Agriculture - Co-led by Catholic Relief Services & ICRISAT
- Using digital tools to integrate point or bundled services with value chains (advice, weather, finance, etc)
- Measuring impact and gross margins at the field level with farmers
- Blending digital learning in agriculture with other learning methods and tools
- Tools to enable farmers to adapt to climate change
- How farmer organizations are using digital tools to manage production, markets and risk
- Big Data for evidence-based approaches to digital agriculture at scale – learning from failures to enhance chances of success
- Supporting smallholder farmers and engaging young farmers
- Innovation in use of drones/UAV and guidelines for regulatory frameworks
- Platforms to disintermediate agricultural supply chain
- Accepted speakers include:
-
James Obarowski Director TechnoServe Benin Rufus Idris Program Director, PLANT TechnoServe Nigeria Chris Light CTO, SVP Workgroup co-chair ICT4D Ogimaa Inc. United States Emmanuel Bakirdjian Africa Regional Director Precision Agriculture for Development Kenya Jonathan Lehe Chief Development Officer & Director of New Programs Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) United States Ami Dalal Managing Director FINCA Ventures United States Daniele Tricarico Insights Director GSMA United Kingdom Mahder Zewdie Head of Operations Awaaz.de Ethiopia Faissal SEHBAOUI In Charge of AgriEdge BU AgriEdge BU Morocco JohnCarl Dunyo Head of Product Innovation and Distribution Farmerline Limited Ghana Deepti Mathew Chief Operating Officer Ignitia Ghana Roger Akayesi Chief Operations Officer Ignitia Ghana Godwin Atser Digital Extension & Advisory Services Specialist International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Nigeria Juan Suarez Project Manager Sustainable Development GMV Spain Satish Nagaraji Senior Manager - Digital Agriculture (M&E and Tools) ICRISAT-CGIAR India Muthoni Masinde Director and Founder, ITIKI Central University of Technology, Free State South Africa Jamila Sulaiman Gezewa Programme Officer Farm Radio International Nigeria Erna Goudt Client Relationship Manager eProd Solutions Kenya Brian King Coordinator, Big Data Platform CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Colombia Nguyen Thi Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Program Manager Catholic Relief Services Vietnam Esther Barvels Consultant GFA Consulting Group GmbH Germany Berber Kramer Research Fellow International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Kenya Lava Kumar Head, Germplasm Health/Virology International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Nigeria Nafissatou Cisse Associate Product Manager myAgro Senegal Elijah Egwu Senoir Program Manager Catholic Relief Services Benin Pamela Bella Nyamutoka Katooro Africa Regional Director International Institute of rural Reconstruction Uganda Babacar Faye ICT In Program Specialist Oxfam in Senegal Senegal Ea Chaillioux VP Global Ecosystem Engagement IDEMIA France Brianna Schuyler Lead Data Scientist Fenix International France Victor Ladele Innovation Specialist – Head of Exploration UNDP Accelerator Lab for the Pacific UNDP Fiji Lydia Odeh Director of Programs, Nigeria Viamo Nigeria Anastasia Mirzoyants Regional Director of Knowledge and Learning Shujaaz, Mirzoyants Management Consulting Kenya Zacharia Muindi Lead Mapper Map Kibera Kenya Mariela Machado Program Manager of Operations Engineering for change United States Amos Olertey Wussah Senior Consultant, Corporate Services Farmerline Limited Ghana SATISH PILLARISETTI Executive Director Sa-Dhan India Matt Roberts-Davies General Manager M-Changa & Thundafund Kenya Daniel Asare-Kyei Chief Executive officer Esoko Ghana
Digital Diversity - Led by Plan International
- Technology as an enabler to digital empowerment and bridging of digital divisions: mitigating tendency for technology to reinforce existing power imbalances and inequalities
- Audit of tools in terms of gender and inclusion before they are deployed
- Tools and approaches to increase the role of women in open source community and partnerships
- Ethical AI – engaging and developing tools with girls in mind
- Human and people centered design as the main trend to improve inclusivity in ICT4D and the application of the Principles for Digital Development
- Making online world a more equal, safe and inclusive place for everyone
- Accepted speakers include
Digital Diversity Gayatri Jayal Director of Consumer Innovations Dimagi India Alexandra Tyers Gender and Innovation Specialist UNICEF Malaysia Rabiul Chowdhury Head of IT & ICT4D Plan International Bangladesh Olga Acosta Technology & Strategy Director Plan International Colombia Rebecca Firth Director of Community & Partnerships Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Peru Jenchat Bishen Global Tech Specialist GIRL EFFECT Nigeria Revi Sterling Director - USAID WomenConnect Challenge DAI United States Fatima Ibrahim Equal Access International John Zoltner Senior Director, Technology for Development and Innovation Save the Children United States Bola Tinubu Cece Yara Foundation Jenny Thornton Internet Watch Foundation David Wright UK Safer Internet Centre Cecille Villena Digital Development Project Officer Plan International Philippines Steve DiPangrazio Save the Children US Sandra Aceng Gender and Program Officer Advocacy ICTWomen of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) Uganda Dhanaraj Thakur Director of Research World Wide Web Foundation United States Barnaby Willitts-King Senior Research Fellow ODI United Kingdom Isabella Di Paolo Consultant Coffey International Development United Kingdom
Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI) - Led by Mercy Corps
- Transition from pilot to towards collaboration on solutions at scale with lasting and meaningful impact
- Using Human/People Centered Design and the Principles for Digital Development to approach DFI and digital empowerment of women and underserved populations
- Tools and skills for basic digital and financial literacy
- DFI for smallholder farmers
Digital infrastructure to support DFI – connectivity, power/electricity, liquidity, agent networks - Making the value proposition compelling for the user
- Emerging technologies to support DFI – blockchain, AI/ML, cloud based
- Digitizing traditional financial systems
- Multilateral engagement and collaboration with the private sector
- Accepted speakers include
Nafissatou Cisse Associate Product Manager myAgro Senegal Elijah Egwu Senior Program Manager Catholic Relief Services Benin Pamela Bella Nyamutoka Katooro Africa Regional Director International Institute of rural Reconstruction Uganda Babacar Faye ICT In Program Specialist Oxfam in Senegal Senegal Ea Chaillioux VP Global Ecosystem Engagement IDEMIA France Terry Schuyler Lead Data Scientist Fenix Uganda France Victor Ladele Innovation Specialist – Head of Exploration UNDP Accelerator Lab for the Pacific UNDP Fiji Johannes Ebert CEO Gravity.Earth France Lydia Odeh Director of Programs, Nigeria Viamo Nigeria Anastasia Mirzoyants Regional Director of Knowledge and Learning Shujaaz, Mirzoyants Management Consulting Kenya Zacharia Muindi Lead Mapper Map Kibera Kenya Mariela Machado Program Manager of Operations Engineering for change United States Amos Olertey Wussah Senior Consultant, Corporate Services Farmerline Limited Ghana SATISH PILLARISETTI Executive Director Sa-Dhan India Matt Roberts-Davies General Manager M-Changa & Thundafund Kenya Daniel Asare-Kyei Chief Executive officer Esoko Ghana
Digital Development in Nigeria
We particularly welcome submissions from Nigerian-based organizations and individuals highlighting meaningful and practical examples of ICT4D across any of the themes for the 12thICT4D Conference.
Education and Digital Literacy - Co-led by Save the Chidren & Catholic Relief Services
- ICT solutions to support displaced people
- Evaluation and monitoring tools
- Exploring critical success and failure factors in ICT4D in Ed at scale up, user experience
- IT training and digital literacy
- Exploring the design/intervention relationship
- Accepted speakers include
Julie Clugage Executive Director Team4Tech United States chinedu ohanyido Senior Evidence Manager Girl Effect Nigeria Alpha Sennon Founder and Executive Director WHYFARM Trinidad and Tobago Susan Stasi CEO Rose Academies United States John Zoltner Senior Director, Technology for Development and Innovation Save the Children United States Eladio Sanchez ICT4D Officer MGD Intibuca Catholic Relief Services Honduras Ruxana Parvin Sr. Manager Save the Children Bangladesh Pranav Kothari Vice President, Large Scale Education Programmes Educational Initiatives India Fatema Ismailjee Human-Centered Design Consultant Ubongo Learning Tanzania Hillary Eason Manager, Knowledge, Innovation, and Technology Chemonics International United States Cavin Mugarura CEO Blue Node Media Uganda Samuel Musungwini Lecturer Midlands State University Zimbabwe Edward Tohom MSc. Catholic Relief Services Guatemala Sawsan Issa Livelihoods Coordinator, IRC Jordan International Rescue Committee Jordan Apurva Chandra Program Manager Microsoft United States Rogeema Kenny Project Lead The Bookery Code South Africa Andrew Abu Founder/president Young Innovators of Nigeria Social Organisation Nigeria Victoria Cooper Chief of Party Chemonics International Liberia Kent Mcneill Chief Technology Officer Bridge International Academies Nigeria Carrie Bauer Instructional Designer Education for Humanity - Arizona State University United States
Health and Nutrition - Led by Catholic Relief Services
- Digital tools for improved service delivery
- Artificial intelligence: advances, uses and potential
- Health supply chain management – critical link in achieving health outcomes: perspectives, challenges and trends.
- ICT4D and SBC: How do end-users interact with ICT (social media, online communities, digital storytelling, phone prompts) which change behaviours
- Lessons from success and failure in regional, cross border and horizontal collaboration with other sectors and actors
- Big data for evidence of impact at scale.
- Training and capacity building for Social Services and Healthcare Workers in responsible data and technology use
- Applications of standardization and principles to digital health programs
- Emerging technologies in healthcare and community setting
- Health Information Systems architecture
- Digital health strategies, governance structures and emerging best practices
- Accepted speakers include
Wayan Vota Digital Health Director IntraHealth US Merrick Schaefer USAID US Theresa Cullen Regenstrief Institute US Jonathan Jackson Dimagi US Matt Berg CEO Ona Systems US Alain Labrique JHU US Mridul Chowdury mPower US Peter Lubell-Dougthie Ona Systems US Binta Ismail National Project Coordinator NPHCDA Nigeria Vidya Mahadevan Bluesquare Nigeria Emmanuel Meribole Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria Muhammed Mashin NPHCDA Nigeria Thierry Octave HIS Senior Analyst DAI Haiti Nadjy Joseph DAI Haiti Nersnt Atwood Raphael DAI Haiti Stephane Morisseau USAID Haiti Roody Thermidor Haiti MSPP/UEP Haiti Leona Rosenblum Deputy Director, Center for Digital Health John Snow, Inc. United States Eyob Kebede Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia Ethiopia Alex Grigore Simprints UK Annik Willems Disease Management Program Leader Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health Belgium Ahmad Shah Sultani ICT Technical Specialist FHI 360 Afghanistan Idi Nasiru Program Officer, Media JHU CCP Nigeria Njide Ndili Country Director PharmAccess Foundation Nigeria Shivangi Kaushik Project Coordinator Welthungerhilfe India India Ananthan Srinivasan Data Technologist Cloudera Foundation US Laura Medialdea PI & Research coordinator of SAM Photo Diagnosis App Project Diagnosis App Project Action Against Hunger Spain Grace F. Nasya Masela Health Information System Coordinator Wahana Visi Indonesia Indonesia Randeep Sidhu Director of Emerging Markets Babylon Health UK Sebastian Manhart Chief Operating Officer Simprints United Kingdom Alexandra Grigore Chief Product Officer Simprints United Kingdom Katherine Lew Senior Manager, Product Liaison BAO Systems United States Charles Nzelu Nigerian FMOH (Nat'l AIDS Control Prog) Nigeria Erica Troncoso Technical Advisor, Digital Health / Innovations Jhpeigo United States Darlene Irby Jhpiego United States Rebecca Litner Program Manager D-tree International United States Flavia Lubega Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Infectious Diseases Institute Uganda Robert Kanwagi Program Coordinator World Vision Sierra Leone Andrew Karlyn Chief Impact Officer Living Goods Kenya Leah Ng'aari Service Designer Medic Mobile Kenya Aika Matemu Creative Lead Dalberg Kenya Rachel Hofmann Regional Program Director D-tree International United States Brooke Partridge CEO Vital Wave United States Shreya Bhatt Asia Regional Director Medic Mobile India Mphatso Mudenda Health Information Systems Manager CDC Zambia Zambia Muhammad Salihu DHIS 2 Technical Specialist BAO systems Nigeria Dauda Sulaiman Dauda Country Director Palladium Data.Fl Nigeria Adam Preton Digital Health Advisor RTI International United States Zainab Ali Senior Manager Vector Control Catholic Relief Services Nigeria Ochayi Akoh ICT4D Officer Catholic Relief Services Nigeria
Humanitarian Response and Resilience - Co-led by Catholic Relief Services & International Rescue Committee
- Building ethical field skills in collection and management of responsible data
- Ways how humanitarians can engage with users/communities better and build shared ownership in local versions with digital technology
- How to give credit to people who are living the crisis we are trying to mitigate
- Tools - social media, online volunteering, crowd sourcing, collective intelligence, citizen generated data, role of platforms
- Emerging tools in near real time analytics (and rise of platforms & AI)
- AI/ML platforms which demonstrate an impact to make informed and effective decisions
- Multi-sectoral coordination of connectivity digital tools and energy access.
- Minimising duplication and replication of by federal and other actors
- Ethical data collection and management
- How to do work without doing digital harm?
Accepted speakers include
| Ognen | Plavevski | ICT4D Manager | Catholic Relief Services | Macedonia |
| Rahul | Singh | Executive Director | GlobalMedic | Canada |
| Erick | Ngwiri | Director of Client Solutions | Ona Kenya Ltd | Kenya |
| Gabriel | Martins | Chief of Staff | Zenysis Technologies Inc. | United States |
| Christine | Fu | Evaluation Specialist | UNHCR | Switzerland |
| Victor | Onama | Design Monitoring and Evaluation(DME) Manager | World Vision Somalia | Somalia |
| Nicholas | Oakeshott | Senior Identity Management Officer | UNHCR | Denmark |
| Cassie Jiun | Seo | Experience Designer | Norwegian Refugee Council-Digital Team | Germany |
| Lencho | Alemayehu | JEOP Project ICT4D Officer | Catholic Relief Services | Ethiopia |
| Brendan | Smith | Senior Vice President | Vital Wave | United States |
| John | Otunga | Program Manager East Africa | The Sentinel Project | Kenya |
| Rory | Crew | Finance and Systems Director | Somali Cash Consortium | Kenya |
| Maria Jose | Alexander | CRS Project Manager/Caritas Venezuela | Caritas Venezuela | Venezuela |
| Grace | Tang | Program Manager | Translators without Borders | Canada |
| Clare Sempebwa | Seruwagi | ICT4D Consultant | ICT4D Consultant | Uganda |
| Aaron | Aliu | ICT's Disaster Preparedness Fellow | American Red Cross | United States |
| Maya | Rao | Program Manager MEAL (Emergencies Department, CRS Mali) | Catholic Relief Services | Mali |
| Woubedle | Alemayehu | Director of Evaluations for Africa | Kantar | United Kingdom |
| Sara | Pressman | Officer, Global Technology Partnerships | International Rescue Committee | United States |
| Meera | Sawkar | Business Development Manager--International Development | GeoPoll | United States |
| Robert | MacTavish | Product Owner | UNICEF | United States |
| Lorenzo | Riches | Data Scientist | World Food Programme | Italy |
| Moiez | Ahmed | Regional MEAL Specialist | CARE International | Pakistan |
| Rahman | AHM Bazlur | Chief Executive Officer | Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication | Bangladesh |
| Bonnie | Chiu | Co-Founder and Team Lead | Humanity Data Systems | United Kingdom |
Responsible Data and Information Security - Co-led by NetHope & World Vision International
- Building training into project design how to collect, use and manage data responsibly
- Approaches, guidelines and good practices for applying responsible data to international development work
- How to balance data transparency with data privacy
- Informed consent
- GDPR and how to establish data sharing and controls on the wider distribution of data
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Data privacy as a human right
- Inclusive training and skills development for empowering underserved groups to manage digital footprints
- Digital Identity – issues and ownership
- Accepted speakers include
Apoorv Pal ICT4D Manager Catholic Relief Services India Shahzad Asghar Head of Data Analysis Group UNHCR Jordan Leila Toplic Lead for Emerging Technologies NetHope United States Erik Arnold Chief Technology Officer Microsoft United States Rositsa Zaimova Co-founder Dalberg Data Insights Uganda Paul Musser SVP Humanitarian & Development Mastercard United States Sivu Siwisa Sub-Saharan Regional Manager The Engine Room South Africa Sadiq Nasir Doctoral Researcher American Uni of Nigeria Nigeria NGNAOUSSI ELONGUE Knowledge Management Specialist Ghana Cedric Christian Kelly Church Digital Impact Lead CARE United States Ali El Benni Senior Manager, Data Protection and Information Security Catholic Relief Services Lebanon Mac Esmilla CISO World Vision International Singapore Markus Pohl Head of Project Child Growth Monitor Welthungerhilfe Germany Berihun Addis ICT Officer Plan International Ethiopia Ethiopia
Supply Chain - Led by Chemonics
- Beneficiary and inventory data
- Use of systems to standardize and improve process flow
- Fleet and transportation management, information systems, and how these are deployed/managed in different operational/sectoral settings
- Local markets and technology
- Knowledge management and smart data use challenges and opportunities
- Data enabled corruption mitigation
- Accepted speakers include
Melis Esi Senior Technical Manager Procurement and Supply Chain Management Systems Management Sciences for Health Nigeria Kathryn M Clifton ICT4D Data and Communications Manager Catholic Relief Services United States Ishan Singhal Warehousing and Distribution Analyst Chemonics International United States Jeremie Fikiri Project LMIS Specialist Global Health Supply Chain Program - Technical Assistance Francophone Task Order Project Congo, Democratic Republic of the Scott Dubin Warehousing and Distribution Team Lead Global Health Supply Chain Program - Procurement and Supply Management Project United States Anthony Kimani Humanitarian Technologies Advisor World Vision International Kenya Charlemagne Gnoula Senior Regional Advisor, West Africa Global Health Supply Chain Program - Technical Assistance Francophone Task Order Project Burkina Faso Phillip Lule LMIS Advisor Global Fund Ghana LMIS Project/Chemonics International United States Angela Kastner Director Procurement Strategy Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at United Nations Foundation Ireland Kaustubh Navangul Global Logistics Advisor Norwegian Refugee Council Norway Ruth Ankunda CLA Specialist QED Group LLC - USAID Uganda Learning Activity Uganda Araba Sapara-Grant Digital Specialist DAI United States Daniel Schoenfeld Vice President ASCM Foundation United States Wendy Prosser Senior Technical Advisor JSI Research & Training Institute United States Njara Rakotonirina Project Director, Global Fund, Republic of Congo Catholic Relief Services Congo, Republic of the
Water Security (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene and Resource Management) - Co-led by DT Global & WE4F (USAID)
- Water in sustainable landscapes
- WASH in humanitarian and development contexts
- Improving water finance and governance
- Accepted speakers include
Jonathan Kabaka Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator Mercy Corps Congo, Democratic Republic of the Brian Banks Director of Strategic Initiatives Global Water Challenge United States Petros Birhane Chief of Party DT Global Ethiopia Godfrey Mpangala WASH Technical Advisor Catholic Relief services Tanzania Antonia Does Evaluation and Learning Advisor Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation Switzerland Styvers Kathuni Regional Director SweetSense Inc. Kenya Evan Thomas Associate Professor Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder United States German Mori Arbulú ICU Peru Dennis MWANZA Senior WASH Advisor Research Triangle International (RTI) Nigeria Mala Ram Management Information Systems Manager GOAL United Kingdom Robert Ryan-Silva Director, DAI Maker Lab DAI United States Alex Fortescue Manager, Southern & Eastern Africa Maxar Technologies South Africa Arijanto Istandar Technical Engineer RTI International United States Adam Lewis Managing Director Digital Earth Africa Australia Simon Langan Director Digital Innovations International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Sri Lanka Adam Keough Knowledge Manager Catholic Relief Services El Salvador