From dcd9fef29b4f88db8aeb93f301cb12769efa8d51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Abigail Cabunoc Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:36:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add digital grassroots team --- _data/round-5/participants.yml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ _data/round-5/projects.yml | 6 ------ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/_data/round-5/participants.yml b/_data/round-5/participants.yml index 5657ff7..98d7033 100644 --- a/_data/round-5/participants.yml +++ b/_data/round-5/participants.yml @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +- name: Adisa Bolutife + location: Lagos, Nigeria + github: + twitter: bologger + bio: "I am an Electronics engineer and Open Access advocate based in Lagos, Nigeria. Co-founder at Open Switch Africa. I was an Internet Society Fellow to the 2017 United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum in Geneva and I am passionate about advancing a more open knowledge sharing process on the Internet, hence my interest in Internet literacy. My hobbies include cooking and R. " + cohort: D + img: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1us7A9DFZASh1Bj2YSQgpxNjE-AJ5UL5M + - name: Ahinon Sègbédji Justin location: Parakou, Bénin github: JustinyAhin @@ -323,6 +331,14 @@ Other than my main research, I take leading roles in to close the gap between wo cohort: B img: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=10l4K8j0B_oKBvYX00ggtGjYUrJZJsVPW +- name: Esther Mwema + location: Lusaka, Zambia + github: + twitter: hadassahlouis + bio: "Esther Mwema is President of Digital Grassroots - a youth initiative to increase digital citizenship in local communities. She is also an independent Data Analyst and Researcher working to advance the interest of girls safety, women's health and socioeconomic development through her youth-led organization SAFIGI Outreach Foundation in Zambia. Esther is a certified Open Knowledge Advocate, a trained World Youth Alliance member, and a youth Fellow with Internet Society (ISOC)." + cohort: D + img: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1VMoXHppMVD-h0n-juOoppvPxd3fPtu6_ + - name: Fahima Zulfath A location: Salem, Tamil Nadu, India github: FahimaZulfath @@ -481,6 +497,14 @@ projects and organizations both for the State and also for NGOs." cohort: D img: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1_x6zx35CLo3DMdymPOGA6lrFstmMXUrO +- name: Joy Wathagi Ndungu + location: Nairobi, Kenya + github: + twitter: wathagindungu + bio: "Wathagi is a student in her final year of Law School in Kenya. Her interests are Internet Governance, Youth Advocacy, Human Rights and Travel. She is the Vice President/ Co-founder of Digital Grassroots where she has embarked on a journey to increase Digital Citizenship. Follow her on Twitter @Wathagindungu " + cohort: D + img: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1EOE81IBGpg5rUVJL5UVnhnelnXA4139R + - name: Julieta Arancio location: Buenos Aires, Argentina github: thessaly diff --git a/_data/round-5/projects.yml b/_data/round-5/projects.yml index 7c4f04a..d9dd82c 100644 --- a/_data/round-5/projects.yml +++ b/_data/round-5/projects.yml @@ -434,15 +434,9 @@ The community team is a small group of individuals, the content team even smalle description: "Digital Grassroots is a program formed by 2017 Internet Society Youth@IGF fellows, all of whom are below 25 years old. Our program aims to actively engage youths in addressing internet problems at a grassroots level with a bottom-up approach. We host an Ambassadors program to train local champions below 29 years old on internet literacy to accomplish the SDGs through training, mentorship and global community engagement. " cohort: D lead: - - Rebecca Ryakitimbo - Joy Wathagi Ndungu - - Uffa Modey - Esther Mwema - Adisa Bolutife - - Noha Ashraf Abdel Baky - - Katie Watson - - N’Guessan Charlette - - Adja Maty SEMBENE - name: "Digital Safety for Open Researchers" description: "Digital safety is a new and evolving issue in academia. Scholars who wish to work openly do not have time to investigate the topic in addition to their already full teaching and research schedules. Few online resources exist to address these issues in an academic context. We hope to empower researchers/instructors to take charge of their own digital safety through the creation of an online toolkit that can be used at point of need and incorporated into higher education coursework."