Nnenna Nwakanma
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Nnenna Nwakanma holds a triple Bachelors (in the Social Sciences, History and English and a Masters degree in International Relations and Law. She has done large-scale work within International development organisations and institutions in Africa on Information, Documentation and International Relations. Among them, The Home Health Education Service, The Helen Keller Foundation(www.hki.org) and The African Development Bank(www.afdb.org). Co-founder of different pan-African organizations: The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA)(www.fossfa.net), The Africa Network of Information Society Actors (ANISA), and the Africa Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS). One of the major Civil Society Actors in the World Summit on the Information Society, she represents the African Civil Society on the Digital Solidarity Fund(www.dsf-fsn.org), and advises on the Africa Information Society Initiatiave.(www.uneca.org/aisi). Today she is Council Chair of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa.
She is also the Co-author of Our Side of the Divide. http://www.schoolnetafrica.net/index.php?id=1022 http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/capetown04/ourside.pdf
Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-61390&als[theme]=Silenced%20Report
Vision in Process http://www.worldsummit2003.de/download_de/Vision_in_process.pdf
The Incommunicado Reader http://www.incommunicado.info/
At present she works as a Consultant to governments, Civil Society organizations, business entities and International Development Organizations on various domains of her expertise in African Development:Human Rights, Conflict Management,Gender Mainstreaming and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
