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'''Alice Wanjira-Munyua''' serves as the Project Coordinator for Catalyzing Access to ICTS ([[CATIA]]).<ref>[http://nomcom.icann.org/candidate-bios-2005.htm nomcom.icann.org]</ref> She is also the convener of the Kenya ICT Action Network ([[KICTANET]]).<ref>[http://www.cck.go.ke/about/board/munyua.html cck.go.ke]</ref>
She is Head of the [[.ke]] [[ccTLD]],<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/user/DynInc#p/c/1E1698DDECE741DE/11/w02FdsFcHNA Dyn Interview at ICANN 42]</ref> the Vice-Chair of the [[GAC]], and was Chair of the Organizational Committee 2011 Nairobi [[IGF]].<ref>[[ICANN 40]] Interview</ref>
==Education==
* Wanjira-Munyua completed her M.A in Social Communications from Pontifical Gregorian University in Italy.<ref>[http://www.cck.go.ke/about/board/munyua.html cck.go.ke]</ref>
==Career History==
* During the first [[WSIS]] Prep Com held in Geneva in July 2002, She chaired the Civil Society Caucus.
* She worked with the African Women's Development and Communication Network. She was the program officer in charge of communication.<ref>[http://www.cck.go.ke/about/board/munyua.html cck.go.ke]</ref>
* She has also worked as a project manager with Ndizathuzomwe Project Malawi.
* She joined the CCK board in May 2005 and after completion of her first term in 2008, she renewed it.
* At several institutions she has trained students in gender mainstreaming, Internet law and negotiation skills.
==Researches and Publications==
Alice 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 [http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-137010-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Read here]
* She also wrote a report named as Harnessing The Power Of The Cell Phone By Women Entrepreneurs. [http://www.grace-network.net/docs/Research%20Reports/KENYA%20Research%20Report%20-%20AW-MM.pdf Available online]
* She also wrote Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Development of African Women in 2004. [http://www.comminit.com/en/node/218026/38 Read here]
==Videos==
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Alice is interviewed by [[Gray Chynoweth]] at [[ICANN 42]] in Dakar, Senegal, on the engagement of Africa in the development of the Internet.
==References==
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[[Category:NGO Worker]]
[[Category:Internet Pioneers]]
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