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Anriette Esterhuysen
Anriette Esterhuysen in 2014
Occupation	Executive Director of APC
Years active	1980s - present
Known for	Computer Networking Pioneer in South Africa

Anriette Esterhuysen is a human rights defender and computer networking pioneer from South Africa. She has pioneered the use of Internet and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to promote social justice in South Africa and throughout the world, focusing on affordable internet access. She has been the executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications since 2000.

Education and work

Esterhuysen holds a BA in Social Science, a Post Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Science and a BA in Musicology from the University of the Witwatersrand.

From 1980 onwards, she was active in the struggle against Apartheid. She is currently a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum. She is a founder of Women's Net in South Africa and has served on the Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and on the boards of the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative and Ungana-Afrika.

Prior to joining APC Esterhuysen was executive director of South African Internet service provider member SANGONeT. Between 2002 and 2005, she was a member of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force.

Awards and achievements

She was one of five finalists for IT Personality of the Year in South Africa in 2012. She was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector". In 2015, she was the winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation' s Pioneer Awards.

Publications

• ‘Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security’, for the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Chatam House (2016)
• ‘Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy’, for Amnesty International (2014)
• ‘¿Por qué enfocarnos en los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales?’, in América Latina en Movimiento (2016)
• ‘Women's human rights in the Information Society’, in Human Rights in the Global Information Society (2006)
• ‘The Telecentre Cookbook for Africa: Recipes for self-sustainability‘, for UNESCO (2001)
• ‘The role of the Internet in facilitating regional linkages in Southern Africa’ (1995)

References

1. "Anriette Esterhuysen". SheSource. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
2. Cashmore, Simon. "Fighting a good fight". Brainstorm Magazine. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
3. "IT Personality and Visionary CIO 2012". Retrieved 2017-04-05.
4. "2013 Inductees". Internet Hall of Fame. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
5. "Anriette Esterhuysen". Internet Hall of Fame. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
6. "EFF Announces Pioneer Awards Winners". Retrieved 2017-04-05.

• Women Internet pioneers
• People associated with networking industry
• Apartheid in South Africa
• Human rights activists
• Internet governance
• University of the Witwatersrand alumni