Tag Archives: digital infrastructure accountability

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Imani is a multi-award-winning journalist, digital content creator, and media professional with over five years of experience in broadcasting, digital advocacy, and leadership. She is currently the Programs Manager for Crown TV and a Multimedia Journalist at Crown Media Tanzania, where she leads content development and audience engagement projects. At just 25, she became the youngest Station Manager at Kings FM Radio, transforming it into the leading media house in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands. Imani is also the Co-founder of Mwanga Hub, an NGO focused on empowering youth, women, and marginalized groups through digital rights and inclusion. She hosts Dig It with Imani: The Podcast, tackling issues such as digital rights and online gender-based violence. As a certified digital rights trainer with DW Akademie, she mentors journalists and collaborates with global organizations like the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Her work has earned her national recognition and multiple journalism awards

Hassan Istiila, Somalia |

Hassan Istiila is a Mogadishu-based journalist with over a decade of experience reporting for local and international media. His work focuses on migration, governance, digital divides, climate change, environmental issues, fact-checking, and the rights of marginalised communities. As Somalia undergoes a digital transformation amid deep-rooted infrastructure and information access challenges, Hassan sees journalism as a tool to promote transparency and inclusion. He is particularly interested in how Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can transform fragile states like Somalia, where systems such as national digital ID and e-governance are emerging but underreported—especially from the perspective of equity and accountability.

Through this fellowship, Hassan aims to deepen his reporting on how these digital shifts impact public service delivery and the daily lives of ordinary citizens, especially women, youth, and internally displaced people.

Milliam Murigi, Kenya |

Milliam Murigi is an accomplished science journalist recognised for her contributions to science, health, environment, agriculture, and technology reporting. With a career spanning more than a decade, she has built a reputation for delivering well-researched, solution-oriented stories that inform and inspire change. Her accolades include IGAD-ICPAC Reporting Competition on Transboundary Pests, GenBio-Africa Promotional Awards, the OFAB Media Awards (OMAs) Kenya Winner 2024, OMAs Africa Finalist, NCD Alliance Kenya Media Awards; Best Environment Cover Story Winner 2024, and Renewable Energy Awards 2018. Her work has been featured in various Kenyan publications in Kenya such as People Daily Newspaper, Sayansi Magazine, Science Africa and Alliance for Science, where she continues to shed light on critical issues affecting communities in Kenya and beyond. Beyond her writing, Milliam is actively involved in training and mentoring fellow journalists, advocating for solutions journalism, and participating in global conversations on science communication. Her passion for bridging the gap between science and society drives her to explore new ways of making complex topics relatable and actionable.

Lebon Kasamira  is a journalist, Internet governance researcher, and consultant in Digital Communications based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He previously worked at Ebuteli Research Institute, Congo

Research Group, UNICEF in DRC, Human Rights Watch, and Amani Festival. He collaborates with media outlets such as Equal Times, Al Jazeera, RFI, Congo Check, Habari RDC, Music In Africa, and The New Humanitarian, among others. He has written several feature articles, including on digital censorship and democracy in Africa, published in December 2023, for Equal Times. He holds a degree in communication for development from Lumière University of Bujumbura, is a PAYAIG (Pan-African Youth Action for Innovation and Governance) program fellow, and is a former scholarship holder in public management at the Yali Regional Leadership Centre in Dakar, Senegal.

 

Jean de Dieu Ndikumasabo is a bilingual (French-English) news reporter, fact-checker, photographer, editor, and community manager at the Burundi News Agency (ABP). He specializes in investigative journalism, focusing on underreported issues related to climate change, public health, digital transformation, and community-driven stories. He has covered key topics at the intersection of climate and health through prestigious fellowships, including the Excellence in Health Journalism Fellowship (National Press Foundation) and the African Disease Reporting Fellowship (ADRAP). His international reporting experience includes major events such as the Forum for Young African Entrepreneurs (Tony Elumelu Foundation Forum, 2019, Lagos) and the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5, 2024, Doha). In June 2025, he covered the Internet Governance Forum (IGF 25) held in Lillestrøm, Norway. Jean de Dieu has received advanced training in journalism and fact-checking from several renowned institutions, including the National Press Foundation, The World Bank, Lille School of Journalism, Radio Netherland Training Center (RNTC), Code for Africa, and PesaCheck. He is the recipient of the Pro Economic Liberty Award from CDE-Great Lakes and is an active member of the Africa Fact-checking Alliance (AFCA).