Sarah Kiden

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Organization: Mozilla Foundation (Hosted by Research ICT Africa)
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Region: Africa
Country: Uganda
Email: skiden[at]gmail[dot]com or sarahk[at]mozillafoundation[dot]org
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Sarah Kiden is a technologist and researcher, passionate about open source solutions, Internet Policy and public interest technology. She is a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow[1], hosted by Research ICT Africa (RIA) in Cape Town, South Africa. She is working on an Internet measurements project[2], focusing on broadband performance, Internet peering and users behavior in Africa. Prior to this, she led the systems team at Uganda Christian University as the Head of Systems, and was a Web & eLearning Administrator before that[3][4].

She has also contributed to capacity building initiatives at the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU), training network and system engineers on aspects like campus network design, network monitoring and system security.

Kiden's first ICANN meeting was ICANN 47 in Durban. She is involved with ICANN through ISOC[5], though her entry into Internet governance was through DiploFoundation. She was selected as an ICANN Fellow for ICANN 51 in Los Angeles.[6] She has additionally attended ICANN 50 in London, United Kingdom and ICANN 55 in Marrakech, Morocco and all ICANN meetings after that. She is currently involved with the At-Large Community and is the AFRALO Secretariat. AFRALO is the African Regional At-Large Organisation.

Kiden holds an MSc in Information Systems and BSc in Information Technology.

References

  1. 2017/2018 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows, Mozilla.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. Africa Internet measurements, Github.com; Retrieved 12 April 2018
  3. Sarah Kiden, LinkedIn.com. Retrieved 2016 March 8.
  4. Mothers of the Internet, ICANNWiki.org; Retrieved 12 April 2018
  5. ICANNWiki Interview, July 2013.
  6. ICANN Fellows Announced for ICANN 51 ICANN.org; Retrieved 21 July 2014