Category Archives: Fifa participants

Nanjira is a researcher, policy analyst and advocacy strategist interested in and working on understanding the unfolding impacts of ICT adoption and how those impact governance, innovation, entrepreneurship and societal culture, with a keen focus on gender implications.
She is currently the Digital Equality Advocacy Manager at the Web Foundation, where she manages advocacy efforts to promote digital equality in access to and use of the Web, with a particular focus on the Foundation’s Women’s Rights Online work. She was previously the Research Lead at iHub, Nairobi, where she provided strategic guidance for growth of technology research in the East Africa region and supported the team to surface information useful for the emerging technology ecosystem in Africa.
Nanjira is also a Trustee at mySociety (UKCOD), sits on the Advisory Board (Africa) for Sum of Us, and is also a board member at Kenya’s Media Policy Research Centre, with whom she has published a working paper on the changing media landscape in the country as impacted by social media.  She is supporting the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment by working with various leaders to demonstrate high-level leadership and renewed commitment and action towards making women’s economic empowerment a reality in our lifetime.

Moses is a political scientist working on policy processes around information communication technologies. He is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) based at the Strathmore Law School in Nairobi, Kenya.
He is also the curator of ictpolicy.org a repository aggregating ICT laws and policies in Africa and the co-founder of Jadili, a public platform powering remote participation in shaping proposed laws through aggregation of annotations and commentary by relevant public(s).
Further, Moses specialises in information controls and counter-controls, privacy, human rights in the digital ecosystem, cybersecurity, Eastern Africa, multidisciplinary research and their attendant policies. I also happen to know of good coffee from a distance, if that counts.

Enrico Calandro (PhD) is a senior researcher at Research ICT Africa. Prior to joining Research ICT Africa, he worked as a technical advisor for the ICT programme of the SADC Parliamentary Forum in Namibia, within the UN technical cooperation framework. He also has experience in the ICT private sector as a business developer.
He has worked for the European Commission, Information Society and Media DG as a trainee after completing his Master’s degree. He holds a PhD in Business Administration specialising in telecommunications policy from the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, and a Master degree in Communications’ sciences from the University of Perugia, Italy. He is a recipient of the OTF fellowship on information controls, the Amy Mahan scholarship award for the advancement of ICT policy in Africa, and the UNDESA fellowship for international cooperation.

Adeboye is the Paradigm Iniative Nigeria (PIN)’s Program Manager, ICT Policy. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. In addition, he has Professional Certification from the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations as well as Certificate of Advanced proficiency in ICT systems Administration and Network Management.
He was co-founder of The MonkMedia Yellow Pages; A free advert listing publication that enables businesses to list or advertise their business, where he worked as Operations coordinator. Prior to Joining PIN, he was the Head of Business Development and Client Support Service at Tawona Workspaces Ltd.

Mailyn Fidler is a scholar and advocate studying the exercise of power in the Internet society. She focuses on Internet legislation in developing countries, grassroots protests against government surveillance, and international politics and law relating to surveillance technologies and practices. She is currently a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.