Isaac Boateng

​Isaac Boateng is currently the Director for Standardization with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) – the specialised agency of the African Union (AU) responsible for Telecommunications/ICTs, based in Nairobi, Kenya with his professional working experience spanning over 23 years. At the ATU Secretariat, Mr. Boateng is responsible for coordinating and spearheading the development and execution of the sector-specific initiatives, projects, and programs, offering support to the fifty-two (52) Member States and over fifty-four (54) Associate Members, in their preparations for global and regional conferences, including contributing to standardization related programmes at the Africa Union (AU) as well as the African Telecommunications/ICTs Organizations. Prior to joining the ATU in January 2024, Mr Boateng was a Deputy Director in charge of technical regulations at the National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana. He was specifically responsible for regulations on emerging technologies as well as network quality of service monitoring, billing verification, traffic, revenue assurance and anti-fraud monitoring, licensing development, equipment authorisation, numbering management and a technical trainer. He has also served as an ITU standardization expert since 2008, assuming the roles of a Vice Chair Telecommunications Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG), Associate Rapporteur of TSAG, Vice Chair and Rapporteur for ITU-T SG11, Chair of ITU-T CASC and Chair of ITU-T SG11 Regional Group for Africa. He has edited several ITU-T Recommendations and Technical Papers. Mr Boateng has also contributed actively to several ITU Conferences including the Plenipotentiary Conference (PP), World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA), World Telecommunications Development Conference (WTDC), ITU Council meetings, TSAG and Study Groups.