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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 Percy 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 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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