Angela Okune
Angela Okune has over 12 years of experience in community engagement in open data and scholarship ecosystems. Keen to address global inequities in science and technology, Angela leads the Code for Science & Society programs team to run community-centered grant-making initiatives, cohort training programs, and research initiatives that support communities leveraging science and tech to creatively build power at the grassroots.
Trained as a social scientist of science, Angela received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine and has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation and UC Berkeley Center for Technology, Society and Policy Fellowship.
Formative experiences include establishing a research and data science team at iHub, the first African tech hub; collaboratively running the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network, and co-editing the open-access book Contextualizing Openness: Situating Open Science (University of Ottawa Press).
Events
| Title | Day | Room | Track | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal sponsorship for / and FOSS projects |
Saturday | AW1.120 | Public Code and Digital Public Goods devroom | 17:35 | 17:45 |