Our Alumni play an active role in advancing the Internet Society’s projects, initiatives and mission. Find out what has kept them busy over the last month:
- Nicolas Fiumarelli (Community Fellow) spoke during a three-part webinar series on Preparing RPKI for the post-quantum cryptography transition. The webinar series was hosted by the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat.
- Eduardo Tome (Community Fellow) was appointed coordinator of the Legal and Policy Working Group for LACTLD, a non-profit organization for country code top-level domain administrators in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Cat Easdon (Early Career Fellow) led a practical introduction to the Cyber Resilience Act and privacy threat modeling at the OWASP Innsbruck event. The OWASP Foundation works to improve the security of software through its community-led open source software projects.
- Paola Galvez (Youth Ambassador) led AI ethics and responsibility workshops for civil servants, executives, and policy professionals in Paraguay, Rwanda, and Switzerland.
- Aminata Dembele (Early Career Fellow) and Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi (Youth Ambassador) were accepted into the Policy Action Lab, designed by the Africa Center for Digital Transformation (ACDT). This lab is funded by the Internet Society Ghana Chapter.
- Yusuf Munna’s (Early Career Fellow) organization, Reflective Teens, won the National Innovation Grant from the Government of Bangladesh for their work deploying AI teaching assistants in under resourced schools.
- Federica Tortorella (Youth Ambassador) is managing a fellowship run by UC Berkley called the Resilient Caribbean Fellowship. As part of the Global Digital Infrastructure Program at UC Berkley, the fellowship focuses on the deployment and governance of the Internet’s underlying infrastructure.
- Ida Nganga (Tutor) was named as the Director of the Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Kenya.
- Alfonce Ouma and Alphonce Odhiambo (Tutors) engaged 60+ children (ages 9-14) in a GONLINE AFRICA Bootcamp in rural Migori. Students were introduced to digital skills and coding.
- Poornima Meegamana (Youth Ambassador) published a paper titled From Uncertainty to Possibility: Early Computing Experiences for Rural Girls. The paper shares findings from an 80-week computing program with 162 rural girls in Sri Lanka. Their study observed increased programming self-efficacy and interest in technology careers.
Our Alumni Network is open to anyone who has completed one of our fellowships, ambassador programs, policy maker programs, or who is a training tutor, or learners who have completed at least one Learning @ Internet Society track.
Are you ready to join? Find out more about the eligibility criteria and how you can join the network.