Francisca Sassetti was a Research Assistant at United Nations University Institute in Macau in the Migrant Tech project. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she studied comparative politics and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research interests include democracy and democratization, ICT4D, elections, human rights, African politics, and public opinion. Her masters dissertation looked at how new technologies can be used to improve vertical accountability in hybrid regimes. Francisca is passionate about IT and how it can be used to empower people, especially the most vulnerable. She has worked in software development, focused on front-end development to help create more responsive and intuitive software for students. She has also volunteered as a computer teacher in a rural community in Cambodia. In 2017, she was a volunteer for the United Nations Associations in the UK (UNA-UK), where she published an article about women asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. In 2015, Francisca won the award for Best Undergraduate Student from the University of Lisbon.

Francisca holds a MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, and a BSc in Political Science from the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

PROJECT
Migrant Tech