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Mike Jensen is an independent consultant with experience in over 33 countries in Africa assisting in the establishment of information and communications systems over the last 15 years. A South African, based in Port St Johns in the East Cape, he sent his first email 20 years ago while studying rural planning and development in Canada. He subsequently returned to South Africa to work as a journalist on the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and then moved back to Canada in 1985 where he co-founded the country's national Internet service for NGOs, called coincidentally, The Web.Mr. Jensen is a trustee of the African IT Education Trust, was part of the support team on the African Connection Rally last year and was a member of the African Conference of Ministers High Level Working Group which developed the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) in 1996. |
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A Programme Officer for Africa of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pierre Dandjinou also provides a technical assistance to the Internet Initiative for Africa, another IT Programme of the Africa Bureau of UNDP. In parallele to his professional occupations, Mr Dandjinou is involved in many Internet professional Initiatives on both regional and national levels. He was appointed a Coordinator for the Africa Internet Group (AIG) in 1998, and in this regard, organized the first Africa Regional Conference on the Internet Governance in Cotonou, Benin in December 1998. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Afrinic, the African Internet regional Registry in formation, and is President for the ISOC Chapter of the Republic of Benin. Pierre was recently appointed Chair of the Special Task Force on Africa of the At Large Membership Council of ICANN. Pierre Dandjinou graduated in Computer and Information Systems from the University of Sorbonne and the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. |
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Magda Ismail currently works as Director, IT Programs at the recently formed Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Ismail previously was Assistant Manager at the Information Highway Unit, of the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center. She played a key role in developing Egypt's Initiative for Electronic Commerce and in catalyzing the use of electronic commerce in Egypt. Ismail is currently Chair of the E-commerce Committee of the Internet Society of Egypt and the Electronic Commerce Working Group of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission in Africa. Ismail has presented in numerous international conferences and has many publications on the subject of e-commerce in Africa and the Middle East. A graduate of computer science, Ismail has a masters degree with distinction, in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems, from the London School of Economics. |
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Michael Minges has been head of the Telecommunications Data and Statistics Unit in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) since 1992. Prior to coming to the ITU, Mr. Minges worked at the International Monetary Fund for ten years where he held a variety of positions in information technology and statistics. Mr. Minges has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from George Washington University (United States).Mr. Minges is responsible for analyzing world-wide developments in the telecommunication industry. He has written numerous articles on telecommunications progress in emerging countries and is the co-author of several books including African Telecommunication Indicators and the World Telecommunication Development Report. |
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Nii Quaynor received a B.A in engineering science from Dartmouth College in 1972 and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Thayer School of Engineering in 1973. He did graduate study at the State University of New York at StonyBrook where he obtained M.S and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science in 1974 and 1977 respectively. During the 14 years at Digital he was credited with formal characterization of large systems and performance design methodologies. Nii left Digital in 1991 as a Senior Engineering Manager and returned to Ghana in a technology transfer experiment which transformed him into a high-technology entrepreneur. After working as a UNDP consultant to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Nii established Network Computer Systems to provide technology solutions. NCS provides a range of services from equipment support to software for export and to building networks. NCS distinguished itself in building large private corporate networks. This expertise enabled NCS to also establish the first public networks for SWIFT, EDI and Internet in West Africa. Nii further took upon himself to assist several African countries strengthen their Internetworks. Notable among them were Togo, Gambia, Nigeria, Liberia, Swaziland and Ethiopia. His concern that the associated human networks ought to be maintained, led to a drive to mobilize Africans to build the relevant supporting Institutions of the Internet in the Region. He is the Chairman of AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for Africa. Nii taught for the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy, China, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Mexico. He also established the Computer Science Department at the University of Cape-Coast in Ghana. Nii is currently, the Executive Chairman of NCS, President of the Internet Society of Ghana, member of the Council of the University of Ghana, member of the Ghana Frequency Registration and Control Board, and a member of the Board of the Ghana News Agency. |
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Bakary
K Njie is presently the Managing Director of Gambia
Telecommunications Company Ltd. (GAMTEL), which was established in 1984.
He graduated from the Norwood College of Technology in England in 1968
as Technician Engineer and has since attained numerous professional
qualifications in telecommunications, sector operation and management.
His career in telecommunications started in 1972 as Training Officer at The Gambia Telecommunications Training Centre. Between 1975 and 1980 he was Chief Engineer responsible for the overall planning, operations and maintenance of the national telecommunications system for The Gambia. As Managing Director he spearheaded the three phase development programmes of Gamtel between 1985/86 and 1992/93, and the much acclaimed current position of efficiency of service and proper management of telecommunications in The Gambia is attributed to his personal leadership qualities. Mr. Njie was the Chairman of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), from September 1997 to September 1999. |
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Muriuki Mureithi is a Director and founder of Summit Strategies based in Nairobi, Kenya. The mission of Summit Strategies is to help the local and international investor community to identify and concretise investment opportunities in the telecommunication sector through focused consultancy in Eastern and Southern African region telecommunication markets. Present assignment includes an invitation by Kenya government to moderate a broad-based process to evolve a new policy framework for info-communication in Kenya. Mr. Mureithi is the co-ordinator of National task Force on E-commerce. Mr. Mureithi has traveled to over 20 countries in Africa in telecommunications consultancy related assignments. Previously Mr. Mureithi worked at Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation. |
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Tim Kelly is Co-ordinator of the activities of the Strategies and Policy Unit of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where he has worked since 1993. Before joining ITU he spent five years as a Communications Policy Analyst with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and three years with Logica Consultancy Ltd. He has an MA (Hons) degree in Geography and a Ph.D in industrial economics from Cambridge University. Over the last eighteen years, Dr Kelly has specialised in the economics of the telecommunications industry. He has written or co-authored more than 20 books on the subject including the ITU's World Telecommunication Development Report: Mobile Cellular, Direction of Traffic: Trading Telecom Minutes (1999) and Challenges to the Network: Internet for development, all published for Telecom ’99. |
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Emson Moyo, a Zimbabwean national, was employed by the Zimbabwe Posts and Telecommunications Corporation as a Student Engineer and then as a Transmission Systems Engineer and eventually rising to become Section Manager Corporate Planning in charge of Demand Forecasting. In 1996 he joined SITA/EQUANT as the Regional Technical Manager for Southern Africa. In 1999 he joined Cisco Systems as a Systems Engineer for Sub-Saharan Africa.He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science in Communication Engineering and a Master of Business Administration all from the University of Zimbabwe. |
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Manuel Zaragoza is presently Coordinator of the GTU/GTTI project (Global Telecommunication University / Global Telecommunication Training Institute) in the División HRD (Human Resources Development) of the ITU/BDT. For many years, he has been working as Project Coordinator and Senior Expert in ITU/BDT international projects, at regional and national level, in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He was involved in the development of management information systems for telecommunications as well as in the implementation of other tools like internet/intranets and their applications. Before joining the ITU in his present post, Mr. Zaragoza worked for the Spanish Administration where he was also involved in management information systems as well as in telecommunication standardization (GII and future networks). Before that, he worked several years with Siemens. Mr. Zaragoza has degrees of Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicación and of Licenciado en Informática, both from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has published technical articles in many professional magazines and has collaborated in the preparation of some ITU publications. |
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Guy Girardet has worked for the International Telecommunication Union for the past 15 years first as an Analyst/Programmer within the Information Services Department and more recently in the ITU's Development Bureau (BDT). From 1999 Mr. Girardet acted as Programme Manager for Universal Access/Rural Development aand was recently appointed as coordinator for Internet activities within the BDT. Mr. Girardet is a founding Member of the Geneva Chapter of the Internet Society, and has been an active Internet evangelist within the ITU since 1994. In this respect he has co-organized a number of Internet related events and projects. These include the Geneva Internet Days in March 1995, the Internet@Telecom 95 Summit at Telecom 95, Telecom Interactive, 1997 and the ITU's Internet Broadcasting Service (IBS). |
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Ant Brooks has a background in Electrical Engineering, but has been involved in Internet development in South Africa since 1994. He runs a small strategy and management company called the Future Foundation. Through this company Ant Brooks acts at strategist for the Internet Service Providers' Association and the Digital Interactive Media Association in South Africa .He also sits on the Executive Committee of the Electronic Commerce Association of South Africa (ECASA) and prepared an extensive submission to government on e-commerce issues on behalf of ECASA. Ant Brooks is actively involved in national, regional and international Internet governance. From time-to-time he represents the “.za” top-level domain at meetings of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Recently, Ant was asked to serve as the observer for the African regional IP address registry (AfriNIC) on ICANN's Address Council. Ant speaks regularly on Internet governance and strategy issues, as well as a range of transhuman interests, such as life-extension and the future of the human-machine interface. When he is not working, Ant performs music-responsive light-shows and takes an active interest in anything involving bright colours. |
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Paul Nalikka started his career as an engineer with Uganda Posts and Telecommunication Corporation. He then moved to INTELSAT where he worked in operations and capacity planning. He returned to Uganda in 1995 as Coordinator of Telecom Restructuring and Privatisation and led the effort to successfully reinvent the sector and transfer it to private ownership. Nalikka is presently Regional Director—Sales, Africa Region for INTELSAT. He was educated at Makerere University in Kampala and has an M.Sc in Information Management from George Washington University in Washington DC. His professional interests include Telecom Deregulation and Privatisation in Africa, Telecom Growth and Consumption in Africa and Rural Telephony- Satellite Based Solutions. |
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Yaw Osei Amoako is the Regional Director – Africa for ITXC Corporation. Prior to that he was Director of Carrier Services (West Africa) and Marketing Manager (Africa) for AT&T. He has also been an assistant professor at several universities. Dr. Osei Amoako holds PhD and MSc degrees in Operations Research & Statistics from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and an MBA in Corporate Finance & Investments from Adelphi University, Long Island, New York. |
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Terrefe Ras-Work
graduated as an engineer from Renselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy.
N.Y.) He also obtained an Advance Telecom Management Diploma from USC in
Los Angeles.
He started his professional career with the Imperial Board of Telecommunications of Ethiopia and then joined the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. At the ITU he served as Head of the Africa Desk for Technical Co-operation, then as Special Policy Adviser to the Secretary General of the ITU and finally as Director of External Affairs. While at the ITU among his many assignments he was appointed Project Manager of the McKinsey & Company team that carried out the Feasibility study for WorldTel. He joined WorldTel at its inception as Secretary of the Board and is currently Executive Director for Business Development heading also the Geneva office. |
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Mactar SECK
est un chercheur de haut niveau ce qui lui a valu d'avoir été
désigné en 1996 Lauréat du Grand Prix du Président de la République
du Sénégal pour les Sciences Editions 1996 grâce à un système de
transmission de voix, données et images sur un canal à bas débit
qu'il a mis au point. Ses travaux de recherche au sein de TDF -C2R (TéléDiffusion
de France) Groupe France Télécom ont été couronné par un brevet
Européen sur les systèmes de compression d'images à son actif.
Mr SECK a été nommé par le Président de la République du Sénégal depuis Décembre 1998 Secrétaire Exécutif du Conseil Supérieur de l'Industrie du Sénégal . Le Conseil Supérieur de l'Industrie, présidé par le Président de la République du Sénégal, est une plate-forme de concertation entre l'Etat et le Secteur privé chargé d'élaborer la Vision Industrielle Sénégal 2020. Il a pour mission majeure d'appuyer ces deux acteurs dans la réalisation d'une vision industrielle à long terme, en les accompagnant dans l'élaboration des stratégies et des plans d'actions nécessaires à la concrétisation de cette vision et en évaluant leur mise en œuvre. Mr SECK a successivement occupé les postes suivants :
Mr SECK est le rapporteur principal à l'UIT -D ( Union International de Télécommunications Secteur du Développement) de la Question 9 : Impact de Nouvelles technologies de l'Information dans l'environnement réglementaire des pays en développement et co-rapporteur de question 14/2 sur la Télémedecine.. Il est aussi Membre du Comité Directeur ADF ( African Development Forum) de la Commission Economique pour l'Afrique (CEA) |
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Carlo Maria Rossotto is Regulatory Economist for the Telecommunications and Informatics Division (EMTTI). He has performed economic and regulatory analysis and provided advise in several telecommunications-related areas, such as sector regulatory reform and privatization, fiscal impact of sector reforms, sector financial and organisational restructuring. He has worked in Eastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Russia and Ukraine), North Africa and Middle East (Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey), and Africa (Malawi and Tanzania). Before joining the Bank, he has extensively consulted private corporations on demand and services analysis and forecasting, marketing, corporate strategy and regulatory affairs, maturing experience in the European markets. During his work as Associate Economic Consultant the Institute for Media and Telecommunications Economics, he has advised corporations like British Telecom, ENI, Ericcson, Nokia, Mediaset, Nielsen, Omnitel, SGS-Thompson, Telecom Italia and Telecom Itali a Mobile. He has matured relevant experience with international institutions, acting as Administrative Task Manager and Economic Researcher for several research projects, funded by the European Union (expecially by DGIII, DGXII and DGXIII), in the areas of Industrial and Science and Technology Policy, and working at the improvement of management and information systems for the Cofinancing Unit of the Inter-American Development Bank. He represented Italy in the COST-A3 Action of the European Union. He holds post-graduate degrees in Economics and Business Administration from "Bocconi University", Milan, in Financial and Commercial Regulation from "The London School of Economics", London. |
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Ernest Akpoue
professional experience:
Formation: Graduate of Abidjan Business School, in Côte d'Ivoire and of Brighton Polytechnic, in the United Kingdom. |
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Gaston Zongo,
is a citizen from Burkina Faso (West Africa) and is a telecommunications
engineer, graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications de Paris (1976). He also holds a Masters in mathematics and a post graduate in Research and Development Economics, of Paris I University. He has been a managing Director of the Telecommunications Operator of Burkina Faso for 15 years, and simultaneously professor of mathematics and applied statistics at the university of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) . He has been the Executive director of the African Telecommunication Observatory for two years before being appointed Executive Director of the IDRC/ Acacia initiative (Communities and information society in Africa) (July 1998) Gaston's main research interest is focused on policies and strategies to reach universal access and rural connectivity and in particular the community access. He is leading the Acacia programme out of the regional office of IDRC in Dakar (Senegal). For further information on Acacia , see http://www.idrc.ca/acacia |
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Name : Fred Joram
Sekyana Nationality: Ugandan Age : 25 years Education: Working Experience: |
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Name: Faye Makane Date of Birth: 1 April 1954 Nationality: Senegalese EDUCATION SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
WORK EXPERIENCE
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Graham Matthews
joined MSI Cellular Investments BV of the Netherlands as Director, ISP
Services in March 2000. MSI-CI is holding company for ten GSM operators
and licence holders across Africa. Co-founder and managing director of
Swaziland's first ISP established in 1995, Graham sold his interest in
what then became Africa Online Swaziland in 1999 and moved to Africa
Online's corporate headquarters in Nairobi as Corporate Head, Internet
Business Solutions.
Graham holds an MSc in Economics from London University and worked previously as a university lecturer and as Deputy Africa Editor with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in London. His most recent speaking engagements were two presentations made at the World Economic Forum for Southern Africa, in Durban South Africa in June 1999. |
