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2026 WIC Global Youth Leaders: Malkia John builds tech-centered support for violence survivors
Malkia John has been selected as a 2026 World Internet Conference Global Youth Leader. She serves as executive director of Sauti Salama, a digital social welfare platform that supports survivors of gender-based violence. She possesses extensive professional experience in technology-enabled social development, digital security, and AI for social good.
She has been recognized as an ITU 160 Gender Champion and a World Summit Awards (WSA) Youth Ambassador. The Sauti Salama platform — which boasts a survivor-centric AI guidance and safety referral mechanism — received the 2025 WSA Young Innovators Award.
To date, her team has supported 368 survivors of gender-based violence, trained over 700 digital security professionals, and empowered more than 1,000 students — practicing African feminism and building community trust through technological empowerment.
The World Internet Conference (WIC) was established as an international organization on July 12, 2022, headquartered in Beijing, China. It was jointly initiated by Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA), National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT), China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Alibaba Group, Tencent, and Zhijiang Lab.
