Rebecca Ryakitimbo

Founder and co-founder at
KsGEN in Tanzania and Core23lab in DRC-Congo

Hi ,My name is Rebecca, a techie, writer, researcher, and a lover of nature.she is currently a MANRS fellow and a Mozilla fellow.Her work has been on leveraging technology solutions to solve community challenges including engagement in digital policies. She has been an Internet Society fellow, and a Google Policy fellow, among other fellowships. One of the Co-founders of Digital Grassroots, she has worked as a project team member with Kondoa community network in using TV white spaces technology to bring Internet connectivity to rural communities. She serves as the Principle Investigator for WildNET through Kuza STEAM Generation, a youth organization. WildNET is a National Geographic-funded project that will deploy community wireless networks and monitoring systems with the aim to monitor ecosystem health via citizen science.

Fellowships & Awards

2021 to date

Mozilla Fellow

2020 to date

National Geographic Explorer

2020-2021

MANRS Policy Fellow

2020

Digital Rights Program Officer East Africa at Paradigm Initiative

2018-2019

Google Policy Fellow at Paradigm Initiative

2018

AFRISIG Fellow

2018

UPROAR Fellow

2017

ISOC Youth@IGF Fellow