keywords: STS; open science; Kenya; collaboration; ethnographic data systems
Dr. Angela Okune is the Research Director and co-founder of “R”, a think-tank based in Nairobi, Kenya that works on the politics of knowledge in Africa. Current projects include serving on the advisory board for local universities, the African Academy of Sciences, and providing strategic guidance for education and data policies. Angela has an appointment with the University of Nairobi Department of Computing and Informatics as well as with the University of Berkeley Information School where she teaches courses on ethnography and qualitative research methodologies. Angela obtained her PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of California, Irvine where she was the recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation and a 2018 Fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Technology, Society and Policy. From 2010 – 2015, as co-founder of the research department at iHub, Nairobi’s innovation hub for the tech community, Angela provided strategic guidance for the growth of tech research in Kenya.
