Nanjira Sambuli (born in 1988) is a Kenyan researcher, writer, policy analyst and strategist interested in and working on understanding the unfolding, gendered impacts of ICT adoption on governance, media, entrepreneurship and culture.

Nanjira Sambuli
Born
Nanjira Sambuli

1988 (age 35–36)
EducationUniversity of Nairobi
OccupationTech Policy and Governance Analyst

Education

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Sambuli holds a bachelor's degree in actuarial science from the University of Nairobi.

Career

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Nanjira is a Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,[1] and a Ford Global Fellow.[2] She is also President and co-Chair of the Transform Health Coalition,[3] a board member at The New Humanitarian,[4] Development Gateway[5] and Digital Impact Alliance[6] (DIAL) and a Commissioner on the Lancet & Financial Times Global Commission (Governing Health Futures 2030[7]).

Nanjira also sits on several advisory boards, including the World Economic Forum’s Technology and Social Justice Initiatives, ⟨A+⟩ Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms[8] and the Carnegie Council’s AI and Equality Initiative.[9] Additionally, she is a Diplomacy Moderator at the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA).[10]

Nanjira has served as a Senior Policy Manager and previously as the Digital Equality Advocacy Manager at the World Wide Web Foundation.[11][12] 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).[13]

Works

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Sambuli 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.[14]

Sambuli developed a framework for accessing the viability, verification and validity of Crowdsourcing, Umati, an online dangerous speech monitoring project.[further explanation needed] 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.[15]

Awards and Recognitions

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  • 2019 - She was named in the list of BBC 100 Women.[16][17]
  • 2016 - She was named one of the New African Magazine's 100 Most Influential Africans

References

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  1. ^ "Nanjira Sambuli". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  2. ^ "The Ford Global Fellowship". Ford Foundation. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Home". Transform Health. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  4. ^ "About Us". The New Humanitarian. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Our Board – Development Gateway – Data and digital solutions for international development". Development Gateway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Our Board". Digital Impact Alliance. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Governing health futures 2030 - The Lancet and Financial Times Commission | Nanjira Sambuli". Governing health futures 2030. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Advisory Board". aplusalliance.org. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Board of Advisors - Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative". Carnegie Council Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  10. ^ "GESDA - Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator | GESDA - Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator". gesda.global. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Nanjira Sambuli". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  12. ^ The Bigger Deal (14 December 2017). "On The Back Seat With Sunny #8: Nanjira Sambuli". YouTube. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  13. ^ "Event Details: Speaker Bio | Omidyar Network". www.omidyar.com. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Women's Rights Online". World Wide Web Foundation. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Femme the Future: Kenyan Digital Equality Advocate Nanjira Sambuli takes on Global Digital Cooperation - This Is Africa". This Is Africa. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  16. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 16 October 2019.
  17. ^ "Greta Thunberg and Dina Asher-Smith among BBC list of 100 most inspiring women". The Independent. 16 October 2019. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2019.