Proscovia Svärd is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi. She has formerly worked at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Information systems and Technology, Forum for Digitalization, Mid Sweden University. She is also a Research Fellow at the Department of Information Science, University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria. She carried out her Post-doctoral Research at the School of Interdisciplinary Research and Postgraduate Studies, University of South Africa, between 2016-2017 and completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. She has a Licentiate Degree in Data and Systems Sciences, BA and MA in Archives and Information Science from Mid Sweden University, Sweden and a BSc in Media and Information Science from Uppsala University, Sweden. Bonny Ibhawoh is a Professor and Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Canada. He is a United Nations Human Rights Expert with the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development in the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva. With over 30 years of experience as a human rights educator, policy maker and practitioner, he has taught in Universities in Africa, Europe, the United States and Canada. He is the Project Director of Participedia, a global scholarly network on democratic innovation. He is also the Project Director of the Confronting Atrocity Project, a transnational project on restorative justice at McMaster University.