Anriette Esterhuysen (South Africa) is the Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications, an international networked organisation (established in 1990) that focuses on the use of  information and communication technologies by civil society for social  justice and development.  She was Executive Director of SANGONeT, an  internet service provider and ICT training institution for the  development sector in South Africa from 1993 to 2000.

Prior to that  she worked in development and in human rights organisations involved  in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. She is a founder of  Women'sNet, a national women's network in South Africa and has served  on the African Technical Advisory Committee of the UN's Economic  Commission for Africa's African Information Society Initiative and on the United Nations ICT Task Force from 2002-5. She serves  on the governing bodies of Isis Women's International Cross Cultural  Exchange in Uganda, the Global e-Schools & Communities Initiative (GeSCI), and  Ungana Afrika, a South African e-rider network.