TICTeC 2020 keynote: Nanjala Nyabola
Channel: mySociety
Date: 2020-04-01

Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan Writer, Humanitarian Advocate and Political Analyst. She was a keynote speaker at mySociety's 6th Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC), which was held virtually on 24 and 25 March 2020. 

She has published a substantial body of work spanning academic research, books and articles. A key theme is the effect that technology is having upon politics — in her home country of Kenya, but also across Africa and indeed globally, with a look at the recent electoral and political upheaval in the UK and US.

Her book 'Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya' was hailed as “one of the few studies of social media that goes beyond the digital sphere to provide in-depth social, political, and historic context”.

Meanwhile, her articles have informed international debate across the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New Internationalist, the BBC World Service, Al Jazeera and many more.

TICTeC 2020 bought together 180 people from over 30 different countries. 

It was the sixth in an annual series of conferences from mySociety, focusing on the impact that civic technology and digital democracy are having upon citizens, decision makers and governments around the world.

To find out more about TICTeC please visit: http://tictec.mysociety.org