6th March 2025
🗓️ Thursday 6 March 2025
⏰ 13.00 – 14.30 GMT
In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are delighted to bring you this webinar to highlight women driving digital innovation in humanitarian action.
From closing the digital gap to creating inclusive tech solutions, our panellists will share real-world examples of their impact, the challenges they’ve faced, and what’s needed to accelerate progress. Join us for an inspiring conversation on the power of women in technology to transform humanitarian response and build a more connected, equitable future.
Speakers
Angelina Ndung’u, Project management, technology and UX research professional (independent)
Karin Maasel, CEO, Data Friendly Space
Kat Dixon, Impact and Advocacy Lead, Jangala
Lucy Hall, Data and Evidence Specialist, Humanitarian Leadership Academy [Host]
About the speakers
Angelina Ndung’u, independent contractor
Angelina Ndung’u is an experienced project management, technology and UX research professional with over 11 years experience in the social and corporate sectors. She holds a BSc degree in Engineering and an MBA (Global Social Sustainable Enterprises). She is also certified in Project Management by PMI Global and behavioural design by Irrational labs. Some of the projects and organisations that Angelina has worked with include ADESO (Kujalink), Wasoko, Refugees United and Worldreader.
Karin Maasel, CEO, Data Friendly Space
Karin Maasel is CEO of Data Friendly Space, a global data and technology NGO that equips social impact organizations with trusted digital tools and actionable data. For nearly a decade, DFS has pioneered AI powered solutions within the humanitarian data ecosystem, developing digital public goods like DEEP and GANNET. With 15 years of humanitarian and development sector experience, she has held key positions at Save the Children and Finn Church Aid, and served as Head of the Africa Department at the Estonian Centre for International Development. She is the Board Chair of the H2H Network board, an alliance of humanitarian technical service providers.
Kat Dixon, Impact and Advocacy Lead, Jangala
Kat Dixon is Impact and Advocacy Lead at Jangala, a humanitarian technology charity which connects underserved communities across the world to the internet. She is author of The Periodic Table of Internet Elements, from her work as a research fellow with the Data Poverty Lab (The Good Things Foundation, 2022). She was shortlisted for UK Digital Leader of the Year 2023 with Digileaders100.
Lucy Hall, Data and Evidence Specialist, Humanitarian Leadership Academy [Host]
Lucy Hall is a Data and Evidence Specialist at the HLA with over 8 years of experience in the humanitarian sector. Her focus is on making data and evidence more accessible, easier to understand and on encouraging the use of diverse analyses for decision making and innovation.
Lucy is passionate about inclusive practices in humanitarian programming and in the workforce, enabling true locally led action, and how data and technology can be an enabler in reducing the power inequities that exist in the humanitarian sphere.
Format and benefits of attendance
Interactive format: This 90-minute session will take place on Zoom Webinars and you’ll have the opportunity to interact via the chat and also ask questions via the Zoom Q&A function.
Accessibility: The session will be in English. Live captions including translated captions will be available on Zoom.
Currently, the following languages are supported for translated captions and can be translated between most of the listed languages: Vietnamese, Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Learn and earn an HPass digital badge: As a live webinar attendee, you’ll be able to claim an HPass digital badge in recognition of your engagement in this learning and discussion space.
Webinar resources: This session will be recorded, and a copy of the recording and slide deck will be available after the webinar via this webpage. Registered attendees will receive a post-event email with links to these resources.
About the HLA Webinar Series
The HLA Webinar Series is an online initiative designed to connect, inform and inspire humanitarians from around the world. We promote information sharing and knowledge exchange on topical issues facing the sector.
Our HX Webinars build on the dialogue and themes from the Humanitarian Xchange, an initiative designed to spark new ideas and solutions to create lasting change in the humanitarian sector.