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Digital Development: Governance, Regulation and Technology in East Africa-- The Cases of of Rwanda and Kenya in Comparative Perspective

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Dubai Initiative presents a series of job talks with candidates for Assistant Professorships at the Dubai School of Government.

This presentation, by Warigia Bowman, a doctoral candidate in public policy at the Kennedy School, examines the efforts of four African governments - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda - to develop and implement formal policies concerning Information Communications Technology ("ICT"). This topic raises important questions of governance, political accountability to rural constituents, the interaction of national governments with donors and indigenous civil society, as well as questions about who should receive particularistic resources, and who should pay for the distribution of those resources.

Date: Time: - Location: Taubman Building - Kalb Seminar Room, Room 275
Digital Development: Governance, Regulation and Technology in East Africa-- The Cases of of Rwanda and Kenya in Comparative Perspective

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The Dubai Initiative presents a series of job talks with candidates for Assistant Professorships at the Dubai School of Government.

This dissertation examines the efforts of four African governments - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda - to develop and implement formal policies concerning Information Communications Technology ("ICT"). This topic raises important questions of governance, political accountability to rural constituents, the interaction of national governments with donors and indigenous civil society, as well as questions about who should receive particularistic resources, and who should pay for the distribution of those resources.

Warigia Bowman is currently a seventh year doctoral student in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Bowman has significant work experience in the public sector at the federal, state and local level in the United States. She also has experience in African NGOs and academic institutions.

Before entering academia, Ms. Bowman worked in a number of U.S. federal agencies, including the United States Department of Labor and the United States Department of Energy. Her most recent federal position was at the United States Department of Justice as an honors trial attorney in the Environment Division under Janet Reno and Lois Schiffer.

During her doctoral studies, Ms. Bowman  acquired significant teaching experience. She has taught (as a teaching fellow) introductory microeconomics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Comparative Politics at the Harvard University Government Department. She also served as a course assistant for a public management class at the JFK School. She also taught economics and research methods for two years at Kabarak University in Nakuru, Kenya.

Ms. Bowman has acted as a freelance research consultant for the Kenyan Government, the International Development Research Center (IDRC) African Technology Policy Network (ATPS), the African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) and the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) since 2003.