Dr. Aminah Zawedde
Dr. Aminah Zawedde is the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance. She is an experienced IT professional passionate about embracing digital transformation to improve business models, service delivery and transform people's lives. She provides strategic and technical guidance on how various sectors can leverage innovation and digital solutions to solve their problems while creating employment opportunities for the youths. To this end, she has played a big role in strengthening the linkages between government, the private sector, academia and development partners. Dr. Zawedde is a Rotarian and also serves on the boards of DFCU Limited, NITA-U and MustardSeed Junior School.
Dr. Assane Gueye
Dr. Assane Gueye is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Africa since August 2020. He is the co-Director of the CyLab-Africa initiative and Director of the Upanzi Digital Public Goods Network. Dr. Gueye also holds a Guest Researcher position with the National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA. He previously was a faculty member at the ICT Department at the University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal, where he also led the research group “Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour le Développement” (TIC4Dev). Assane completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in March 2011. He previously received a master’s degree in communication systems engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interest focuses in two main areas: performance evaluation and security of large-scale communication systems, and information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D). Assane is a Fellow of the Next Einstein Forum (Class of 2016). In 2019 he was nominated as a member of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) inaugural Fellow Class.
