Application for Upanzi Projects

[dsamist]

Account URL

https://upanzinetwork.1password.com

Non-commercial confirmation

• No, this account won't be used for commercial activity

Team application

• Yes, this application is for a team

Event application

• Yes, this application is for an event

Project name

Digital Public Infrastrcuture/Goods

Short description

The Upanzi Network is a research lab at CMU-Africa, out work involves supporting the development, deployment, interoperability and sustainability of digital public goods across Africa.
Our team collaborates on open-source infrastructure, security, data, health and their applications to advance inclusive and resilient digital ecosystems.

Number of team members/core contributors

60

Homepage URL

https://www.africa.engineering.cmu.edu/research/upanzi/index.html

Repository URL

No response

License type

No response

License URL

No response

Age confirmation

• Yes, this project is at least 30 days old

Name

Samuel Emmanuel

Email

semmanue@andrew.cmu.edu

Project role

Developer

Profile or website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-eneojo-emmanuel-b78a18b9/

Can we contact you?

• Yes, you may contact me

Additional comments

No response

[1password-bot]

✅ Your application is valid

Application data...

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	"created_at": "2025-06-23T11:01:05Z"
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[jodyheavener]

Hey @dsamist, thanks for your application! You mentioned open-source infrastructure, security, data, and health collaboration - would you be able to link me to some examples of this work? I just need to verify that open (and permissively licensed) work is indeed happening. Thanks so much!

[dsamist]

Hello @jodyheavener , thank you for your response, below are links to some of our projects among others which are still in the pipeline and aren't made public yet.

https://github.com/cylab-africa/mira_project

https://github.com/cylab-africa/fidel_dataset_benchmarks

https://github.com/cylab-africa/honeynet-infrastructure

https://github.com/cylab-africa/RRI_frontend

https://github.com/cylab-africa/RRI_backend

https://github.com/cylab-africa/assisted-auth-wallet-vc

Please let me know if you need for information,

Regards,
Sam,