Nancy Jane Hafkin is a pioneer of networking and development information and electronic communications in Africa, spurring the Pan African Development Information System of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa from 1987 until 1997. She also played a role in facilitating the Association for Progressive Communications work to enable email connectivity in more than ten countries during the early 1990s, before full Internet connectivity became a reality in most of Africa.
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Nancy Jane Hafkin is a pioneer of networking and development information and electronic communications in Africa, spurring the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from 1987 until 1997.
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