Jenna Fung

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Organization: The DotAsia Organisation
Affiliation: NetMission
Country: Hong Kong
Website:

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Jenna Manhau Fung is a digital policy analyst, content writer, digital literacy Program Director and Community Relations Manager at DotAsia Organisation, and IGF Youth NRIs coordinator.[1] Jenna has been invited to join the youth organising team of the Youth Track for the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since 2022. She has joined The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) as an observer in 2023 and was selected as part of the Research Assessment Panel (Data governance) for the Forum on Information and Democracy’s International Observatory on Information and Democracy in the same year[2]. She is also the author of a newsletter about digital issues and public policy called “Jen Z issues”.[3]

She has been leading a digital literacy program, NetMission Academy, for youth in Asia Pacific, and the Youth Internet Governance Forums in Asia Pacific and Hong Kong since 2018.[4] She was an elected Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (YCIG) steering committee member for the Asia Pacific group for 2022.[5] She has also been an active member in the United Nations IGF as a workshop organiser, moderator, and speakers since 2019.

She is representing NetMission.Asia as one of the ALS Representatives at the Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO) at ICANN. She has also been engaged in the secretarial team of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and part of the organising committee of the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) since 2019.[6]

She is passionate about data privacy and protection, surveillance, social innovation and digital sustainability. She has interned in different fields including business management, company secretarial services, and marketing and public relations in Beijing, Hong Kong and Seville.[6]

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Jenna is drawn as an adventurer-style character with a long yellow coat holding an umbrella. She is standing in a heroic pose to suggest adventure/survival like Katniss from the Hunger Games. Also, her hair is braided like Katniss.

Engagement in the United Nations Internet Governance Forum[1]

IGF 2019 Berlin

IGF 2020 Virtual

IGF 2021 Katowice

  • Co-oganizer, WS#214 Achieving Sustainable Local Tourism and Nature Conservation (Transcript & Recording)
  • Guest Speaker, Road to IGF 2021 Webinar: Ethics in Technology and the Internet (Recording)

IGF 2022 Addis Ababa

IGF 2023 Kyoto

Featured Articles[1]

Interviews and Other Projects[1]

2018

2019

2021

  • Guest Speaker, The 9th Inauguration cum Professional Mentorship Ceremony, A-Team Student Development Program, Hong Kong Metropolitan University Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration (November 17, 2021)

2022

2023

Personal Life

In her personal life, she enjoys dancing, reading and travelling.[6]

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