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]

Education

• 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.

Career History

• 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 Women's 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.

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

Researches and Publications

Alic has over the years been engaged with the civil society on a number of initiatives involving research and development communication

• 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