Turn diaspora expertise into digital inclusion action for Africa.

Son, Community Worker, Father.

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Ade Shokoya is the founder of Ajyle AI, a UK-based responsible AI consultancy. He works with organisations to help them adopt AI safely and sustainably — without leaving people behind in the process. With two decades of experience across agile, change management and AI training, Ade has seen first-hand what happens when technology adoption is designed around systems rather than people. His work challenges that pattern. He brings that same lens to digital inclusion: the question is not just whether communities have access to AI, but whether that access is built on foundations that are safe, equitable and genuinely useful.

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A series of changes to immigration and nationality laws since 1948 culminated in the 'Windrush Scandal' in 2018. People from the Caribbean — mainly Jamaica — who had lived in the UK for fifty years or more found themselves being told they had no legal status in the UK. They were sacked from their jobs, denied benefits, NHS treatment, put in detention, and some deported. The UK Government has apologised, offered compensation, and pledged to right the wrongs done to the Windrush Generation. The Wendy Williams 'Windrush Lessons Learned Review' makes thirty recommendations for the Home Office, and the first states there has been harm done to the African Caribbean community as a whole. The question, therefore, is: what is the harm — and more importantly, what can be done to repair the damage to community cohesion? Anthony Brown is the co-founder of Windrush Defenders Legal C.I.C. (WD Legal) and Chairman of Preston Windrush Generation and Descendants UK. He is a member of the Home Office's Windrush Stakeholder Advisory Group and of Windrush National Organisation. WD Legal runs weekly pro bono surgeries to help victims of the Windrush Scandal apply for documentation confirming their legal status and then for compensation. WD Legal is campaigning for law reform to protect future generations through a 'Windrush Act' that would place a legal duty on public bodies to tackle the race disparities exposed by the Government's Race Disparity Audit 2017, and establish a Commonwealth Community Cohesion Fund. Anthony himself faced the threat of deportation in 1983 when he fell foul of the 1971 Immigration Act for living outside the UK for more than two years.

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Ex-military communication operator with a deep passion for IT — including Web3, blockchain, cryptocurrency and AI. From Radio Telegraphist in the Army to a 29-year IT career spanning the UK Home Office, NHS and KPMG, Clifford pivoted to blockchain in 2017 and founded HAiV3 (HEXucation A.i. V3), raising $122,000 to transition the education platform onto Web3. He led the team that installed the first IT suite for a primary school in a Ghanaian region, and today integrates Generative AI into the HAiV3 curriculum.

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Decolonising the Archive bridges the gap between communities and archives, and facilitates the remembering of traditional and sacred technologies.

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Elleni-Jaye Anderson-Grey is an experienced integrative counselling therapist, life coach and mediator. She runs Endeavour Coach Counselling, a small private online practice supporting individuals and helping couples and colleagues manage conflict and find resolutions. Endeavour CCM is dedicated to supporting people who have been through, or are currently going through, life-disrupting experiences and trauma — offering counselling, coaching and mediation depending on need. Counselling provides a confidential, quiet and safe space to explore feelings, issues and strategies to resolve or gain greater insight into personal or emotional challenges, with the goal of achieving positive change. Life coaching helps people clarify goals, improve performance, overcome obstacles, and create meaningful personal or professional change through structured conversations, accountability, and planning. As a mediator she acts as an impartial third party, facilitating constructive conversations and helping parties reach workable agreements. All services are offered online to make support more accessible. Cooperation, she believes, is the bedrock of any group with a common aim — and Endeavour CCM exists to build and support individuals, and through them the family, community and wider society.

Lena Hatchett is the Principal Investigator for Proviso Partners for Health, a nationally recognized community-led coalition to promote racial and economic pathways for equity.

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Born in Italy to Somali heritage and raised in Portugal by English and Italian adoptive parents, Nadia Parsons has spent much of her life working across cultures and communities. She represented Portugal within SCORE (Standing Conference on Racial Equality), the European anti-racism network founded by the late Bernie Grant MP. Trained as a dental technician, she later worked extensively in IT support and consultancy for nonprofit organisations in London through Southwark Action for Voluntary Organisations (SAVO). Since relocating to Merseyside in 2018, Nadia has worked in the arts, education, and community engagement sectors — founding an art gallery, scripting and acting in short films, and coordinating projects for a Black-led arts organisation in Liverpool. Her current interests focus on digital inclusion, virtual communities, and the potential of immersive technologies to create accessible spaces for learning, culture and community collaboration.

Njoroge A. Gitomeh is a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) finalist at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, specializing in smart farming adoption among dairy smallholder farmers in Kenya. A smart farming researcher, agribusiness innovator and enterprise systems expert with over 20 years of experience in ERP (SAP and Odoo), supply chain design and digital transformation. He leads multi-institutional student research teams from the University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University, JKUAT and Egerton University — focused on smart incubators, ERP systems and AI-enabled tools that transform schools and universities into production and innovation ecosystems aligned with the Jua Kali economy.

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Dr Remi Majekodunmi is a UK-based academic, entrepreneur, social innovator, and Founder/CEO of AfricaChange.org, a civic technology platform dedicated to empowering African citizens through digital engagement, advocacy, and social impact initiatives. With a background in health and social care, education, community development, and digital innovation, Dr Majekodunmi has spent many years working to bridge gaps between technology and underserved communities. His work focuses on leveraging digital platforms to improve civic participation, healthcare awareness, social accountability, and community empowerment across Africa and the African diaspora. Through AfricaChange.org and other technology ventures, he champions practical digital solutions that are culturally relevant, accessible, and designed to address real challenges facing African communities.

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Cummin Up Caribbean, established 1991 in the London borough of Lewisham, is home of the Cocojerk JA Burger and a signature BBQ sauce. The menu runs from natural juices and curry goat to jerk chicken, fried rice, and vegan curry — there is something for everyone.

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Teacher of the Organic Afrikan Paradigm. A teacher for decolonization, repair and empowerment of Afrikans globally. Since May 2020 the OAP has been doing the work of education through the One Map Africa Sankofa Classroom.