Chenai Chair
Affiliation: | Research ICT Africa |
Country: | South Africa |
Email: | cchair[at]researchictafrica.net |
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LinkedIn: | Chenai Chair |
Twitter: | @chenaichair |
Chenai Chair manages Research ICT Africa Mobile Pricing (RAMP) Indices database. She has written policy briefs on and mapping new business models on the prepaid market and cost of communication trends. She is also the communications and evaluations officer of RIA. She works on Internet governance focusing on - gender and Internet Governance [1], Africa participation at internet governance forums, Human rights and Internet governance. Chenai has participated in Regional and Global internet governance meetings that include Africa Internet Governance Forum , Brazil IGF and ICANN55 Marrakech as Nextgen@ICANN. Her main areas of interest: women, youth and informal sector and their access and use of ICTs to ensure social and economic inclusion.
SMILE-CITANDA Intern 2013
As an intern, Chenai assisted with ICT and development project on improving water and sanitation service delivery in rural South Africa. She contributed to the e-government section in the final report Community Engagement in Drinking Water Supply Management: A Review [2]
University of Cape Town
Chenai worked as a tutor in Sociology for first and second-year undergrads. She tutored introduction to sociology and Industrial relations
Education
Chenai received a B.SocSci in Gender and Industrial Relations (2010), BsocSci Hons in Industrial Relations (2011) and MSocSci in Global Studies (2014) from University of Cape Town
Publications
- "Gender and Internet Governance in Africa" Gender and Internet Gov. Retrieved 21 Apr 2016.
- "Trekking Through RightsCon 2016: An African Perspective" Trekking Through RightsCon. Retrieved 21 Apr 2016.
- "ICANN 55 in Africa: finding the African Voice" ICANN 55 in Africa. Retrieved 13 May 2015