Alice Wanjira Munyua

Ms. Wanjira-Munyua has extensive experience in project management, radio programming, information and communication policy advocacy, and multi-stakeholder ICT policy development. She has over the years been engaged with the civil society on a number of initiatives involving research, development communication, capacity building, and civic education.

Currently, she is the Project Coordinator for Catalyzing Access to ICTs (CATIA), a project geared towards promoting increased and more effective advocacy to speed up changes in ICT policy and regulatory frameworks. She is also the convenor of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTNet), which is an interdependent multi-stakeholder network, working with government on ICT policy formulation.

Ms Wanjira-Munyua is currently engaged in a research on Gender Research in Africa on ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) project supported by the Canadian International Development and Research Centre (IDRC), which seeks to document the use of ICTs for Kenyan Women's empowerment.

She is also involved in managing a research and advocacy project for the Communications Rights in the Information Society, which is aimed at promoting an understanding of communications rights and to reform governance in relation to them. The project will develop an advocacy toolkit to support civil society groups to respond to communication rights issues within a national context but also in the context of an emerging global civil society.

Ms Wanjira-Munyua has been involved in mobilizing African Civil Society organizations to prepare input into the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process. She chaired the Civil Society Caucus during the first WSIS Prep Com held in Geneva in July 2002.

Between 2001 and 2003, she worked with the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) as programme officer in charge of communications. Ms Wanjira-Munyua had earlier worked as project manager with the Ndizathuzomwe Project Malawi , a project of the UK Department for International Development (DfID), Radio for Development and the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation.

She also worked with Radio Kwizera Jesuit Refugee Service in Tanzania from 1997 to 1999 as project director. Between 1993 and 1999, Ms Wanjira-Munyua served as the programme assistant with the Africa Service of the Vatican Radio.

Ms Wanjira-Munyua holds an M.A. in Social Communications from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome , Italy , and has also trained in gender mainstreaming, Internet law and negotiation skills at various reputable institutions.

[edit] Contact

• e-mail: alice [at] apc.org
• 254 020 4443424

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• ALAC