Nnenna Nwakanma
Nnenna Nwakanma | |
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 Nwakanma in 2019 | |
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Nnenna Nwakanma (Born 1975) is a Nigerian FOSS activist, community organizer, development adviser. She worked for the United Nations for 15 years and she was the Interim Policy Director for the World Wide Web Foundation
Life
[edit]Nwakanma was born in 1975 in rural Abia State (south-eastern Nigeria).[1] Nwakanma worked with the United Nations for 15 years.[2]
She co-founded the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa, which she co-chairs. She is a former member of the board of the Open Source Initiative.[3] She co-founded The Africa Network of Information Society Actors, and the African Civil Society for the Information Society[4] which she serves on[when?].[5] She is also a Vice President of the Digital solidarity fund.[citation needed] Previously, she served as the Information Officer for Africa of the Helen Keller Foundation.
Nwakanma has spoken at conferences on Open Source and Free Software and other topics including O'Reilly's OSCON, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM),[6] Yale University's Access to Knowledge Conference,[7] the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT,[8] the Open World Forum,[9] and The Internet Governance Forum.[10]
As of 2019, she was the interim Policy Director for the World Wide Web Foundation[2] where she supports work on the Alliance for Affordable Internet[11] and the Web We Want.[12]
Fluent in English, French and a handful of African languages, based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire,[when?] having lived in at least 5 different African countries.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Meet Nigeria's Nnenna Nwakanma, a web advocate for African women". 16 April 2021.
- ^ a b c "Nnenna Nwakanma". World Wide Web Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "OSI Emeritus Members | Open Source Initiative". opensource.org. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
- ^ "Board – Annotated | Open Source Initiative". opensource.org. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ "Activities". www.acsis-africa.org. African Civil Society on the Information Society. Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ "Public Meeting of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) 09". archive.fosdem.org. 2009. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012.
- ^ "A2K2 Conference Panels". research.yale.edu. Yale University. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
- ^ "ICT Innovation creating new Markets: Web2.0 and Beyond" (PDF). iweek.aiti-kace.com.gh. The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2012.
- ^ "FLOSS, innovation and competitiveness". Open World Forum. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ "IGF Internet governance Forum: 2013 Opening Ceremony and Open Session Speakers". Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
- ^ "Team | Alliance for Affordable Internet". a4ai.org. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
- ^ "Team | Web We Want". Web We Want. Retrieved 2017-05-07.