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 project and is a part of the Women’s Rights Programme. Tarryn is also responsible for the weekly section of GenderIT.org, DJ’s Choice.
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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 2013 Cyber Security and IT Policy Scholar at the United States Telecommunication Training Institute (USTTI) in Washington, DC,USA. He also studied with World Intellectual Property Organisation Academy (WIPO) and the International Intellectual Property Crime Investigators… Read more
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 a Bachelor of Science and Honors Degree in Psychology awarded by the University of Zimbabwe.
Although I am a proud owner of an Honors degree in Psychology, I still could not… Read more
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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APC interviewed Wellington Radu, Head of Programmes at Media Monitoring Africa, and a participant in the African School on Internet Governance, which took place between 21-26 November 2014 in Mauritius.
Wellington Radu is Head of Programmes at Media Monitoring Africa. He is interested in information and communication technologies, human rights and sustainable development.
APC: Why did you decide to join the African School on Internet Governance?
Wellington Radu: While the future… Read more
APC interviewed Nhlanhla Ngwenya, Director of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Zimbabwe), and a participant in the African School on Internet Governance, which took place between 21-26 November 2014 in Mauritius.
Nhlanhla Ngwenya is the Director of the Media Institute of Southern Africa, Zimbabwe. His job entails daily supervision of strategic interventions in promoting freedom of expression and access to information in Zimbabwe through independent and diverse communication platforms.
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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
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
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
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