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David Lemayian is a technologist and AI strategist applying tech to governance, civic engagement, and journalism. As the founder of Tenery Research, he works with public sector organisations and actors to develop solutions for data challenges. His work includes training, strategy development, and implementation of tools.With over a decade in technology and civic innovation, David served as Chief Technologist and CTO for Code for Africa (CfA), leading engineering teams across eight countries. He spearheaded openAFRICA.net, the continent's largest civic data repository, and sourceAFRICA.net, a collection of investigative documents, laying groundwork for data-driven analysis in journalism and governance.As a Knight International Journalism Fellow with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), David integrated advanced computer science and digital forensic strategies into watchdog media organizations. He built shared technology labs developing tools and data infrastructure for health, development, anti-corruption, and governance projects.David conducts readiness assessments, develops ethical AI frameworks, and creates tech implementation roadmaps. He focuses on digital transformations and policy development aligning with organizational goals and regulations, guiding AI adoption, tool integration, and long-term roadmap development.As an AI & e-Government Advisor at Qhala and former Technology Advisor for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, David has advised government leaders and policymakers. He's supported advanced tool adoption across over 20 countries and multilateral agencies, including the AfDB, emphasizing practical application, ethics, and customized solutions.His expertise extends to digital security, having led CfA's African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR) digital security lab. Here, he helped newsrooms and NGOs deploy secure communication tools for whistleblowers and protection against cyberattacks.David has contributed to major transnational investigations, including #PanamaPapers, focusing on illicit finances and offshore companies. His work consistently aims to enhance transparency, accountability, and efficiency in governance and journalism through technology.
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Regional Director, Eastern And Southern Africa Open Mapping HubHumanitarian Openstreetmap TeamKenya
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Founder & PrincipalTenery Research 2024 - PresentTenery Research supports governments, civil society, journalists, and research institutions with strategy, training, and open-source tools that are simple, scalable, and smart. Our focus areas include; 1) Climate, Energy, and Environment; 2) Gender Equity and Women; 3) Public Service Delivery, Good Governance, and e-Government. All this is underpinned by the strategic deployment and adoption of emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Drones, and Remote Sensing. -
Artificial Intelligence & E-Government AdvisorQhala 2024 - PresentKenyaQhala works with organizations to co-create products, services and new business models. Their approach ties together strategy, research, design and technology to solve today's needs and future goals. -
TrusteeQhala Trust 2024 - PresentThe Qhala Trust (Q-Trust) works to empower young people in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve sustainable livelihoods through digital innovation. -
Strategy And Technology AdvisorNon-Executive Director And Advisory Portfolio 2020 - PresentDavid supports research institutions, non-profits, governments, and companies to shape their digital strategies and helps them architect and build secure data-driven tools for citizen engagement, process optimisation, and analysis. He works closely with Project and Executive Directors to inject product, data science, and software engineering insights into decision-making around tools, technologies, people, and help build early prototypes of ideas. -
Mara Springs - Non-Executive DirectorNon-Executive Director And Advisory Portfolio 2015 - PresentKenyaMara Springs is a road and real-estate construction company in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Hivos - Technical AdvisorNon-Executive Director And Advisory Portfolio Jan 2016 - Dec 2016Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Guatemala, Indonesia, PhilippinesAs a Technical Advisor, David served on HiVOS’ Open Up Contracting programme (https://www.openupcontracting.org/) selection committee to help identify projects pioneering organisations or digital projects that strengthen transparency and accountability in Guatemala, Kenya, Indonesia, Philippines, Malawi and Tanzania.David has also helped HiVOS shape its digital strategies around election monitoring across Africa, helping design SMS-based tools and data verification strategies that helped unmask over 40,000 ghost voters in Malawi’s 2014 elections, through deployment of Code for Africa’s (CfA) GotToVote toolkit. David also helped deploy the toolkit for HiVOS in Zambia.David’s served as part of CfA’s mission to inject computer science / software engineering insights into decision-making by watchdog media and human rights NGOs.
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Technology AdvisorTony Blair Institute For Global Change 2021 - 2024Kenya, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Côte D'Ivoire, Senegal, Rwanda, Canada, Eastern Europe, UkDavid supported the Tony Blair Institute with technology initiatives in Centres of Government across the countries that TBI works. This includes advising Heads of States', Presidents', Prime Ministers', and Ministers' delivery teams on open source technologies and artificial intelligence, and supporting internal teams to recruit tech talent across the world. He has also spearheaded adoption and development of TBI's flagship tools, overseeing the tripling of languages they are offered in, expansion of features, and adoption from 3 countries to being used in 20+ countries and by multilateral agencies including the Africa Development Bank. -
Entrepreneur In ResidenceAntler Aug 2020 - Dec 2020Antler in Kenya works with exceptional founders and early-stage startups leveraging tech to tackle deep, relevant, and ambitious problems in Africa. -
Executive Director, Code For Kenya & Code For NigeriaCode For Africa Jun 2016 - Feb 2020Kenya, South Africa, NigeriaDavid served on the Board of Directors of Code for Kenya and Code for Nigeria as a representative from the Code for Africa Executive Team. His main responsibilities involved developing country strategies, signing off on budgets, and mentoring in-country teams.Under his leadership, Code for Nigeria delivered #MapMakoko project that used drones to put Nigeria's floating slum on the map (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JQrbgp6zkY).Likewise, Code for Kenya expanded from a full-time staff of 8 to 20 people and graduated its sensors.AFRICA project to become a pan-AFRICA citizen science initiative that uses sensors to monitor air, water and sound pollution to give citizens actionable information about their cities (https://sensors.africa/). -
Chief Technologist / CtoCode For Africa Jan 2016 - Feb 2020Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Senegal, EthiopiaChief technologist for Code for Africa’s (CfA) network of software / hardware engineering labs in eight countries, and project affiliates in another 10 countries.David built CfA’s core engineering and data analysis teams from the start, headhunting African digital pioneers and hacktivists to build some of the continent’s earliest open data initiatives. This has included working in support of anti-corruption journalists, progressive government agencies, and crusading human rights NGOs on projects that have ranged from digitising ‘deadwood’ government records to liberate the entity data hidden in the documents, to creating anti-FGM tools and mapping the mafia’s hidden assets across Africa.As CfA matured, David built forensic data backbone infrastructure and enterprise-scale solutions that empowered citizens with actionable information.
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Lead TechnologistCode For Africa Jan 2014 - Dec 2015Kenya, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Uganda, RwandaAs Lead Technologist, David was in charge of expanding Code for Africa's technical teams into Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. David recruited and managed full-time teams to support Code for Africa's network of data journalism and civic tech labs.In Sierra Leone, the in-country teams worked with local governments to help improve access to water and received recognition for their work by Engine Room, World Bank, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Developer LeadCode For Africa Jan 2012 - Dec 2013Kenya, South AfricaDavid was part of the founding team at Code for Africa leading technology teams to create open-source software and hardware to support journalists, civil society organisations, and government.
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Chief TechnologistAfrican Network Of Centres For Investigative Reporting (Ancir) Jan 2013 - Feb 2020Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Angola, TanzaniaDavid led the forensic data and digital security labs the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR).The forensic data lab helps member newsrooms and investigative NGOs use sophisticated network analysis and document extraction tools, such as sourceAFRICA (http://sourceAFRICA.net) and GRANO (https://GranoProject.org) to spearhead major transnational investigations into organised crime, corrupt government and predatory corporates. Projects have included #PanamaPapers, Mafia-in-Africa, and Fatal Attractions.The digital security lab deploys digital tools such as the encrypted afriLEAKS (https://afrileaks.org/) platform to safely communicate with whistleblowers, SHIELD to protect against cyberattacks, and OUTLINE to protect against snooping by intelligence agencies and organised crime.ANCIR is an initiative of Code for Africa (CfA). Lemayian guided ANCIR’s tech labs as part of his role as CfA Chief Technologist. -
Senior Technical TrainerWorld Bank Group Jan 2012 - Feb 2020Kenya, Moldova, Nepal, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone, CameroonAs Senior Technical Trainer, David helped the World Bank’s Global Media Development Programme design and implement it’s flagship data literacy initiative, the dBootcamps, in 15 countries.The World Bank uses dBootcamps to kickstart data-driven storytelling and citizen engagement in countries that are adopting open government initiatives. Participants include civic technologists, data activists, data journalists and government officials. Code for Africa (CfA) helped design and implement the dBootcamp model for the World Bank, starting in 2012, and has since helped deliver dBootcamps across Africa, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia.David managed teams of African technologists at dBootcamps, sharing their skills with counterparts everywhere from Moldova and Nepal, to India and Malawi. -
Governing Council MemberCode For All Jun 2016 - Jan 2020David served as governing Council Member on the Code for All (CfAll) global association of civic technology organisations.David represented Code for Africa on the CfAll Advisory Board, lobbying for the interests of Africa-based civic technologists and open data activists.CfAll is international network of civic tech organizations that drive change through digital technology and citizen participation. The website is: https://codeforall.org/ -
Knight International Journalism FellowInternational Center For Journalists (Icfj) Jul 2016 - Jun 2019Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South AfricaKnight Fellowship work to help bring advanced computer science and digital forensic strategies to watchdog media organisations.David’s fellowship was unusual for ICFJ, which usually recruits fellows with deep journalism backgrounds. As a technologist, David was appointed to transform traditional media systems by helping partners adopt pioneering new investigative data techniques and tools. This has included helping build backbone infrastructure, restructure internal production processes, digitise team / product management systems and introduce data analysis / data journalism capacity.Most investigative newsrooms and watchdog NGOs cannot however afford their own internal fully-fledged civic tech / open data labs. David therefore also built a centralised, shared technology lab at ICFJ partner Code for Africa (CfA) as a catalyst for partner organisations. The lab, with teams in six countries and associates in a further four countries, builds tools and data infrastructure for projects tackling health and development issues, as well as anti-corruption and good governance. -
Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism - Technical AdvisorNon-Executive Director And Advisory Portfolio Jan 2014 - Jun 2015South AfricaAs a Technical Advisor, David helped architect and build the award-winning #GreenAlert / #MineAlert geo-data tool for Oxpeckers.The tools turn often incomprehensible government Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) data into interactive maps, which issue automated alerts for local users based on proximity or topic triggers. The tools also include a set of citizen mobilisation / engagement tools, to help activists build traction around issues.The project won the SAB EnviroMedia Award in 2017 and has been shortlisted or made finalist in a range of award between 2015 - 2018, most notably the Data Journalism Awards in 2018.David’s served as part of CfA’s mission to inject computer science / software engineering insights into decision-making by watchdog media and human rights NGOs.
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Timby (This Is My Backyard) - Technical AdvisorNon-Executive Director And Advisory Portfolio Oct 2013 - Jun 2015Kenya, South Africa, LiberiaAs a Technical Advisor, David shaped digital strategies for the TIMBY (This is My Backyard) citizen reporting toolkit for investigative activists.TIMBY received seed-funding from Code for Africa (CfA), to create an encrypted mobile app for undercover journalists and activists to collect evidence of illegal activities across Africa. David helped the TIMBY team build early prototypes, and helped refine digital security technologies.David’s served as part of CfA’s mission to inject computer science / software engineering insights into decision-making by watchdog media and human rights NGOs.
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Malawi Election Information Center (Meic) - Technical AdvisorNon-Executive Director And Advisory Portfolio Jan 2014 - Mar 2015MalawiDavid Lemayian served as technical advisor for the Malawi Election Information Centre (MEIC) - an Election Situation Room (ESR) and Citizens Journalism initiative for the 2014 Tripartite Elections in Malawi - funded by OSISA and Hivos. Lemayian worked closely with the Malawi Electoral Commission to use GotToVote (GtV) to unmask over 40,000 ghost voters and provide it as the official voter registration confirmation technology in the country. GtV was used by over 400,000 citizens and our work was covered by Aljazeera here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUdCVzxCt_oDavid’s served as part of CfA’s mission to inject computer science / software engineering insights into decision-making by watchdog media and human rights NGOs.
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Lead DeveloperThe Open Institute May 2012 - Sep 2013Nairobi, KenyaSeconded as Lead Technologist, David helped establish the software engineering team at Open Institute (OI) as part of Code for Africa’s (CfA) first civic incubation project.OI was established, with CfA seed-funding, as Kenya’s first open data / open government focused civic thing tank and R&D lab. CfA contracted OI to manage a cohort of technologists embedded into watchdog NGOs and media, at Twaweza, the Nation Media Group, Standard Media Group and the Star, to help build the country’s first civc technology and data journalism units. David managed both the fellows, as well as the backend software team at OI that supported the fellows. -
DirectorCapefield Jan 2011 - Aug 2013Nairobi, KenyaDavid’s first startup, while still at university, Capefield focused on developing mobile (Android) apps that tackled social development issues.An early adopter of civic data released by the Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI), Capefield created Msema Kweli to give citizens easy, geo-aware tools to check how their local government’s Constituency Development Funds (CDF) were being spent. KODI showcased Msema Kweli on its site and presented it to the 3rd President of Kenya as an example of civic technology best practices. Capefield used KODI and additional World Bank data to build CDF Review, which helped journalists, civic watchdogs and regulators identify "ghost" or otherwise underperforming projects. CDF Review won a Mozilla Award (Data Journalism Award), from the African Media Initiative and World Bank, and was also named a finalist in the 2012 Global Data Journalism Awards (http://datajournalismawards.org).Capefield also won the 2012 Google Android Developer Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa with, Olalashe (which means "brother" in Maasai). The app allows users, just as journalists and other field workers, to easily send a geo-alert with detailed location and other contextual data to selected contacts in emergencies.Capefield was also cited for civic innovation at the 2011 Red Cross' Random Hacks of Kindness, and was runner-up at Safaricom's 2012 Kipokezi Apps Challenge in 2012.After David’s departure, for Code for Africa, Capefield changed focus to SME investment and technology consulting. David retains a controlling stake in Capefield.
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Bac HelicopterAircraft Pilot (Private)
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Strathmore SchoolMath, Physics, English, Kiswahili,, Chemistry, Biology, Geography
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