Smith Oduro-Marfo

Smith Oduro-Marfo is at the tail end of his dissertation project of the connections between citizen identification systems, surveillance and development in Ghana. The project is drawing on interviews, archival data and documents to understand how development is used as justification for projects in the Global South, such as national biometric IDs, SIM registration and digital addressing, and the implications for surveillance as theory and practice. Smith was recently awarded the IAPP's Alan Westin Privacy Scholar award. Together with Jessica Percy-Campbell and Lynn Ng Yu Ling, Smith was also awarded a fellowship grant for their research paper on the collection of race-identified data of COVID 19 patients in Canada.  He is currently part of the CPSA's jury for the association's Teaching Excellence Award.