Lessons from Africa’s data-sharing practices during COVID-19
A Data & Policy commentary draws on African data-centric COVID-19 interventions to set out how data sharing for social good can be sustained.
Morine is Africa Sandboxes Forum Lead at the Datasphere Initiative. She is a data analyst who has been active in Africa’s data space for nearly a decade, with past work on analysing, visualising and translating social data — including social media, public radio and search data — into insights for policy and SDG work. She previously worked with Pulse Lab Kampala (UN Global Pulse) and held a Data Science Africa research fellowship on opportunities and challenges of data sharing in Africa. She is also a board member of Data Science Africa.