Category Archives: Fifa participants

Koliwe is a trained journalist with over 15 years of experience as both print and broadcast journalism and has contributed significantly to media rights lobbying and advocacy in Zimbabwe – particularly within the community radio and citizen journalist movements. She currently works as the Programme Officer for Broadcasting and Information Communication Technologies at the Media Institute of Southern Africa’s Zimbabwe Chapter (MISA-Zimbabwe).  Koliwe holds a BSc in Media and Society Studies.

Mary Kiio is the founder and lead consultant of Roshani Consultancy Services. She has worked with various media development organizations as a facilitator, moderator, and mentor for the past eight years. Mary has experience in developing training material and facilitating trainings on democracy and governance, online safety for women, conflict sensitive reporting, and humanitarian disaster management (Lifeline Programming , Refugees and Migration). The trainings are aimed at targeted media, civil society, county government officials and agencies.
Oranisation she has facilitated training sessions for include BBC Media Action Kenya, BBC Media Action Tanzania, BBC Media Action Somalia, Internews Europe, DW Akademie, VSO Tanzania and the Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET).
Further, Mary is a freelance journalist who is committed to telling stories on democracy & governance and climate change issues, as well as, a children’s book author.

Kelly is the Executive Director for i freedom Uganda Network and the Secretary for Gender and disability at the ISOC-UG Executive Committee. He contributed towards the development of the feminist principals on the Net with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). He has Ied digital security trainings for over 700 sexual and gender minorities in Uganda since the year 2013.
His past experience includes working as a program assistant for the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law. He currently on several Boards including for the Environmental Protection Trust Uganda where he is the current Chairperson.
He was part of the panel that launched the Keep it on Campaign at the RightsCon 2016. The campaign is an initiative driven by Access Now to push back on internet shutdowns across the globe. A highlight in 2015 was the winning of the Digital Security Tools Testing Challenge hosted by CIPESA under the OpenNet Africa initiative in partnership with Outbox.

Natasha (Stash) Msonza is a Zimbabwean digital security trainer. She is co-founder of the Digital Society of Zimbabwe, a voluntary network of technologists that specialises in building the digital resilience of human rights defenders at risk. Natasha is currently an Open Technology Fund fellow, implementing a digital security elections roadmap supporting selected human rights defender organisations in the face of increasing digital threats.

Neil Blazevic is Manager of the Technology Program at DefendDefenders (formerly East and Horn of African Human Rights Defender’s Project), a Uganda-based sub-regional organisation working to protect and support human rights defenders and journalists. He organises and implements efforts to improve digital safety practices of human rights defenders and their organisations, aids activists to have a voice online, and supports electronic documentation of human rights data. He has contributed material to Security In A Box and Level-Up, two leading digital security education resources. Neil holds a CompTIA Security+ Certification and a MA in International Development Studies. He is an honourary Muganda since 2011.