VoxMapp is an award-winning French social enterprise created in 2013 supporting accountability and good governance through data gathering and community inclusion. We provide advice and technical support in the development of pro-accountability projects using data and machine learning.
Our tools – mobile apps, online software, and methodologies – are designed for efficient problem solving and crisis management in challenging environments, and are useful for a multitude of actors from governments, to development stakeholders and civil society organizations.
We work to create a virtuous circle to improve people’s lives and reduce poverty gaps and believe that communities should remain at the center of our projects. Our solutions concentrate the best of human participation and digital tools for improving decision-making, increasing accountability, and optimizing development opportunities.
Lorenzo Delesgues
Lorenzo Delesgues lived for more than 10 years in Afghanistan where he co-founded, at the age of 25, Integrity Watch, the leading anti-corruption organization in the country, which he directed from 2006 to 2011. That’s where he realized the power of social design to fight corruption, pioneering social audits in post-conflict environments, and launching the Community-Based Monitorings.
In 2012, back in France and dreaming to apply these approaches to the western context, he started to design VoxMapp, awarded the Innovation Prize of the year 2016 by the French mayors’ salon. He applies social design techniques to connect citizens and the state with the objective of making public space shaping a pleasure.
Lorenzo is teaching at Sciences Po Paris a class on “Accountability and transparency in post-conflict environments” and at the design school Ecole Camondo a class on “Sociology and anthropology applied to design and architecture”, where he shares experiences and gets inspiration.
Marta Trigo da Roza
Marta Trigo da Roza is a Political Scientist graduated from Sciences Po with a strong research background and a commitment to finding effective solutions to the global poverty problem. Her research interests include governance, corruption, violence, migration, as well as health and education.
In the past 5 years Marta has studied in Mexico and France, managed humanitarian and development interventions in Africa and the Middle East, performed field-based research in Iraqi Kurdistan, monitored development interventions in South-Sudan, and coordinated data collection projects in Afghanistan. Recently she graduated from the micro-master program of Data, Economics and Development Policy at MIT.
Jean-François Hecquet
Jean-François Hecquet has over 40 years of experience in IT, he has been exposed to the evolution of technology, and successively learning to manage big IBM MVS and BULL GCOS systems, and developing under objective-C, C++, PHP and UNIX. He managed large databases and server network for a major French insurance company.
In 2013 he started to work with DELSOL to develop VOXMAPP, the app and its server and database environment. Jean-François has a multidimensional command of OS workstations, OS mainframe, multiple programming languages such as JAVA, C++, COBOL, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, Server architecture. During his career, he managed teams of over 50 persons.
Karla Alfaro Pizaña
Karla Alfaro Pizaña graduated in Economics and Political Science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo Mexico (ITAM). She also has an MSc. in Geographic Data Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an MSc. in Data Science from ITAM.
Karla specializes in data treatment, analysis, and visualization. She has served as Research Assistant at Harvard University and ITAM, as well as Teacher Assistant at the Political Science Department from her alma mater. She worked as a Data Analyst at the Ministry of Education and as an Intern at the Senate and the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) in Mexico.
She has also collaborated with the Centro de Inteligencia Voluntario (CIV) to aid during natural disasters. Her work on Computer Vision provided the CIV with its first trained Convolutional Neural Network to detect collapsed buildings using aerial images.
Previously, she has been involved in social driven initiatives in the fields of education, poverty, health, and environment. Being born in Chiapas, one of the poorest states in Mexico, she has been on medical and educational missions to different villages in the state.
Priscila Mora Álvarez
Priscila Mora Álvarez is a project developer, activist, and entrepreneur. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Development Practice from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies with a bilingual major in Foreign Trade, with diplomas in development, gender, and project management. She was a Chevening Scholar 21′.
She has experience in fieldwork as an Entrepreneurship and Project Manager at the Foundation of the Americas and Co-Founder of the HandEyes Foundation. She is one of the Young Ibero-American Leaders 2019 of the Carolina Foundation. The only representative from Ecuador in the We Xchange-Women in Stem Entrepreneurship Forum with a full scholarship granted by the IDB and Xcala-BID LAB. Former Regional Director of the Hult Prize Foundation in Ecuador and Financial Coordinator of the Global Shapers Quito Hub.
Tamim Sulaimankhail
Network Engineer and Afghanistan’s focal point, Tamim Sulaimankhail has been working in IT with Integrity Watch Afghanistan since 2018, where he is in charge of the organization’s IT oversight.
He also worked as a lecturer on software and hardware for two years in a private institute in Kabul.
Tamim holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science from Salam University.
Julieta Rivero González
Julieta is a bachelor’s student of Applied Mathematics with orientation towards Data Science and Analytics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
Her main professional interest is to collaborate in the development of technological solutions with social purposes. She believes that data is the most powerful tool when it comes to social issues since solving dynamic real-life problems requires innovative but yet precise approaches.
Julieta participated in a program to teach online math classes to low-income elementary students from her home country during the pandemic. She is also passionate about promoting participation of women in STEM throughout Latin America.
María Fernanda López Juárez
María Fernanda is a student of Actuarial Science and Applied Mathematics with a focus on Data Analysis and Risk Modelling at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) .
Her main objective is to be able to represent information that is not always accessible in order to generate actions that have positive consequences for society. She has participated as a data analyst in organisations that seek to support education.
David Alejandro Figueroa Guajardo
David is an Economics bachelor student with a focus on Data Science for the Public Good at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). He has also done an exchange program on Development Economics and Sociology at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne.
He has collaborated with the Centro de Investigación Económico y Presupuestario (CIEP) to publish an article on the role of taxes on the Gini coefficient and a calculator that values the non-remunerated care work in Mexico. He was also worked alongside professors at the ITESM to visualize research on the economic impact of non-remunerated domestic work in Mexico.
José Javier Orcazas Leal
Javier is a bachelor student of Data Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He studied before at the Lycée Français Mexicain, where he acquired a strong interdisciplinary mindset.
His passion for Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and Deep learning, has brought him the opportunity to work with NGOs, private organizations, and the Mexican Government, in projects ranging from land use & development monitoring to fishing cycles prediction.
He considers data is the key to changing the world.