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Khadijah El-Usman

Workshop Speaker
Affiliation
Senior Programmes Officer
Paradigm Initiatives
Nigeria
Biography

Khadijah is a legal practitioner, researcher, and a leading digital rights advocate who leads Paradigm Initiatives work in Anglophone West-Africa with a focus to advance Internet freedom, and monitor the legal and policy framework around the region, to ensure that citizens’ rights are protected online.

Khadijah has led multidisciplinary stakeholder groups toward digital rights and freedoms bill interventions in Nigeria, Worked toward advocacy and policy action on elections, Data protection, Artificial intelligence, women's rights online in various African countries. Khadijah has also led capacity building initiatives for civil society organizations, lawyers, law enforcement and the judiciary in areas of internet governance and digital security. She was an internews fellow on Data Accountability, transparency and protection.