Anicia Peters

degree, she earned the Rector's Medal for outstanding achievement and the Prof. Yrjö Neuvo Award for the best graduate in information technology at the institution.

[2][7] Her current research work is on social computing, gender in digital technologies, gamification, and e-participation such as e-government and e-health.

[8] She also interned at Intuit in the Silicon Valley as user experience (UX) researcher prior to accepting a postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon State University.

[9] Here, she worked under Margaret Burnett, who co-founded the area of end-user software engineering and developed two visual programming languages.

She also initiated and co-chaired the inaugural Africa Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI) in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2016 and served as special advisor to AfriCHI2018.

[19][20] President Hage Geingob appointed Peters as the chairperson of the Task Force on the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Namibia in July 2021.