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| Arusha Women School of Internet Governance (AruWSIG) in Tanzania |
Arusha,Tanzania: The first ever Arusha Women’s School of InternetGovernance (AruWSIG) took place on the 27th and 28th ofApril 2018 at Arusha Accountancy Institute (AAI). The event was organized byDigital Grassroots Tanzania country coordinator, Rebecca Ryakitimbo. DigitalGrassroots President, Esther Mwema, travelled from Zambia to host a session atthe maiden event that hosted 90 youth participants in Arusha, Tanzania.
Ms. Ryakitimbo is co-founder of Techchix Tanzaniawhich organized the event in conjunction with the Center for Youth Empowermentand Leadership (Kenya) with support from Internet Society Tanzania Chapter,ICANN, ICANNwiki, dotAfrica, SIGediathon, Localization Lab, and DigitalGrassroots. The young participants hailed from Arusha Accountancy Institution,Makumira, and Arusha Technical. The success of the first Arusha Women School ofInternet Governance followed our first ever Kenya Youth Convening on Internet Governance in Nairobi in the same month.
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| Part of the participants at Arusha Women School of Internet Governance |
DAY ONE
AruWSIG kicked off on the 27th of Aprilwith opening remarks from AAI representative Ms. Pamela Chogo. The firstsession was by Mr. Boniface Witaba of ICANNswahili who introduced InternetGovernance (IG) and presented on classifications of IG issues and IG matters.Ms. Sylvia Kanari from Hivos gave a poignant presentation on Barriers to womenparticipation on internet governance. Mr. Matogoro Jhabera of Internet SocietyKenya presented about Use of TV whitespace for rural development.
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| Ms. Sylvia Kanari giving a presentation of barriers of women participation in Internet Governance. |
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| Participants during AruWSIG |
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| Digital Grassroots President and a participant during the Arusha Women School of Internet Governance |
Digital Grassroots President, Ms. Esther Mwema,gave a presentation on Building networks as youth in internet Governance andgot the participants right into networking by first allowing them to identifytheir stakeholder group in Internet Governance, brainstorming in breakoutsessions, and after building connections on how they can build wirelessnetworks to improve internet accessibility in their regions. Ms. RebeccaRyakitimbo then presented Internet Governance Engagement Opportunities beforeMrs. Fatima Walidy, of Techchix organizing committee, wrapped up the session.
DAY TWO
Thesecond day of the Arusha Women School of Internet Governance was dedicated tothe Women SIG ediathon by ISOC Tanzania Chapter. The opening session was the ‘ICANNSWAHILI OUTREACH & TRANSLATION WORKSHOP.’ The first session was an Introduction to ICANNWiki and navigating the sitefollowed by a second session on Copyright issues, Ethical & ResponsibleICANNWiki publishing.
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| Ediathon in progress at Arusha Women School of Internet Governance |
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| Mr. Boniface and Ms. Ryakitimbo moderating the ediathon |
The second days sessions were led by Mr. Boniface Witaba and Ms. RebeccaRyakitimbo. The afternoon was dedicated to the ISOC Women SIG ediathon and top participantswere awarded prizes.
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| Top winners of the ediathon |
The School of Internet Governance has heralded more youth in Tanzania to learn about Internet Governance and some are ready to become Digital Grassroots Ambassadors in Cohort 2 of our program.
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| AruWSIG organizing team at surprise birthday party and farewell dinner. |
And what better way to end two days of the School of Internet Governance than with Pizza over a surprise birthday party of Mrs. Walidy, one of the Techchix organizers?
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