Joyce Ajayi (’16) has co-authored the second edition of “Access Arkansas: County-Level Web Transparency.” Ajayi is a policy analyst for the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, an Arkansas-focused research center housed in the College of Business at the University of Central Arkansas.
Co-authored with Dr. Mavuto Kalulu, the study focuses on web transparency in Arkansas. Access to the internet has increased drastically in Arkansas’s rural areas, from 16 percent in 2013 to 58 percent in 2016. Ajayi and Kalulu rank each Arkansas county in transparency by how much financial, political, and administrative information their websites contain.
In addition to her role with ACRE, Ajayi is an attorney and policy specialist with over 10 years of experience working with local and international organizations that advance the rights of vulnerable children and women across the globe. She is a candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Leadership Studies program at the University of Central Arkansas.
As a Clinton School student, Ajayi was part of a team that evaluated the progress of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance’s statewide campaign to end hunger. She traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, to create an evaluation plan for the Lagos State Waste Management Authority’s recycling project. For her Capstone project, she developed an Evaluation Plan for the Legal Operations attorney training program at the Office of Chief Counsel, DHS.
In addition to her Master of Public Service, she holds and law degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria and the Nigerian Law School. Her work has been accepted for publication in the Southwest Business and Economic Journal. She also co-authored the first edition of this report.
Responses