Meet some MAG members:

Towela has 20 years of experience spanning the academic, private and civil society sectors and is currently working with the e-Africa Programme at the NEPAD Agency (a technical agency of the African Union charged with facilitating and coordinating priority development programmes). The e-Africa Programme is the ICT task team of the Agency focusing on 4 key areas: ICT Broadband Infrastructure e-Skills & Capacity Development, e-Applications and Services and Enabling Environment, Governance and Partnerships.
In the realm of Internet Governance, Dr. Jere is a graduate of the inaugural ISOC Next Generation Leaders Programme; has completed several Internet Governance training programmes offered by the Diplo Foundation (Introductory and Advanced phases; Internet Governance Strategy, Policy and Research), has participated in the European School on Internet Governance. She advocated for and obtained observer status for the NEPAD Agency to the ICANN GAC, helped to launch the Southern Africa Internet Governance Forum, contributed to launching the African School on Internet Governance and continues to advocate for increased awareness among African policy makers of the importance and significance of Internet Governance processes at national and continental level. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts with specialisation in Internet Governance through the University of Malta and the Diplo Foundation.

Radunovic, Vladimir
Mr. Vladimir Radunovic has been the coordinator of Internet governance and e-diplomacy programmes of DiploFoundation since 2005. He also serves as a Member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since 2012.
He has actively participated in the global process since World Summit on Information Society in 2003, and has been a lecturer and key resource person in number of online and in-situ professional educations and trainings in Internet governance worldwide.
His professional focus is on capacity development, broadband and access policy, cybersecurity and Internet safety, network neutrality, open Internet and end-user rights, e-participation and e-diplomacy.
He holds a Diploma in electrical engineering and a Master degree in contemporary diplomacy, and has undertaken a PhD programme in cyber-security. He was born and lives in Serbia.

Emesibe Sergius Ene
Ene, Emesibe Sergius is an experienced telecommunication engineering professional with years of experience in both vendor and operator environments, and with a well-developed strategic planning, commercial and technical skills.
He is currently the transmission core planning manager with MTN Nigeria Communications Limited where he assumes responsibility for the development and management of the national transmission core network (infrastructure & network design; capacity management etc) in support of MTN Nigeria’s strategic objectives.
Emesibe started his career at MTN Nigeria in 2004 and prior to assuming his current position, he had worked as a transmission engineer and technical lead for the same team. He was responsible for the recently concluded DWDM optical network modernization with the integration of a 40G/100G OTN/ROADM next generation optical transport network amongst other strategic transmission core projects as part of an MTN Nigeria network wide modernization initiative.
Before joining MTN Nigeria, Emesibe had also worked as a pioneer staff for ZTE Nigeria limited, a full turnkey telecommunications solution provider. He is an electronics engineering graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and holds an MBA degree from the University of Bradford.

Okite, Judith
Ms. Okite has been involved and engaged in the IG- spheres since 2008, when she first did the Diplo course on IG and attended the 3rd session of the global forum in Hyderabad, India. In 2009 she worked with the East Africa IGF, in 2011 begun working with the West Africa IGF, and in 2012 with the Africa IGF as the FOSSFA IG- Coordinator, which she ably does to date.
She has been and is  an online Tutor on ICT Policy and Strategic planning with DiploFoundation.  Ms. Okite,  has been supporting the works and discussions within DCAD and she is in very good relations with organizations working with and supporting persons’ with disability globally.
Most recently she has set up her own business (Washindi International) consulting with governments, NGO’s etc, looking into the gaps yet to be fulfilled to meet the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and how to accelerate  the efforts at a national level.

Towela Nyirenda Jere


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