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Wakabi has led and coordinated ICT policy research across various countries in east and southern Africa. As Executive Director at CIPESA, he continues leading policy research and driving efforts for cohesive approaches in advocating for online rights and for the use of ICT in democratic processes and civic participation, and in promoting the right to information. He holds an MSc in Informatics (Örebro University, Sweden) and an M.A in Journalism & Media Studies (Rhodes University, South Africa) and a PhD in informatics with a specialisation in e-Government at Örebro University.Wakabi has also been involved in various collaborative researches with African, Asian and North American think tanks and NGOs.

Ashnah is the Programmes Officer at CIPESA. She holds an MSc in Informatics with a major in Electronic Government (Örebro University, Sweden) and a BSc in Computer and Management Sciences (University of Warwick, United Kingdom). Ashnah’s work experience is from a wide range of industries (in the UK, Spain and Uganda), from mobile telecommunications and engineering, to public relations and corporate relations, research, learning management, and information systems management.

Ahmed has worked as a multimedia journalist since 2012 with a focus on reports about Egyptian social and current affairs for online media. He has won international awards in the field of photography from UNESCO and UNAOC.
He studied mass media and journalism at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.

Lindsay has been the Senior Programme Manager, Open Technology Fund (OTF) since 2014. She previously worked for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), focusing on how NDI and its partners can safeguard their data and communications in their projects to ensure government accountability as well as monitor elections and other political processes.

In addition, Lindsay also worked for Freedom House’s Internet Freedom program, where she worked with human rights activists on efforts to counteract censorship and surveillance as well as strengthen Internet governance and policy. Lindsay received her Master’s degree, focusing on Technology in International Affairs, from the George Washington University.

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.