Public Interest Registry — the not-for-profit manager of .org, .ngo and .ong — today
announced the appointment of Dorcas Muthoni to the board of directors of nonprofit domain registrar Enset,
a subsidiary organization. Muthoni, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame and CEO and founder of OPENWORLD LTD, will begin a two-year term as director this month.
Muthoni is an accomplished entrepreneur and computer scientist whose leadership and
technology advocacy has been recognized by groups including the Anita Borg Institute for Women, Women's Forum and the World Economic Forum. In addition to serving as an Internet Society Fellow to the Internet Engineering Task Force and World Bank infoDev Global
Forum, Muthoni is the founder of AfChix, a mentorship and capacity building initiative for women in computing across Africa.