Agenda

Jasmina Byrne is Chief of Policy at UNICEF’s Office of Global Insight and Policy, where she oversees frontier policy portfolios for the organization ranging from digital technology to governance and the environment. Jasmina leads the Office’s flagship initiative towards a data governance for children manifesto.  Prior to this, she led UNICEF Office of Research (Innocenti) work on children’s rights in the digital age, co-leading the Global Kids Online research initiative.

Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen is an EGOV Adviser at the United Nations University -  EGOV, an international think tank working with the digital transformation of the public sector.

He is responsible for digital transformation projects on performance management, strategy, and capacity development Georgia, Uganda, and Saudi Arabia. He leads projects with UNICEF and the Digital Future Society on the impact of the digital transformation of service delivery on both marginalized communities, children, and women.

Morten regularly run executive training on digital transformation of the public sector and is a guest lecturer at several European universities.

Past employment includes the Danish Agency for Digitisation, Danish Technological Institute, European Institute of Public Administration, Centre for the Development of Enterprise; European Commission, and University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Morten is currently completing his ph.d. at Tallinn University of Technology. He is an author and co-author of various publications, a reviewer for various journals, on multiple conference committees, and a juror on several awards committees.

Zoë Pelter is a Policy Officer with UNICEF’s Office of Global Insight and Policy, where she works across a number of frontier policy portfolios including governance and society. Most recently, Zoë’s work has focused on digital civic engagement trends amongst young people, and innovations in governance and policymaking. Prior to her role with UNICEF, Zoë worked as a development policy and local governance analyst for UNDP in Pakistan.

Mercy Erhi Makpor is currently a Research Assistant at the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance. She is also a Research Associate and prospective PostDoc Candidate in the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Portugal.

Her research area is in e-Governance with a keen interest in Digital Inclusion and Gender Equality. She is also interested in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility with specificity to the supply chain mapping, third party relationships, stakeholder engagements, and effective CSR integration in the Oil and Gas sector. Her other interest is in the area of human development at micro and macro levels where she focuses on individual and institutional responses to social, economic and environmental issues with the possibility of reaching and sustaining mutual grounds for human growth and development. She has also researched Gender advocacy and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights. She takes great interest in counselling, programme facilitation, leadership and team-building practices.

She has had years of experience conducting research and working with professionals from some of the biggest research teams in Canada under the Teasdale-Corti Team Grant, a host of others from Europe under the European Commission and currently with the United Nations University.