Prof.

Olunifesi

Suraj

Nigeria

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University of Lagos

Dr. Olunifesi Adekunle SURAJ is a New/Digital/Social Media Strategic Thought Leader, Digital Media and Information Literacy Consultant and a Knowledge/Intellectual Capital Management Expert who has been at the vanguard of promoting Internet Neutrality and cyber safety for the past 15 years. Dr. SURAJ�s research focus is on the dynamism of knowledge/free/open/digital society as advanced by the new and social media and how its contemporary issues of freedom of expression and its inherent vices of radicalization and extremism can be simultaneously promoted and curtailed respectively using Media and Information Literacy (MIL) as an intercultural dialogue and behavioural change tools. Dr. Olunifesi is the present National Coordinator and Global co-lead of the UNESCO-initiated Universities Network on Media and Information Literacy (MILID), a key member of UNESCO Media & Information Literacy Alliance and member of UN/UNESCO Global Experts in Addressing Hate speech through Education. He is the Executive Director of African Centre for Media and Intercultural Dialogue. He serves as a Resource Consultant to many international bodies including UNESCO on Internet Radicalization, Digital Media & Information Literacy and has done extensive work in the areas of ICT and Telecommunication policies emphasizing on Broadband infrastructural investment policies as a driver of national development, equitable digital access and citizens economic empowerment in achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goal. Dr. Olunifesi holds a Bachelor (B.Sc) Degree in Microbiology, Master (M.Info.Sc) and Doctorate (PhD) Degrees in Information Science from University of Ibadan and a Postgraduate (PGD) Degree in Mass Communication from University of Lagos. Dr. Olunifesi Adekunle SURAJ is a Professor at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Nigeria with lots of published articles and books to his credit.

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