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Gitanjali Sah

Gitanjali Sah


Gitanjali Sah is a Coordinator, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and an expert on ICT for Sustainable Development matters. She has more than 15 years of work experience in ICT policy issues at the national, regional and international level and is an experienced International Civil Servant having worked at several UN  Agencies.
Gitanjali has been providing strategic advise and is coordinating actions on the alignment of the  WSIS Process and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She has been working and coordinating with multiple stakeholders to ensure that ICTs play an enabling role in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Gitanjali also strategized and designed the WSIS-SDG Matrix with UN Agencies, which is a key reference document for linkages of WSIS Action lines with SDGs.
Working towards making a difference in the lives of people has always been her passion. As a young person, she started working in the urban slums of Delhi to explore the impacts of ICTs on women and the youth. She successfully set up Knowledge and Information Centers in the slum areas of Delhi and conducted research in Urban Slums to analyse the economic and social impact of ICT4D.
She holds M.Phil. Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK and a Masters in Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. ​​