Daniel has lived in Sub-Saharan Africa for thirteen years, working in the area of ICT4D since 1996, including as Director of the NGO, UConnect, under Ugandaís education ministry, where he oversaw the installation of the LAN at ministry headquarters in 2000, a first, with dozens of higher officials connected to the Internet; and has trained hundreds of officials in its use.

The UConnect Schools Project has supplied computers to hundreds of mostly rural primary and secondary schools throughout Uganda, providing access to affordable quality learning by Web technologies to students and teachers, sometimes by Internet, by a variety of technologies it helped to pioneer in Uganda – or more recently by sneakernet – nurturing creativity in under served communities. Overarching guiding principles of the NGO are that projects should be sustainable, scalable and replicable.

A member of the Geneva Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC) and Special Interest Group for Developing Countries (DevSIG), Daniel helped establish and continue to advise on the Uganda Internet Exchange Point (UIXP), and has been involved as a member of the IPv6 Taskforce, and promotes its implementation in Uganda and East Africa. He has been on the advisory board for e-Learning Africa (ICWE) and ELATE (eLearning and Teacher Education), at Makerere University. Daniel organizes or assists in the organization of various ICT conferences and exhibitions, and is the lead organizer for MobileMonday Kampala, helped to form the mHealth SIG and works to reach out with mobile services to improve the health of mother and child at the village level. He has recently joined the Board of Directors for Hive Colab.

He is the Uganda National Advisor for Live Bean, organizing seminars in CRM, People and Operations Management. Daniel regularly presents papers on ICT4D, advises on Internet governance, National Information Infrastructure Strategy and assists in the training of government officials toward e-Gov. He also promotes cyber security training through the New Security Foundation and its Security and Defence Learning Conferences.

He is passionate about the prospects for improving the lives of the people in rural areas of the developing world through mobile applications.