Enrico Calandro
Non-Resident Associate Fellow
Dr Enrico Calandro is the Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town and a Senior Research Associate at Research ICT Africa.
Dr Enrico Calandro is the Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town and a Senior Research Associate at Research ICT Africa. Over the last ten years, he has been exploring the relationship between digitalisation and development, focusing on digital inequalities. His targeted and locally-relevant research has aimed at shaping cyber policy processes and debates and at crafting evidence-based and informed capacity-building initiatives in the field of cyber policy.
He has worked as an advisor for the e-Parliament programme of the SADC Parliamentary Forum and more recently as an expert consultant on cross border data flow for the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. Enrico is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) and the Chairperson of the GFCE Research Committee. He is also a Member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Constellation of Cyber Centres led by the Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford.
Enrico holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration, Programme on managing infrastructure reform and regulation, from the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town.
Selected publications
- Calandro, E. (2020). Partnering with Africa on Cyber Diplomacy. Directions Blog.
- Calandro, E, Benglund, N, (2019). Unpacking Cyber-Capacity Building in Shaping Cyberspace Governance: the SADC case. Conference Paper. 2019 GigaNet Annual Symposium Program (Berlin, Germany).
- Baú, V. and Calandro, E. (2018). Digital Media and Information Rights, in Hobbs, R. and Mihailidis, P. (Eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy, Wiley-Blackwell, Boston.
- Calandro, E. (2015). Stakeholders' Involvement and Participation in the Internet Governance Ecosystem: An African Perspective. Internet Policy Observatory.
- Calandro, E., Pawlak, P. (2014). Capacity Building as a means to counter ‘cyber poverty’. In: Riding the digital wave. The impact of cyber capacity building on human development. EUISS, report No. 21, December 2014.
