Babatunde Okunoye
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Tunde Okunoye is a Doctoral Fellow under the Standard Bank Chair in African Trust Infrastructures at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa, where he is affiliated with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) and the Department of Political Studies. His PhD Thesis is titled, "Engineering or Undermining Trust? Biometric IDs and Digital Credit in Nigeria". More broadly, his research focuses on three strands of work. The first on the Politics of Institutions, Financialization, and ICTs, and its impacts on access to services and development in Africa. The second on Technology and Cyber policy, including digital access, cybersecurity, and media and communications in hostile/repressive political contexts. The third on Health Policy, for example the impact of Technology on access to healthcare and health information. He was a Fellow of the African School on Internet Governance (2018), an Open Technology Fund Senior Fellow at the Tor Project (2019-2020), and a Fellow and Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University (2020-2024). Previously he was a Staff Researcher at Paradigm Initiative, a Technology Policy non-profit based in Lagos Nigeria.
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