Craig Jolley
Initiative Lead, Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment, USAID

​Sessions: USAID Digital Strategy (Day 2 Afternoon)

Craig is a Data Scientist at the Center for Digital Development in USAID's U.S. Global Development Lab. His work focuses mostly on the development potential of emerging technologies; recent projects have involved machine learning, blockchain technologies, biometrics, digital financial services, and rooftop solar energy. For about the last year, he's been leading the development of the Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) tool, which aims to help USAID Missions understand their digital operating environment and focuses on issues around digital infrastructure, access, governance, finance, and trade. Prior to coming to USAID in 2014, he studied mathematical models of biological rhythms at RIKEN in Kobe, Japan, and he received a PhD in Physics from Arizona State University. 

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