Sesan, the prominent Nigerian digital rights expert,
founded the Pan-African social enterprise, Paradigm Initiative, in 2007, and
had led the organisation to become a leading digital rights and inclusion
advocacy organisation in Africa.
ITRealms gathered that ‘Gbenga was Nigeria's first
Information Technology Youth Ambassador and served as the Vice Chair of United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s African Technical Advisory Committee.
In 2006, he was appointed a member of the Nigerian Presidential Task Force on the Restructuring of the Nigerian Information Technology and Telecommunications Sectors. He was appointed a member of the Presidential Committee on Roadmap for the Achievement of Accelerated Universal Broadband Infrastructure and Services Provision in August 2012.
In 2006, he was appointed a member of the Nigerian Presidential Task Force on the Restructuring of the Nigerian Information Technology and Telecommunications Sectors. He was appointed a member of the Presidential Committee on Roadmap for the Achievement of Accelerated Universal Broadband Infrastructure and Services Provision in August 2012.
He now joins other non-state stakeholders on the advisory
network of FOC. According to its mission statement, the Freedom Online
Coalition is a group of governments deeply committed to the human rights and
fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“We believe that the human rights that people have
offline must also be protected online. We commit to working together, and with
all others who share these views, to support Internet freedom and protect human
rights online worldwide,” the mission statement reads.
Nonye Dom/GEE
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