Richard Walakira
Project Associate, Alliance of Democracies Foundation
Denmark
Richard Walakira is a project associate at the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, where he oversees the foundation’s initiatives on democracy, technology, and entrepreneurship. In this capacity, Richard established and now directs a democracy and technology entrepreneurship fellowship. He also leads democratic tech hackathons in Georgia and Moldova and sits in the advisory group of Tech for Democracy, a Danish-government-led effort that strives to make technology work for, rather than against, democracy. Outside of his professional work, Richard is a rapper. He is known as Bana Mutibwa in Uganda, where he grew up, for utilizing his music to advocate for political causes.
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