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Session Two | Sep 8

SESSION TITLE

The experiences of women and gender-diverse folks in policy advocacy spaces in the CN Ecosystem


About the Mentors

Sylvie Siyam

Sylvie Siyam is a senior Engineer, Electromechanician and Energetician, Expert in local development. From 1981 to 2019, she worked for the Cameroonian administration and occupied various positions of responsibility. In these positions, she contributed to a better understanding of the needs of local communities and to their satisfaction. She has also contributed to the design and implementation of several capacity-building programs for elected officials, including women, notably on local leadership and local management. President of the NGO PROTEGE QV (member of APC) that works on leadership, ICT4D and environment protection, she is much focused on promoting female leadership, access to ICT and the Internet for all. In these roles and as a member of the board of directors of APC, she has a strong experience of evolution in policy spaces.
Sylvie is the author of several guides on advocacy, leadership and gender mainstreaming.

Josephine Miliza

Josephine Miliza is a network engineer passionate about enabling communities in Africa to leverage digital technologies for socioeconomic empowerment. In 2016 she started working as the project manager for TunapandaNET, a community network in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya that focuses on promoting access for all, adoption of digital technologies and ICT capabilities for the local community. She is also the founder of Tech Dada, a women-in-tech initiative within Tunapanda Institute that seeks to educate, equip and empower young women and girls to become innovators and agents of change in the 21st century. She has become a champion for community networks in Africa, participating in organising the Africa community networks summit, awareness building, and capacity building forums. Her current interests are in bottom-up sustainable connectivity models and creative approaches to an enabling environment that fosters entrepreneurship and innovation, especially for youth and women in Africa. As the Africa regional coordinator Josephine is working under the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet). Josephine is the regional coordinator nominated by KICTANet, the project implementing partner in Africa.


ABOUT THE SESSION

This session, mainly in participatory mode, is oriented firstly to give some insights about the main actors in ICT and internet policy, secondly to exchange and learn from sharing stories of the realistic picture of the spaces of policy.
From that, animators and participants will go to identify the challenges and opportunities that they might be coming up against. The whole talk will be illustrated by stories on the experiences of women in policy spaces.

In this session you can expect to leave the room with the below takeaways:

  • The experiences of women in policy spaces
  • The realistic picture of the spaces of policy that exist
  • The challenges and opportunities that they might be coming up against

Structure

▪ Introduction
▪ The landscape of actors in internet and ICT policies
▪ Pillars of community networks
▪ A realistic picture of the spaces of policy in the CN ecosystem
▪ Challenges and opportunities
▪ Closing

Mentor Notes

Session Presentation 
Experiences_SPACE22_Presentation.pdf

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