The Lead Strategist at DigitalSENSE Africa Media group, Mr. Remmy
Nweke would be leading discussion on 'Trends in Online Regulation in Africa' at
the 2018 Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica2018), reports ITREALMS.
Other speakers at the Fifth
edition session of FIFAfrica to be moderated by Nweke includes Sakah Bernard
Nsaidzedze of Pan African University in Cameroun, Legal practitioner and media
practitioner, Mr. Zakaria Tanko Musah of Ghana Institute of Journalism, an
independent analyst, Nanjala Nyabola, Sylvia Musalagani of Hivos Eastern Africa
and Sellina Nkowani from Malawi.
FIFAfrica,
which holds in Accra, Ghana is hosted by the Collaboration
on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) in
partnership with the Media Foundation West Africa (MFWA) between
Wednesday, September 26 and Friday, September 28, 2018 at La Palm Beach Hotel.
Confirming
this, the Research and Communications Officer at CIPESA, Juliet Nanfuka, said, since
inception, FIFAfrica has also served as a platform to mark the International
Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI).
She also said in a letter to Nweke, that “we look forward to your
panel and the insights that will come out of it.”
Further, the session would examine
the series of laws in in Africa which have in recent time proposed or passed
laws and regulations that undermine public confidence in the use of online
platforms and could lead to increased self-censorship by media, civil society
groups and individual citizens, as well as to their withdrawal from online
discourse.
Recall that Remmy shepherds a team
of professional communicators and public relations specialists as Lead
Strategist/Group Executive Editor, to deliver on projects including
coordinating the activities of all the titles under the group; DigitalSENSE
Business News, ITREALMS and NaijaAgroNet.
His team birthed the DigitalSENSE
Africa forum (NDSF) on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D); offering
education to Nigerians on ICT4D since 2009. In 2011, his team introduced the
Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable to offer education and enlightenment on Internet
Protocol version Six (IPv6) evolutions for the benefits of Nigerian
stakeholders.
A graduate of University of Malta
with MA in Contemporary Diplomacy, Remmy
is well-traveled tech-mediapreneur, with expertise traversing media relations,
corporate branding and new media technologies.
He is the author of ‘A Decade of
ICT Reportage in Nigeria’ and the Vice President of African Civil Society on
Information Society (ACSIS). He currently represents the Non-Profit
Organizations Constituency (NPOC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) at Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) among
others.
Nenye Dom/GEE
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