Prudence Kalunga

Prudence Kalunga

Lecturer at ZCAS University

Prudence Kalunga

Prudence Chilufya Kalunga is a lecturer at ZCAS University in the School of Computing, Technology, and Applied Sciences, Computer Science Department. Prudence lectures Programming courses being C, C++, C#, Java, and Python. She also lectures courses in Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Software Research Tools and Techniques, and the development of websites. She is a researcher and has published some journals and conference papers in ICT journals. She coordinates and prepares students who take part in hackathons and competitions that bring about innovation in the country of Zambia. Prudence sits as an Expert judge at the ZICTA innovation competition that is held every year. Prudence earned an MEng in software engineering from Nankai University and, a BSc Honors degree in Computing from Greenwich University. Currently, she is pursuing, a master’s in Data Science at Manipal University in India and her PhD in Computer Science at ZCAS University Zambia.

Views from the Grassroots: Village Banking and Financial Inclusion in Southern Africa

The session builds upon 2023 Interledger F|M awardees, Esther Mwema and Jon Adam Chen’s creative project, 'Sikhula Sonke: Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking.’ Through exploring the practice of village banking in southern Africa, the session will introduce audiences to the grassroots, locally embedded approach to financial inclusion and open payments. Providing a rare opportunity …