Margaret NGWIRA

Margaret NGWIRA

Margaret NGWIRA

Founding Director | Malawi | UbuntuNet Alliance

Margaret NGWIRA, a founding Director of UbuntuNet Alliance, is currently Special Projects Coordinator based at the Secretariat in Malawi. A librarian by profession, in 1991 she developed a pre-html Hypertext information system and in 1999 led a team in Namibia designing web based training for environmental information specialists in Southern Africa. She has facilitated content training across Africa and as far afield as Palestine. She was a founder of MALICO, the Malawi Library and Information Consortium and also of MAREN, the Malawi Research and Education Network. She has participated within UbuntuNet Alliance in 5 EU FP7 e-infrastructure projects.