Thinyane, Mamello
Principal Research Fellow
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- OFFICE:
- Casa Silva Mendes, Estrada do Engenheiro Trigo No 4, Macau SAR, China
- E-MAIL:
- mamello@unu.edu
- NATIONALITY:
- Lesotho
Research Interests
- Critical Data Studies
- Cyber resilience
- Cybersecurity
- Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development
Education
- Rhodes University (PhD in Computer Science)
- Rhodes University (MSc in Computer Science)
- Rhodes University (BSc (Hons) in Information Systems)
Biographical Statement
Mamello Thinyane is a global citizen who is passionate about scientific research and technology innovation to contribute to the achievement of a sustainable good life for all.
He is a Principal Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute in Macau, where he leads research on the Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience project. This project is undertaking research and developing tools to enhance the resilience of citizens and civil society stakeholders against adverse cyber incidents in smart digital futures. He also leads research on Data and Sustainable Development, formerly the Small Data Lab, which critically investigates the sustainable development data assemblages and develops artefacts to support the active participation of civil society stakeholders in these data ecosystems.
Before joining UNU, Mamello was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, as well as the Director for the Telkom Centre of Excellence in ICT for Development at the same institute. He is a former Visiting Researcher at the Australian Centre of Cyber-Security at the University of New South Wales in Canberra.
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Articles
- Thinyane, Mamello and Christine, Debora (2021). Dimensioning Data Marginalization: Social Indicators Monitoring. Springer Nature, n/a-n/a
- Christine, Debora and Thinyane, Mamello (2021). Citizen science as a data-based practice: A consideration of data justice. Patterns 2, 1-13
- Thinyane, Mamello (2020). Standardizing Social Justice in Digital Health: An HDI-Informed Health Informatics Architecture. International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR), 18(1), 24-43
- Thinyane, Mamello, Bhat, Karthik, Goldkind, Lauri and Cannanure, Vikram K. (2020). The messy complexities of democratic engagement and empowerment in participatory design – an illustrative case with a community-based organisation. CoDesign, 16(1), 29-44
- Thinyane, Mamello and Kirschke, Sabrina (2019). Data assemblages for enhanced citizen participation in sustainable development. Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, n/a-n/a
- Thinyane, Mamello, Goldkind, Lauri and Choi, Moon (2019). Small Data, Big Justice: The Intersection of Data Science, Social Good, and Social Services. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 36(4), 175-178
- Marcovecchio, Ignacio, Thinyane, Mamello, Estevez, Elsa and Fillottrani, Pablo (2018). Capability Maturity Models as a Means to Standardize Sustainable Development Goals Indicators Data Production. Journal of ICT Standardization, 6(3), 217-244
- Thinyane, Mamello (2018). Towards Informing Human-centric ICT Standardization for Data-driven Societies. Journal of ICT Standardization, 6(3), 179-202
- Thinyane, Mamello, Goldkind, Lauri and Tam, Hoi Iam (2018). Data Collaboration and Participation for Sustainable Development Goals—a Case for Engaging Community-Based Organizations. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2(7), 1-8
Book Chapters
- Thinyane, Mamello, Un, Christy and Christine, Debora, “Between Scylla and Charybdis: The “New Normal” Cyber Resilience Posture of Civil Society Organizations” in [New] Normal Technology Ethics: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2021, ed. Mario Arias Oliva, Jorge Pelegrín Borondo, Kiyoshi Murata and Eva Marina Reinares Lara (Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja, 2021), 311-315.
- Christine, Debora, Thinyane, Mamello and Un, Christy, “Privacy in the New Normal: The Implications of Covid-19 Tracking and Tracing Technologies on Privacy and Cybersecurity” in Moving Technology Ethics at the Forefront of Society, Organisations and Governments, ed. Jorge Pelegrín Borondo, Mario Arias Oliva, Kiyoshi Murata and Ana María Lara Palma (Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja, 2021), 399-412.
Conference Publications
- Khene, Caroline, Sieborger, Ingrid, Thinyane, Mamello and Simuja, Clement, Power Participation in Digital Citizen Engagement in South African Local Government: The Case of MOBISAM The Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development (IFIP 9.4), N/a, 2021/05/26-28.
- Christine, Debora and Thinyane, Mamello, Comparative Analysis of Cyber Resilience Strategy in Asia-Pacific Countries IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), Calgary, 2020/08/17-22.
- Thinyane, Mamello and Goldkind, Lauri, A Multi-Aspectual Requirements Analysis for Artificial Intelligence for Well-being 2020 IEEE First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health (REWBAH), Zurich, 2020/08/31.
- Thinyane, Mamello and Christine, Debora, SMART Citizen Cyber Resilience (SC2R) Ontology SIN 2020: 13th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, New York, 2020/11/20.
- Thinyane, Mamello, Operationalizing Data Justice in Health Informatics 2019 ITU Kaleidoscope: ICT for Health: Networks, Standards and Innovation, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019/12/04-06.
- Thinyane, Mamello, Bhat, Karthik, Goldkind, Lauri and Cannanure, Vikram K., Critical Participatory Design: Reflections on Engagement and Empowerment in a case of a Community Based Organization Proceedings of ACM Participatory Design Conference, Hasselt and Genk, 2018/08/20-24.
- Thinyane, Hannah and Thinyane, Mamello, The Use of Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modelling to Understand Online Communicative Ecologies in MobiSAM IST-Africa 2017 Conference, Windhoek, 2017/05/31-2017/06/02.
- Thinyane, Mamello, Investigating an Architectural Framework for Small Data Platforms 17th European Conference on Digital Government (ECDG 2017), Lisbon, 2017/06/12-13.
- Marcovecchio, Ignacio, Thinyane, Mamello, Estevez, Elsa and Fillottrani, Pablo, Capability Maturity Models Towards Improved Quality of the Sustainable Development Goals Indicators Data ITU Kaleidoscope 2017 – Challenges for a data-driven society, Nanjing, 2017/11/27-29.
- Thinyane, Mamello, Small Data and Sustainable Development: Individuals at the Center of Data-Driven Societies ITU Kaleidoscope 2017 – Challenges for a data-driven society, Nanjing, 2017/11/27-29.
- Moorosi, Nyalleng, Thinyane, Mamello and Marivate, Vukosi, A Critical and Systemic Consideration of Data for Sustainable Development in Africa 14th International Conference of IFIP Working Group 9.4 – Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Yogyakarta, 2017/05/22-24.
Reports
- Un, Christy, Thinyane, Mamello and Christine, Debora (2021). Civil Society Organizations' Cyber Resilience – leaving no civil society organization behind in cyber resilience. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello (2020). Localizing the SDGs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises – Participatory Indicators Development in Tamil Nadu – India. United Nations University.
- Christine, Debora and Thinyane, Mamello (2020). Cyber Resilience in Asia-Pacific: A Review of National Cybersecurity Strategies. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello and Christine, Debora (2020). Co-Production of Cyber Resilience in Asia and the Pacific: Abridged Preliminary Report. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello and Christine, Debora (2019). Smart citizens cyber resilience: Enhancing the resilience of citizens in smart digital futures. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello and Christine, Debora (2019). Data Marginalization and Exclusion: Operationalizing the 'leave no one behind' principle in social indicators monitoring. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello, Bhat, Karthik, Cannanure, Vikram K., Tam, Hoi Iam and Goldkind, Lauri (2019). Data intermediation and collaboration with CBOs: Investigating the role and the capability of community-based organizations to intermediate the participation of marginalized and vulnerable citizens in data-driven systems. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello and Christine, Debora (2019). Citizen data for health and wellbeing. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello, Best, Michael L. and Yang, Fan (2019). Participatory Indicators for MSME Sector: Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises. United Nations University.
- Thinyane, Mamello (2018). Engaging Citizens for Sustainable Development: A Data Perspective. United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society.