User:Remmyn

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Remmy Nweke is the Lead Strategist, DigitalSENSE Africa Media, an At-Large Structure (ALS) and a member of the Non-Profit Organisation (NPOC); to serve as a vehicle to drive home what multistakeholderism stands for, comprising inclusiveness across growing access to the Internet, openness, privacy, security, diversity and socio-cultural human elements among others. Hitherto, at DigitalSENSE Africa Media, where Remmy leads a team of Strategists, we have consistently focused on developing initiatives that could engender and improve understanding of key issues of importance to our immediate community, which include but not limited to youth, students, women and community-based association to convey Internet efficacy via enlightenment on how best to increase usability positively, especially among the youths, who are furiously targeted as part of efforts at ‘catching them young’ and engendering knowledge via our DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) since 2009 and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable from 2011, which are annual events organized and hosted by my team and structured to serve multi-stakeholder needs. At the sub-regional level, Remmy led a team that successfully organized and midwifed the first-ever West African Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) hosted by Nigeria in Lagos in 2011. In November 2016, Remmy was elected the Vice President, African Civil Society on the Information Society (ACSIS) and has since then lead a team of ACSIS in the LOC of the West African Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) and African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) respectively among others.