Nnenna Nwakanma

Nnenna Nwakanma 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

Nnenna Nwakanma
Nwakanma in 2019
Born
Nigeria

Life

Nwakanma worked with the United Nations for 15 years.[1]

She is the co-founder of 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.[2] She co-founded The Africa Network of Information Society Actors, and the African Civil Society for the Information Society [3] which she serves on.[4] She is also a Vice President of the Digital solidarity fund. 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),[5] Yale University's Access to Knowledge Conference,[6] the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT,[7] the Open World Forum,[8] and The Internet Governance Forum.[9]

As of 2019, she was the interim Policy Director for the World Wide Web Foundation[1] where she supports work on the Alliance for Affordable Internet[10] and the Web We Want.[11]

Fluent in English, French and a handful of African languages, based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, having lived in at least 5 different African countries.[1]

References
  1. "Nnenna Nwakanma". World Wide Web Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  2. "OSI Emeritus Members | Open Source Initiative". opensource.org. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  3. "Board - Annotated | Open Source Initiative". opensource.org. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2009-02-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/osi_public_meeting
  6. http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k2/panels.html
  7. http://iweek.aiti-kace.com.gh/prog.pdf
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-02-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-10-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Team | Alliance for Affordable Internet". a4ai.org. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  11. "Team | Web We Want". Web We Want. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
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