The 2nd School on Africa Internet Governance (AfriSIG 2014) has just concluded. The five days intensive training brought together practitioners, actors and non actors in the civil society fraternity, academics and Government to discuss the future of internet, the evolution,policies, management and governance structures. The School was held in Mauritius from the 21st- 26th of November 2014. WOUGNET was represented by two of its staff…
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Gbenga Sesan is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, a social enterprise that connects Nigerian youth with ICT-enabled opportunities. This is his reflection on AfriSIG 2014:
“Thank you, Madam Chair”, he said, before going ahead to make a point about which paragraph – in a statement various groups worked on over the past few days – he thought required some form of revision. This form of language is not new to actors within the United Nations system, or similar platforms, but today, delegates are not in such… Read more
Brenda Kite is the rural projects manager of the Women of Uganda Network, an NGO that focuses on the use of ICTs among women, women organizations and youth to address issues of sustainable development.
Having been selected to take part in the second African School on internet governance, I was so anxious especially as the concept was very unclear to me. On the first day of the school, I became a little nervous and wondered whether I would “catch up” with the discussions especially when it got to the so many acronyms ccTLD, ATLD, DNS, ASO,… Read more
Maggie Hazvinei Mapondera works in Communications for Just Associates Southern Africa, a global network of activists, popular educators and scholars in 27 countries working to strengthen and amplify the voice, visibility and collective power of women for a just and sustainable world for all. She graduated from Yale with a BA in Comparative Literature, focusing on African literatures in French and English. She has volunteered with Zimbabwean… Read more
Michael Graaf, from the Right to Know Campaign (South Africa) is a lifelong activist in anti-apartheid, antimilitarist, green, and information liberation fields. His education background is some science, some humanities, some media studies, and some IT. He is the author of this post on peer-to-peer (P2P) name services as a potential game changer in internet governance.
Much of the first day of the African… Read more