Session Two | Nov 12

SESSION TITLE

The role of women, gender inclusive modalities and other diverse community members in network and community sustainability.

 

ABOUT THE SESSION

 

 

ABOUT THE MENTORS

Sol Luca De Tena

Sol Luca de Tena has spent her life living and working between South Africa and Spain, and calls both countries home. She has over a decade of experience in strategic project management within technology development, capacity building, social impact and policy – with a focus on utilising technologies to address environmental and social challenges. She develops collaboration networks between often diverse interests, including communities, academia, industry and administration, and shapes projects that respond to critical needs. Sol is passionate about creating positive, meaningful change through equitable, sustainable interventions. She is currently a director of Zenzeleni Networks NPC, South Africa's first community network, as well as the vice-chair of the Internet Society’s global Community Networks Special Interest Group (CNSIG).

Débora Prado

Débora is a journalist and activist with a background in social communications, feminism and human rights, who has been working with communication projects and strategies alongside civil society organisations since 2013. Her main areas of expertise are women’s rights and promotion of freedom of expression in Brazil and South America. Débora holds a Bachelor's degree in social communication and a Master's degree in scientific and cultural dissemination, in which she studied community networks and feminist infrastructures and technologies. She also joined a two-year action-research project in these same fields with the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) in 2019.