Nnenna Nwakanma (Born 1975) is a Nigerian FOSS activist, community organizer, development adviser.

She worked for the United Nations for 15 years and she was the Interim Policy Director for the World Wide Web Foundation Nwakanma was born in 1975 in rural Abia State (south-eastern Nigeria).

[citation needed] Previously, she served as the Information Officer for Africa of the Helen Keller Foundation.

Nwakanma has spoken at conferences on Open Source and Free Software and other topics including O'Reilly's OSCON, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM),[6] Yale University's Access to Knowledge Conference,[7] the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT,[8] the Open World Forum,[9] and The Internet Governance Forum.

[12] Fluent in English, French and a handful of African languages, based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire,[when?]