Matt Haikin

Ask me how I can help with your digital development / digital transformation / ICT4D strategy, product development and/or project management.

I have worked at the junction of development programming & digital technologies for 12+ years since completing my Masters’ degree in ICTs for Development in 2012; in UK charities, INGOs, Southern civil society and the private sector, up to Director/co-CEO level.

I am equally comfortable in strategic advisory roles, as leading teams in project delivery or product development – as a consultant or as an employee. I apply strategic critical thinking and a collaborative approach to my work whether that be thought partnership, policy development, network building or tangible product and project delivery.

I have a particular interest in and experience of participatory and inclusive approaches to the use of digital technologies in a development context, recently broadened to explore how the #ShiftThePower movement and Digital Transformation can work together effectively, and am recognised as something of a ‘thought leader’ in this space.

Previous jobs and clients include Frontier Tech Hub, ILO, Save the Children UK, NetHope, CRS, UNICEF, On Our Radar, the UN Foundation’s Digital Impact Alliance, Practical Action, Chemonics, FHI 360, Oxfam GB and Aptivate (including work for the World Bank, DFID and the Nigerian government) – working and living in the UK, Kenya, Peru, Brazil and the US.

My current primary interest is exploring the intersection of Digital Transformation and the #ShiftThePower movement – what opportunities are we missing to harness the changes in power dynamics that digitalisation brings, to support shifting potwe, decolonialisation and locally led development. (I also convene a global online community on this topic, you can signup here if interested)

Other core skills focus around Strategic advice and guidance, Digital development policy, ICT4D implementation (including project management, facilitation and relationship building), and Research.