Nnenna Nwakanma
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Nnenna Nwakanma is an FLOSS
activist, community organizer, development adviser and development consultant originally from Ivory Coast in Africa
. She is the co-founder of The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa which she also co-chairs. She was elected as a board member of the Open Source Initiative
in April 2007. She also co-founded The Africa Network of Information Society Actors, and the African Civil Society for the Information Society which she serves on. 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.
Ms. Nwakanma has spoken at numerous conferences on Open Source and Free Software and other topics including O'Reilly's OSCON
, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) and Yale University
's Access to Knowledge Conference, the The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, The Open World Forum.
In the framework of her Consultancy platform (http://nnenna.org) she offers development advisory and consultancy services to governments, development organisations, donors, non-governmental agencies and business.
Fluent in English and French and a handful of African languages, originally from Nigeria, having lived in at least 5 different African countries, she normally introduces herself as 'African'.
Floss
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activist, community organizer, development adviser and development consultant originally from Ivory Coast in Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
. She is the co-founder of The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa which she also co-chairs. She was elected as a board member of the Open Source Initiative
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product...
in April 2007. She also co-founded The Africa Network of Information Society Actors, and the African Civil Society for the Information Society which she serves on. She is also a Vice President of the Digital solidarity fund
Digital solidarity fund
The Digital solidarity fund was established following talks which took place during the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005...
. Previously, she served as the Information Officer for Africa of the Helen Keller Foundation.
Ms. Nwakanma has spoken at numerous conferences on Open Source and Free Software and other topics including O'Reilly's OSCON
OSCON
OSCON may refer to:*OS-CON, a type of electronic capacitor.*O'Reilly Open Source Convention*Oscon, Open Source CONtract, the most used open-contract in Italy....
, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
's Access to Knowledge Conference, the The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, The Open World Forum.
In the framework of her Consultancy platform (http://nnenna.org) she offers development advisory and consultancy services to governments, development organisations, donors, non-governmental agencies and business.
Fluent in English and French and a handful of African languages, originally from Nigeria, having lived in at least 5 different African countries, she normally introduces herself as 'African'.