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<h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">#IFF2016: Google,
AccessNow, Facebook, CIVICUS, Internews Partner With PIN To Host
Internet Freedom Forum In Abuja, Nigeria</h1>
<p>Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, with support from AccessNow,
Google, Facebook, Civicus and Internews, will host this year’s
Internet Freedom Forum in Abuja, on March 8 and 9, 2016. The
theme of the pan-African event that will host delegates from
Cameroun, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Kenya, Nigeria, South
Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, among others, is <strong><em>Rights
are Rights, Online or Offline. </em></strong></p>
<p>Internet Freedom Forum is an annual forum that creates a
platform for conversations on indices around Internet Freedom
around the world. Internet Freedom Forum 2016 (#IFF2016) focuses
on indices around Internet Freedom in African countries and the
need to codify citizens’ right online. “The Digital Rights and
Freedom Bill, which seeks to codify online rights in Nigeria,
will be reviewed at the forum and presented as a model for
adoption by other African countries,” according to ‘Gbenga
Sesan, Executive Director at Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN).</p>
<p>The keynote for the event will be delivered by Nani Jansen,
Legal Director at Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI). She has
acted in freedom of expression cases before national and
international courts, and human rights tribunals, including the
European Court of Human Rights, the African Court on Human and
Peoples’ Rights, the East African Court of Justice, the UN Human
Rights Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.</p>
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<p>“Several experts, Internet Freedom advocates, journalists and
government officials from all across Africa have confirmed
participation at the event,” according to Adeboye Adegoke,
Program Manager (ICT Policy) at PIN. Some of the confirmed
panelists at the event include Hon. Chukwuemeka Ujam, Vice
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on
Telecommunications; Edet Ojo, Executive Director, Media Rights
Agenda; Titi Akinsanmi-Bolarinwa, Lead, Policy and Government
Relations, Google; Ebele, Okobi, Head of Public Policy, Africa,
Facebook; Ephraim Kenyanito, Sub-Saharan Africa Policy Analyst,
AccessNow; Seun Onigbinde, Co-founder, BudgIT; popular blogger,
Japheth Omojuwa; award-winning journalist, Tolu Ogunlesi; ‘Yemi
Adamolekun, Executive Director, Enough is Enough Nigeria; and
‘Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria.</p>
<p>The Nigerian Minister of Communications, National Security
Adviser, Director General of Department of State Security
Service, and Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria
Communications Commission have been invited to provide
government perspective to the conversation.</p>
<p>PIN’s Chief Operating Officer, Tope Ogundipe, urged interested
individuals and organizations to immediately register on the
event’s website, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pinigeria.org/iff">www.pinigeria.org/iff</a>,
“…because participation at the event is strictly by invitation.
Successful applicants will be contacted by the #IFF2016
Secretariat at Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, and application to
attend will be treated on a first-come, first-served basis until
February 20, 2016”.</p>
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