A curation of my questions-cum-comments, aka ‘quomments’, as we navigate these unprecedented times. No one can definitively claim to have the answers; we are thinking, reasoning, hoping, mourning together. As we must, I suppose.
- The Evolving Role of Tech During COVID-19
- I joined this conversation series hosted by Dalberg Advisors and Amref Health to contextualise the role of digital/emerging technologies in tackling this pandemic.
- African Response(s) to a Global Crisis: The pandemic vs tech (Article for Latitude Magazine)
- Ahead of the Latitude Digital Festival, I was invited to reflect on the aforementioned, and the role of (digital)technologies in the covid-19 response in Africa.
- How Science, Technology and Innovation can contribute to SDGs after Covid-19 (Contribution to the Digital STI conference).
- At this digital conference organised by permanent missions to the UN in New York, I weighed in on how digital technologies fit within the wider Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) narratives for the Global Goals, and the key lessons we must learn from their appropriate use during this pandemic.
- Is this really solidarity? A virtual cultural exchange organised by the Goethe Institut. I spoke with Kübra Gümüşay in this IG live session on our observations (from our different corners of the world) around narratives of solidarity, ideas of collectivism and the ever growing demands for equality.
- Public health, digital responses and human rights (Webinar)
- In this final webinar series hosted by the ITU and the office of the UN Under Secretary General Fabrizio Hochschild, I joined a distinguished lineup to articulate the bold action we need to see with respect to human rights proactively guiding use of digital technologies for covid-19 responses, and beyond!
- Contact-tracing and challenges to privacy (Webinar)
- In which I discuss the instructive lessons to learn from Africa’s response to the pandemic, and the appropriate role of digital technologies in health, now and henceforth.
- Will digital innovations be a game changer for pandemic surveillance and response? (Webinar)
- In which I situate the discourse on the role of digital technologies and the intrinsic motivations driving their development and deployment. One key concern I raise is that digital technologies in health MUST be designed WITH the contribution and expertise of health professionals.
- Technology and Human Rights in times of crisis (Webinar)
- In which I discuss the need for new narratives and digital rights language for the onslaught of tech solutions being pursued to tackle the covid-19 pandemic).
- ‘Day-Afterthoughts’
- A Q&A on the pandemic with the Goethe Institut’s Latitude project.
- Journaling a Pandemic
- alongside other Kenyan thinkers on what this pandemic means for life as we (have) know(n) it.
- Mapping how governments are proposing to use tech to tackle the pandemic.
- Also, how tech companies are ‘stepping up’ to satiate the ‘#techforcorona’ appetite.
