Mamello Thinyane

Mamello Thinyane a principal research fellow at the United Nations University Institute in Macau, where he leads research on the Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience project to develop tools to enhance the resilience of citizens and civil society stakeholders against adverse cyber incidents. He also leads research on Data and Sustainable Development, formerly the Small Data Lab, which supports the active participation of civil society stakeholders in data ecosystems. Before joining UNU, he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, as well as the director for the Telkom Centre of Excellence in ICT for Development at the same institute. He was previously a visiting researcher at the Australian Centre of Cyber-Security at the University of New South Wales in Canberra.