Anriette Esterhuysen

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Anriette Esterhuysen (South Africa) is the Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications, an international networked organisation (established in 1990) that focuses on the use of information and communication technologies by civil society for social justice and development. She was Executive Director of SANGONeT, an internet service provider and ICT training institution for the development sector in South Africa from 1993 to 2000. Prior to that she worked in development and in human rights organisations involved in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. She is a founder of Women'sNet, a national women's network in South Africa and has served on the African Technical Advisory Committee of the UN's Economic Commission for Africa's African Information Society Initiative and on the United Nations ICT Task Force from 2002-5. She serves on the governing bodies of Isis Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange in Uganda, the Global e-Schools & Communities Initiative (GeSCI), and Ungana Afrika, a South African e-rider network.