Sherman’s vision is guided by a philosophy that a society of tech. literacy and climate conscientiousness, while benefiting from efficiencies and opportunities enabled by an inclusive digital infrastructure, creates the right conditions for sustainable development.
Currently he leads the “Policy and Literacy for Data” thematic area and editorial subcommittee at the Cambridge “Data and Policy” academic research network and its affiliated scientific journal. Most recently he was Senior Executive Fellow at The Digital Economist think tank, and formerly co-founded the multilateral GovStack initiative in his role as Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation’s Digital Impact Alliance, providing a global reference platform to converge development actors to support partner countries in pursuit of a whole-of-society digital transformation approach by the adoption of digital commons. He had in parallel engaged in different high-level norm-setting processes and advocacy windows incl. WSIS, G7, Tallinn Digital Summit, IGF, and others.
Prior to his work in international digital cooperation and policies, he managed the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance at the WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria Control, Elimination and Eradication, and was previously an advisor to the Office of the President at the national Globe Telecom in the Philippines on digital health innovation. He had engagements w. WHO, UN-Habitat, UNDP, Grameen Foundation and other INGOs, and was an industry expert consulting on data strategies and implementing large-scale corporate software systems for multinational companies and public entities in Canada and US.
