Karen Banks

Karen Banks is a British computer networking pioneer who was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a Global Connector. In the 1990s she maintained GnFido, a pioneering gateway run by the non-profit ISP GreenNet that used store and forward techniques to provide Internet access for individuals and organizations across Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe. She was one of the founders of the Association for Progressive Communications' Women's Networking Support Programme in 1993 and coordinated it from 1996 to 2004, and she later coordinated APC's global Internet rights work in Europe before becoming its operations director. In 2004 she received the Anita Borg Award for Social Impact.