uganda Television and for an extensive period at The East African newspaper, as a reporter at large, but also as an arts and literary critic.He has worked in Kenya as literary editor for Kwani, as well as editor of the online arts magazine, African colours. He is currently involved in arts and cultural development.