Kathleen Ndongmo is an entrepreneur who currently serves as the principal officer of Anqhore Consulting, a management strategy, marketing, and digital media consulting firm she founded in 2011. She is also the Co-Founder and CEO of voKKall, a textile and African print fabrics distributor in Cameroon. A notable voice for digital rights in Africa, she was one of the leading voices against the Cameroonian Internet shutdown of 2017 and actively contributed to the #BringBackOurInternet campaign.

Juliet Nanfuka holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Rhodes University in South Africa where she specialised in Writing and Digital Media. She works at the African ICT Policy think tank, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) where she is involved in digital rights research, training, advocacy and communications. She is interested in the intersections of society, gender, media, and digital content with tech policy in Africa.

Eduardo Carrillo is currently the Project Director at TEDIC, a Paraguayen NGO focused on developing open civic technology and defending digital rights. He is in charge of the Open Government chapter of the organization and participates in numerous working groups with government and civil society actors. Eduardo is interested in LGBTQI rights and exploring the possibilities that new technologies and the internet can bring. He is a researcher in matters of privacy and access to information, and holds a Bachelors degree in International Relations.

Iness ben Guirat received her Engineering degree in 2017 at the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT), within the Mathematics-Informatics Department. She is an alumna of the Thomas Jefferson Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Her background spans a diverse range of disciplines: programming, web design, cryptography, and project management.