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Senior Advisor on Global and Regional Internet Governance at APC
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Anriette Esterhuysen is a South African ICT pioneer and social justice advocate. Active in the anti‑Apartheid movement since 1980, she blended activism with technology to expand connectivity across Southern Africa. As executive director of SANGONeT, she helped establish Fidonet links that connected universities and NGOs in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and beyond to global email networks, laying foundations for internet access. From 2000 to March 2017 she led the Association for Progressive Communications, steering key policy programmes. Esterhuysen has advised the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the United Nations ICT Task Force, the World Summit on the Information Society, and the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group. Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a Global Connector and shortlisted for South Africa’s IT Personality of the Year, she now sits on the Global Commission on Internet Governance and NETmundial Initiative. She publishes widely on ICTs, development and rights.
Negotiation processes in the UN are remembered not just for what came out of them, but also for what they were like, who participated, and how they were conducted. People who participated in the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) back in 2003 and 2005 often talk about the process, its challenges and its achievements. more
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