Dr Mamello Thinyane is Principal Research Fellow with the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS). He is passionate about technology innovation and about seeing individuals and communities empowered to lead “their happy” lives. He works within the Small Data Lab at UNU-CS investigating the role of locally-relevant, citizen-generated data to empower individuals and community-level actors towards the Sustainable Development Goal targets, as well as the role of this data within the larger social indicators data ecosystem.