Pria Chetty is the founder and director of EndCode, a network of tech law and policy stakeholders in various African cities. She is a technology law and policy advisor to public and private sector organisations, developing country governments and international organisations. In 2007, Pria founded
Tarryn Booysen is Administrative Assistant at the Association for Progressive Communications, South Africa. She is a South African Bachelor of Arts graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology who currently works on APC’s End Violence: Women’s rights and safety online
Michael Ilishebo is a Law Enforcement Officer at the Zambia National Police. For the last six years he has been working under the Information and Communication Technology Department. He did his Information Technology studies at the Copperbelt University and was also a
The 2nd School on Africa Internet Governance (AfriSIG2014) 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
Dorothy Mudavanhu is a Human Rights Researcher at the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, a non- profit organisation which aims to establish a society that respects all human rights, free from organized violence, torture and cruel inhumane degrading treatment. She holds
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
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
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
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
Collection of tweets that have been part of today’s conversation around AfriSIG2014: It came down from the planner to the pilot, to the stakeholder and now the ironyist. #AFRISIG2014 pic.twitter.com/Ar31sPgo8l — Nnenna (@nnenna) November 23, 2014 Interesting and poetic breakdown of