Awards

• 2013: ‘Enhancing Humanity’s Collective Wisdom’ Prize. Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
• 2013: Named as one of Africa’s most powerful women in tech by ITNewsAfrica
• 2012-2015: Clarendon Scholar and Desmond Tutu Award, University of Oxford
• 2011: James R. Chen Award for Final Masters Projects, UC Berkeley Information School: Honourable Mention
• 2010: Google Policy Fellowship
• 2009: UC Berkeley School of Information Fellowship
• 2004: Stanford University BASES social entrepreneurship award
• 2003: Stanford Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program Scholarship
• 2003: British Chevening Scholarship
• 2000: Rhodes University Academic Colours

Grants

2015-2017	Principal investigator	Software Sustainability Institute	Data Ethics for Digital Social Science Research
2016	Principal investigator	Leeds University	Researcher Mobility Award: Political Bots Project
2016	Principal investigator	Communities and Culture Network+	The Person in the Data: Digital Methods Toolkit Project
2013-2014	Principal investigator	University of Oxford	Doctoral Training Centre Grant to launch the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OxDEG)
2014	Co-investigator	University of Oxford, Fell Fund	Wikipedia geographies
2007-2009	Principal investigator	Ford Foundation	Local Context, Global Commons
2005-2006	Co-investigator	International Development Research Centre	Commons-sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons
2005	Principal investigator	Shuttleworth Foundation	Copyright, Copyleft and Everything In Between