David Lemayian Email & Phone Number

Kenya

Tenery 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.

Kenya

Qhala 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.

The Qhala Trust (Q-Trust) works to empower young people in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve sustainable livelihoods through digital innovation.

David 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.

Kenya

Mara Springs is a road and real-estate construction company in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Philippines

As 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.

Kenya, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Rwanda, Canada, Eastern Europe, UK

David 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.

Antler in Kenya works with exceptional founders and early-stage startups leveraging tech to tackle deep, relevant, and ambitious problems in Africa.

Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria

David 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.

Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Ethiopia

Chief 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..

Kenya, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Rwanda

As 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.

Kenya, South Africa

David 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.

Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Tanzania

David 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.

Kenya, Moldova, Nepal, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Cameroon

As 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.

David 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.

Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa

Knight 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.

South Africa

As 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.

Kenya, South Africa, Liberia

As 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.

Malawi

David 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.

Nairobi, Kenya

Seconded 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.

Nairobi, Kenya

David’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.

Bbit, Business And I.T.

Activities and Societies: AIESEC, Kenya Model United Nations After attaining a high school education, David pursued a Bachelor in Business.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drones)

Helicopter License, Aircraft Pilot (Private)

David began pursuing his passion for flying in 2017 by enrolling in East Africa's only Helicopter Training school, Sicham before.

Acca, Accounting

Activities and Societies: AIESEC, Kenya Model United Nations David's love of math and entrepreneurship led him to enrol for Association of.

Kcse, Math, Physics, English, Kiswahili,, Chemistry, Biology, Geography

Activities and Societies: Basketball team - Shooting guard + team manager, A team Cricket team - Lead batsman Scroll Digital (replaced.