The Lead Consulting Strategist and Group Executive Editor of ITREALMS Media group, Remmy Nweke, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association alongside four others.
Founded on March 23, 2005, the association oversees Nigeria’s country code top-level domain, .ng.
This is just as registration of domain names are handled by NIRA certified registrars, under its Registry-Registrar-Registrant model in operating and managing the top-level domain.
The other four elected into the Board are former pioneer technical contact person on .NG, Ibukun Odusote; former Financial Secretary of NIRA, Biyi Oladipo; former NIRA President, Mary Uduma; and Executive Director Centre for Information Technology and Development, Yunusa Zakari Ya’u.
This is coming as NIRA also at the 15th Annual General Meeting cum election held in Lagos on Friday at The Zone, elected Adesola Akinsanya andMurtala Abdullahi as new President and Vice President respectively.
They took over from Mohammed Rudman and Toba Obaniyi in that order.
Other members elected into NIRA Executive Board of Directors at the meeting included the Editor of TechEconomy, Peter Oluka; Ebenezer Dare of Hostlag Limited; and Seun Kehinde of QServers Networks Limited.
Recall that Nweke, aka dotNG Evangelist, is the Group Executive Editor of multiple award-winning ITREALMS Media group and Lead Consulting Strategist at DigitalSENSE Africa.
He is currently the Publicity Secretary, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers and Chairman, Awareness and Sensitisation Committee, Nigerian Content Consultative Forum on Information and Communications Technologies Sectoral Working Group.
Remarkable member and former Executive Director at NIRA plus the immediate past Vice President, African Civil Society on the Information Society, Nwekepioneered the NIRA eNewsletter as the Chairman, Publicity and served on various committees, including Establishment and Finance, Accreditation as well as promoted the institutionalising of NIRA House and pioneered the NIRA Media College during his term on the board among other initiatives with collaboration of EBoD.
At DigitalSENSE Africa, a project of ITREALMS Media group and an ICANN-certified At-Large Structure, Nweke leads a team that hosts several industry stakeholders since 2009 to the impressive Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum series on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), IPv6 Roundtable, ITREALMS’ E-Waste Dialogue and Digital Rights Series of DSA.
Nweke holds MA in Contemporary Diplomacy from University of Malta with background in new media journalism with over 25 years’ experience in Nigeria and global ICT industry, crowned with several professional awards, including the prestigious Highway Africa News Agency African Journalist of the Year, Africa Siemens Profile Awards and African Information Society Awards.
An active member of the Multistakeholders Advisory Group of Nigeria Internet Governance Forum, Nweke, a former Non-Profit Operational Concerns Representative to the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG-Finance Committee) at the Generic Name Supporting Organisation, is equally the Chairman, Communications and Advocacy at IPv6 Council Nigeria and a member with stakeholders’ interest across the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group; Non-Commercial Users Constituency and Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency; Africa Regional At Large Organisation in addition as a team member of the NomCom Implementation Review Working Group, Internet Society, AFRALO, At-Large Advisory Committee, Language Services Working Group on ICANN website document translation, Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Service, NPOC Policy Committee, NCSG Policy Committee, Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability [CCWG-ACCT] [Ws2-hr] HR subgroup among others.
A former member of the NIRA and ISOC Nigeria Chapter Constitution Review Committee among others, Nweke is an Online Personality and Influencer.
He is the pioneer Publicity Secretary, Open Source Foundation for Nigeria and is the National Coordinator, Media Centre Against Child Malnutrition and pioneer Secretary, Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria (Lagos branch).
Additionally, Nweke is the author of industry books, including: A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria, the award-winning series; Sagacity of a digital revolution; and Role of Nigeria in Peace Keeping in West Africa.”
As an Associate Member (Patron), Nigeria Red Cross, St. Jude Catholic Parish Oshodi-Lagos, Nweke is also an Associate (Patron | Lt. Col), Man of Order and Discipline.
He was admitted into the Knight of Mulumba in 2022 and Leads, Cyber Rights Advocacy Coalition (West Africa).
Further, Nweke, a former Chairman of Awba-Ofemili Development Union (ADU Lagos branch), is lead representative of ADU to the Association of Anambra State Development Unions (AASDU) in Lagos and lead curator of African Media.
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