# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-hafkin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:58:54.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-hafkin"
name: "Nancy Hafkin"
slug: "nancy-hafkin"
description: "Nancy Jane Hafkin is a pioneer of networking and development information and electronic communications in Africa, spurring the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from 1987 until 1997. She also played a role in facilitating the Association for Progressive Communications's work to enable email connectivity in more than 10 countries during the early 1990s, before full Internet connectivity became a reality in most of Africa."
tagline: "South African computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nancy_Hafkin_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.58
  momentum:             13.22641509433962
  historical:           12.47095066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "نانسي هافكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ნენსი ჰაფკინი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Hafkin"
    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Hafkin"
    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nancy Hafkin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump