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Dr. Mamello Thinyane's Bio

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Mamello Thinyane
Principal Research Fellow
United Nations University Institute in Macau

For over 15 years he has worked on multi-stakeholder Digital Development projects in Africa and Asia.

At UNU he leads the Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience project which is undertaking policy-relevant research, innovating technology tools, and undertaking capacity-building activities to enhance the resilience of citizens and civil society stakeholders in smart digital futures in Macau SAR and the Asia-Pacific region. He also leads research on Data and Sustainable Development, formerly the Small Data Lab, which critically investigates the sustainable development data assemblages and develops tools to support the active participation of civil society stakeholders in these data ecosystems.

Before joining UNU, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, as well as the Director for the Telkom Centre of Excellence in ICT for Development at the same institute. He is also a former Visiting Researcher at the Australian Centre for Cyber Security at the University of New South Wales - Australian Defense Force Academy.