At VoxMapp we believe that people’s participation in the improvement of public goods is the future of good governance

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.