The Upanzi Digital Public Goods Webinar Series is a monthly webinar, held on the last Wednesday of each month. Speakers span government, academia, and the nonprofit sector, and will speak on topics relevant to the digital transformation of Africa, including (but not limited to) digital public goods and infrastructure, digital financial inclusion, and security and privacy of digital services.

The series is organized as part of the Upanzi Network’s effort to build a skilled digital public goods workforce in Africa and to foster education and public awareness, training, public access to information, and participation in secure, fair, and sustainable digital public goods. 

Join us For more information about the Upanzi Digital Public Goods Webinar Series or to sign up for the mailing list, please contact Olive Uwimana.

2025

  • January 29
    Topic: "On-device machine learning for traffic classification in programmable networks"
    Speaker: Aristide Tanyi-Jong Akem (IMDEA Networks Institute)

2024

  • January 31
    Topic: "Digital transformation of health campaigns"
    Speaker: Jojo Mehra (eGov Foundation)
  • February 28
    Topic: "Community-driven massive online open validation and evaluation for continuous real-world alignment in medical large language models"
    Speaker: Mary-Anne Hartley (Yale University)
  • March 27
    Topic: Cross-border identification in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities"
    Speaker: Andrew Musoke (The Upanzi Network and CyLab-Africa)
  • June 4
    Topic: "Secure and private data sharing"
    Speaker: Carsten Maple (The University of Warwick's Cyber Security Centre)
  • October 25
    Topic: "Timing Attacks on Constant-Time Code"
    Speaker: Riccardo Paccagnella (CyLab, CMU)
  • December 4
    Topic: "Targeting Humanitarian Aid with Machine Learning and Digital Data"
    • Speaker: Emily Aiken (CMU-Africa)

2023

  • January 25
    Topic: "eGov’s Experience: Leveraging DIGIT to accelerate urban transformation"
    Speakers: Manish Srivastava and Subhashini Srinivasan (eGov)
  • February 22
    Topic: "Challenges and opportunities of DPGs in healthcare"
    Speakers: Tom Oluoch (USA CDC, Kigali Office), and Andrew Muhire (Ministry of Health, Rwanda)
    Moderator: Conrad Tucker (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • March 29
    Topic: "From cash to digital: Measuring the impact of inclusive instant payment systems on emerging economies"
    Speaker: Phillip Roessler (William & Mary)
  • April 26
    Topic: "Challenges and opportunities of DPGs in financial services"
    Speaker: Michael Mbuthia (AfricaNenda)