Lisa Nyamadzawo
Head of Membership and Capacity Building
Lisa Nyamadzawo

Lisa Nyamadzawo is a Mandela Washington Fellow (YALI 2018) and Head of Membership and Capacity Building for the Internet Society Zimbabwe Chapter. She heads a membership of over 450. Her interests are fostering conversations and innovations in emerging technologies such as IoT, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Digital Currencies. She does this through holding events, panel discussions, workshops and Hackathons centered on emerging technologies and Policy across Zimbabwe. She is actively involved in Internet Governance and was a Youth@IGF Fellow in Paris 2018. She is an Urban Planner by profession and has interests in the intersection between smart city development and inclusive urban development. More-so she is the the Cofounder of Solvus Zimbabwe which runs a flagship project called Green Spaces. She has worked at the Centre for Great Neighborhoods in Kentucky, USA where she was a responsible inclusive community planning.