Alice Wanjira Munyua

Country:	Africa

Alice Wanjira-Munyua serves as the Project Coordinator for Catalyzing Access to ICTS (CATIA).[1]. She is also the convenor of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANET). [2]

Career History

Ms Wanjira-Munyua is also involved in managing a research and advocacy project for the Communications Rights in the Information Society, which is aimed at promoting an understanding of communications rights and to reform governance in relation to them.

She has extensive experience in project management, radio programming, information and communication policy advocacy, and multi-stakeholder ICT policy development. She has over the years been engaged with the civil society on a number of initiatives involving research, development communication, capacity building, and civic education.

Ms Wanjira-Munyua was involved in mobilizing African Civil Society organizations to prepare input into the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process. She chaired the Civil Society Caucus during the first WSIS Prep Com held in Geneva in July 2002.

Between 2001 and 2003, she worked with the African Womens Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) as programme officer in charge of communications. Ms Wanjira-Munyua had earlier worked as project manager with the Ndizathuzomwe Project Malawi, a project of the UK Department for International Development (DfID), Radio for Development and the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation.

She also worked with Radio Kwizera Jesuit Refugee Service in Tanzania from 1997 to 1999 as project director. Between 1993 and 1999, Ms Wanjira-Munyua served as the programme assistant with the Africa Service of the Vatican Radio.

Ms Wanjira-Munyua holds an M.A. in Social Communications from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rom, Italy, and has also trained in gender mainstreaming, Internet law and negotiation skills at various reputable institutions.

She is serving her second three-year term at the CCK Board. She joined the CCK Board on 11th May 2005.

Researches and Publications

• In 2008 she published a research that was titled Women entrepreneurs in Nairobi: examining and contextualizing women’s choices [3]

• She also wrote a report named as Harnessing The Power Of The Cell Phone By Women Entrepreneurs. [4]

• She also wrote Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Development of African Women in 2004.[5]

World Summit on the Information Society