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Panelist Alice Munyua. Alice Munyua is the Director of Africa Innovation at Mozilla. She leads Mozilla's Innovation and Public Policy portfolios for the Africa region.

She served as a member of the board of the Kenya Communications Regulatory Authority, led African Government engagement in the African Union Commission Dot Africa initiative, represented both the Kenya government and the AUC at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), while there she served as vicechair for 2 years and founding chair of the GAC Public Safety and Under-Served Regions Working Groups. She has been involved with the internet society in different capacities, including as a member of the board of trustees for 3 years.

She is the founder and convenor of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet). KICTANet is a multi-stakeholder network of people and institutions interested and involved in ICT Policy and regulation.

Panelist Imogen Parker. Imogen is Associate Director of Policy at the Ada Lovelace Institute, where she is responsible for running research to understand public sector uses of data, and shaping change to policy, law, regulation and public service delivery. She is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Science and Policy.

Her career has been at the intersection of social justice, technology and research. In her previous role as Head of the Nuffield Foundation’s programmes on Justice, Rights and Digital Society she worked in collaboration with the founding partner organisations to create Ada. Prior to that she was acting Head of Policy Research for Citizens and Democracy at Citizens Advice, Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and worked with Baroness Kidron to create the children’s digital rights charity 5Rights.

Panelist Dr. Pamod Amarakoon is a Director of HISP Sri Lanka, a regional node of the Global HISP Network supporting the implementation of the free and open source health management information system platform, DHIS2. He also serves as a Lecturer at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He started his career as a medical doctor and later pursued his postgraduate education in the domains of health informatics, health administration, and medical education. His main research areas include public health informatics and mHealth. He is a global trainer and an implementer of the DHIS2 platform and has years of experience in implementing information systems in several countries in Asia-Pacific and African regions. He also serves as the Executive Vice President of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka.