@ Internet ResearchPolicy Methods inWorkshop Africa For Advocacy February 26 - March 3, 2018 | Kampala, Uganda Faculty 2018 CIPESA SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Christopher Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He joined the Department in 2013, after completing his PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on communication policy and regulation, localism, local news/local journalism, and critical theory. Christopher has worked for the Federal Communications Commission, submitted research to the Swiss Office of Communication, consulted with the South Korean Committee on the Impact of Media Concentration, and was part of a consortium of researchers, activists, and practitioners intervening at the Canadian Radio- television and Telecommunications Commission regarding community and local media. His book, Media Localism: The Policies of Place (University of Illinois Press, 2017) addresses the difficulties of defining and regulating local media in the 21st century in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada and the implications these difficulties have for the long-term viability of local news. For 2016-2017 Christopher is a Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Catherine Anite is a pro-bono human rights advocate focusing on the promotion and defense of freedom of expression, media rights, and access to information in Uganda and at a regional level. She is currently head of the legal department at the Human Rights Network for Journalists in Uganda, where her responsibilities include defending and representing journalists, analyzing and publicizing laws and policies that impede on freedom of expression, publishing work on media rights, training journalists on professional standards, and spearheading advocacy campaigns to fight for the rights of journalists and media practitioners in Uganda, most especially the rural areas. She was selected by Avocats Sans Frontiers and the East African Law Society in an EU Human Rights Defenders project to constitute a pool of human rights lawyers to defend rights in East Africa and the Great Lakes Region. Catherine holds a bachelor’s (hons) degree in Law from Makerere University and a postgraduate diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre in Kampala. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, she plans to continue working towards creating a conducive environment for enjoyment of freedom of expression in Uganda through defending journalists’ rights, litigation, advocating for legal and policy reform for media, and training journalists in media law and professional ethics. 34 Neil Blazevic leads the DefendersTech Program at DefendDefenders, a Uganda-based organisation working to protect and support human rights defenders in East & Horn of Africa. Together with his team he leads efforts to improve digital safety practices of human rights defenders and their organisations, aid activists to have a voice online, and supports electronic documentation of human rights data. Neil is also a blockchain enthusiast, the proprietor of a forest lodge outside of Kampala, the 2017-2018 Vice President Public Relations at Kampala Toastmasters Club, holds a CompTIA Security+ Certification and a MA in International Development Studies. He is an honourary Muganda since 2012. Tweets from @neilblazevic. Enrico Calandro (Ph.D.) is a research manager at Research ICT Africa, an ICT think tank based in Cape Town. Over the last eight years, Enrico has been exploring the relationship between digital access and development with a focus on digital inequalities. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration specialising in telecommunications policy, from the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, and a Master degree in Communications’ sciences from the University of Perugia, Italy. Prior to joining Research ICT Africa, he worked as a technical advisor for the ICT programme of the SADC Parliamentary Forum in Namibia, within the UN technical cooperation framework. He also worked for the European Commission, Information Society and Media DG as a trainee after completing his Master’s degree. He is a recipient of the Open Technology Fund fellowship on Information controls, the Amy Mahan scholarship award for the advancement of ICT policy in Africa, and the UNDESA fellowship for international cooperation. Since January 2017, he has been leading the Regional Academic Network on IT Policies (RANITP), a network of academic researchers interested in digital transformation research. Josiah Chavula is a Research Engineer at AFRINIC Ltd where he undertakes Internet measurements research, primarily focusing on Internet performance in Africa, as well as on the impact of ISPs’ interconnection, routing strategies and middle-boxes on Internet performance. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, where his research was on Internet performance and traffic engineering in Africa, focusing on National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). He obtained his MSc degree in Networking and Internet Systems from Lancaster University, England, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Malawi. 35 Jessica Dheere is a co-founder and executive director of the Beirut, Lebanon–based non-governmental organization SMEX (smex.org), the Middle East and North Africa’s only organization devoted exclusively to digital rights research and policy advocacy. In addition to managing day-to-day operations at SMEX, Jessica also leads research initiatives with a regional scope, including both a recent mapping of Arab-region mobile telecom operators and their public disclosures of terms of service and privacy policies and the Arab Digital Rights Dataset, an open, interoperable database of law and caselaw related to digital rights in Arab states. The database is currently expanding to cover other countries and regions in the global south, including in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Also a journalist, Jessica has written the only definitive non- governmental history of the Arab IGF for the 2017 edition of GISWatch on national and regional internet governance initiatives. Between 2015 and 2017, she was a member of the Digital Development and Openness working group of the Freedom Online Coalition and in 2014 she was a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace. She has a master’s degree in media studies from the New School in New York City and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. Arturo Filastò is the founder and lead engineer of the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) project, where he develops free software designed to measure various forms of network interference. He previously created GlobaLeaks (the first open source whistle-blowing platform), co-founded the Hermes Centre for Digital Human Rights and served as its Vice President for five years. He also worked on a number of other software projects, including Tor2Web and Atlas. Arturo studied Computer Science and Mathematics at Sapienza University of Rome. Neema Iyer is the founder and director of Pollicy, a civic technology organization based in Kampala, Uganda. Pollicy uses data, design and technology to improve how citizens and government engage around public service delivery. She is also the Project Lead at DefendDefenders for DOC-it, a flagship documentation project, Usable, focused on improving digital security tools and the recently ended DATA4CHAN.GE program. She has a Masters in Public Health (Epidemiology) from Emory University and has worked on large-scale mobile and digital projects across Africa as part of TTC Mobile (previously Text to 36 Change) and Viamo (previously VOTO Mobile). She currently leads the design of a number of projects focused on building data skills, on fostering conversations on data privacy and digital security, and on innovating around policy. Social media handles: @pollicyorg @neemaiyer Ashnah Kalemera works as a Programme Manager at CIPESA. She coordinates multi-country projects promoting the use of ICT in democratic processes and for citizen participation, including training for citizen journalists, mainstream media and government officials. 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), and has work experience from Spain, UK, and various African countries. Moses Karanja is a PhD student at The University of Toronto, Department of Political Science. He is also a researcher at The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.Moses has researched on information controls in the Eastern and Southern African region focusing on Internet censorship and surveillance using approaches that combine legal, political, and technical methodologies. He has also worked on Intentional Internet connectivity disruptions in the African region and how such incidences relate to political moments like protests and elections.He previously worked at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), based at Strathmore Law School in Nairobi, Kenya. While there,