Mustafa Mahmoud Yousif

Mustafa Mahmoud is a citizenship and digital identity advocate with over twelve years of experience working in Kenya, Bangladesh, Jordan, and Myanmar. He co-directs Namati Kenya, where he leads strategies on inclusion, legal empowerment, and citizenship rights, and mentors community paralegals. Mustafa has represented civil society in Kenya’s government–CSO working group on Maisha Namba and received the 2021 hashtag#GoodID Award for Inclusion. His work covers program design, donor engagement, policy advocacy, and technical support to NGOs. He has contributed to publications such as The World’s Stateless Reports and Kenya’s Citizenship and Nationality Rights Case Digest. Outside his professional work, Mustafa is a wildlife and travel photographer, documentary director, and active community volunteer.

Events with this speaker

Day 2

11:00

60m

Hatupangwingwi: The story how Kenyans fought back against intrusive digital identity systems

The session title is fashioned after the Kenyan movement building rhetoric “Hatupangwingwi” which is Kenyan slang meant as a call to action to counter anti-movement building techniques by the political class and resist infiltration and corruption. This is true for the organisation and movement building towards inclusive identity regimes in Kenya. The session seeks to explore the lessons from Kenya’s journey to digitalization of public services and the uptake of Digital Public infrastructure. It digs deeper on the power of us and how civil society could stop a destructive surveillance driven digitalisation thus protecting millions of Kenyans.