Tatenda Chatikobo

Tatenda is a Research Fellow at Warwick Law School. His interdisciplinary research examines health data infrastructures and their interactions with law and (in)equality across diverse global contexts. He is particularly interested in the governance and justice implications of open science approaches to health, including open data systems and open-source software. While his socio-legal critique of digital health is mostly informed by a decolonial lens and critical social theory, he also draws from a range of scholarship in science and technology studies, media and communication.

Tatenda was a Rhodes University postgraduate (MA and later PhD) researcher on a multidisciplinary ICT4D project called Siyakhula Living Lab in South Africa, aimed at providing ICT infrastructure (internet, computers and software) in rural areas. As part of the project, he facilitated digital technology training and research work in a rural area in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa and collaborated with a team of developers at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Italy to develop bespoke mobile applications for rural service delivery. He has specialist knowledge on inclusive methodologies for digital technology research in marginalised contexts with rich and diverse cultural protocols.