Andreas Pawelke is the Lab Director of the Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab Jakarta. Before joining the Web Foundation, he worked as an associate expert at the administrative reforms support programme of GIZ Indonesia and also spent time seconded to the World Bank and UN Global Pulse, exploring innovative solutions at the intersection of governance, technology, and open as well as big data. As a member of the project team at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, he was involved in shaping Germany’s Open Data initiative. Andreas studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt, the Berlin-based Hertie School of Governance and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Public Policy.

Michael P. Cañares is the Senior Research Manager for Digital Citizenship at the Web Foundation. He has more than ten years of research and development work experience at a progressive pace — from community-based project management to regional development, with most of his work rooted mainly in Southeast Asia. He previously led research at the Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab in Jakarta, and prior to that, taught for over ten years, served as results measurement specialist for infrastructure governance and local economic development, and managed various open data research projects in the Philippines. He is a graduate of law and accountancy, completed a masters course in business education and also holds an M.Sc. degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His current research focus is on the politics of data, the use of data in empowering people and communities, and the processes of localising global commitments.

Kevin Hernandez is a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). After completing an MA in Globalisation, Business and Development at IDS, he now works with the digital and technology cluster on various projects including, the potential impacts of frontier technologies for Development, the use of Technology for Transparency and Accountability (T4TA), the use of Real Time Data for decision making in the development sector, the use of foresight methodology in development, helping donors mainstream adaptive management practices, and helping several donor agencies think through their use of digital technologies and their impacts. Some of the emerging technologies he has focused on include: blockchain, 3D-Printing, big data, drones, airships, internet of things, solar batteries, and more.

Pedro Prieto Martín is a Senior Research Officer at the Digital and Technology research group from the Institute of Development Studies (UK). Pedro holds degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Sociology, and a PhD in Computer Science. He worked for six years for Hewlett-Packard in Germany, as Technical Lead of a B2B platforms development team, before moving to Latin America, where he spent five years researching Participatory Budgeting and ICT for social change in Brazil, and Municipal Participation and Transparency in Guatemala. In Spain he later supported and researched, at the local level, the social mobilisation processes that resulted from the “indignados” movement. His activist-researcher work has focused on the areas of Open Government, Human Centred Design and in digital practices, tools and methods for citizen engagement and social change. His research at IDS has focused on the Adaptive Management and the use of Frontier Technologies for Development.