Invited Talks and Presentations

  1. The End User Voice in Internet Policy; University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (Public Lecture, 2023)
  2. DC-IoT Progressing Global Good Practice for the Internet of Things; Internet Governance Forum (2023)
  3. Smart Cities, AI, and Community Internet; UN General Assembly Side Event (2023)
  4. IoT: Usable by Design, Closing the Gap; Africa Internet Governance Forum (2023)
  5. Parliamentary Track – Contributing to Internet governance processes: The key role of parliamentarians in shaping the digital space, Africa Internet Governance Forum (2023)
  6. Progressing Core Internet Values and Global Good Practice for the Internet of Things, European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG, 2023)
  7. The EU AI Act and Voices from the Global South (Bonn, Germany) (2023)
  8. Protecting Shared Computation – Cloud Computing;, Internet Governance Forum (IGF) (2022)
  9. Don’t forget machines are also physical: the material impacts of AI on sustainable development. RightsCon; Virtual (Jun 2022)
  10. Protecting the Rights of Registrants and End Users for a Secure and Stable DNS. ICANN73; Virtual (Mar 2022)
  11. Mozilla Festival (MozFest) (2 sessions: A Zine for more Sustainable Food Systems and MozFest Zine Fair!); Virtual (Mar 2022)
  12. Main Session: Economic and Social Inclusion and Human Rights. IGF; Virtual (Dec 2021) 
  13. Diversity and Inclusion panel. AIS (2:14:00 – 4:04.47); Virtual (May 2021) 
  14. The future of ICANN’s mandate and the development of the DNS: Voices of the Next Generation. ICANN70; Virtual (2021)
  15. At-Large Capacity Building Webinar: Internet of Things (IoT). DNS and the IoT: Impact on Communities, End Users, Opportunities and Challenges (Dec 2020)
  16. The 3rd Carnegie Mellon University Open Science Symposium. Openness for Internet Policy and Building Equity (2020)
  17. Keynote: Digital Literacy & Infrastructure Development & Access; Africa Higher Education Research Institute (AHERI); Virtual (Oct 2020)
  18. Journey to Design Research, PechaKucha Night Dundee Vol. 26. Creative Dundee (Feb 2020)
  19. IoT for the Community by the Community. ThingsCon; Rotterdam, Netherlands (Dec 2019)
  20. Main Session: Applying Human Rights and Ethics in Responsible Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence. IGF; Berlin, Germany (Nov 2019)
  21. Co-Organiser: Artificial Intelligence readiness for the Sustainable Development Goals. IGF; Berlin, Germany (Nov 2019)
  22. Co-Facilitator: Feminist research for a healthy Internet? MozFest; London, UK (Oct 2019) 
  23. Session Chair: Does Localisation Matter? eLearning Africa; Kigali, Rwanda (Sep 2018)
  24. Internet Performance in Africa. M-Lab 10 Year Anniversary Event; Washington, DC (Aug 2018)
  25. Global Indigenous Ambassador Program at ICANN: Including new voices to Internet policy dialogues. RightsCon; Toronto, Canada (May 2018)
  26. Internet performance in Africa: a throughput, latency, and content hosting analysis. AIS; Dakar, Senegal (May 2018)
  27. Internet Governance Forum (IGF); Geneva, Switzerland (Dec 2017)
    • Redefining Rights for a Gender Inclusive Networked Future
    • Open Source: Defending Freedoms in the Digital Future
    • Co-organiser: Data is the New Oil”: Shaping the Digital Economy of MENA
    • Digital Activists Are Shaping the Evolution of the Internet: the Voice of Civil Society in ICANN.
  28. The NREN Journey: Perspectives from Uganda (3 presentations – RENU Network, Capacity Building & Africa Special Interest Group). Internet2 Global Summit; Washington, D.C. (Aug 2017)
  29. Child Online Protection. ICANN55; Marrakech, Morocco (Mar 2016)
  30. Is Open Source Software a Viable Soltuion to Better ICT Infrastructure in Academic Institutions? eLearning Africa; Kampala, Uganda (2014)

Interviews

  1. Guest speaker: Fraud and Identity Theft; BBC Money Daily (9 Jun 2021)
  2. Podcast: Studying the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on local communities with James Mullarkey; We Don’t Stream (24 Sep 2020)
BBC Interview