Agenda

Pierre Dandjinou is currently Vice President, global stakeholder engagement at ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and numbers, headquartered in Los Angeles, California.. Pierre coordinates ICANN's engagement with African stakeholders and oversees the implementation of ICANN's African strategy. This strategy largely supports African participation to policy development at ICANN, capacity building on DNS technology, management and security, and promotion of the DNS industry in Africa.

Before joining ICANN, Pierre was Executive Director of the multidisciplinary firm ‘Strategy Consulting Group’ based in Cotonou (Benin) and in Dakar (Senegal); this followed his 12 years tenure as a Senior Regional Adviser, ICTs for Development and e-Governance, at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). In this context, he assisted UNDP offices in sub-Saharan

Africa in various aspects, including the analysis, design and management of information systems and strategies; Consulting support in ICT policies and strategies for development, electronic governance (e-Governance) and the Modernization of public administration; as well as project evaluation and knowledge management.

Before joining the UNDP in 1997, Pierre was Director of the consulting firm ‘Infocom Services’ and carried out several expert missions for many institutions including FAO, CTA, ILCA, la Francophonie and UNESCO. Pierre has contributed to several initiatives relating to the development of the internet in Africa; he is a founding member of several institutions and
professional associations, including ISOC, ICANN, and AFRINIC, of ​​which he served as chair of the Board. Pierre graduated as an engineer, information systems from the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and from the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Paris. He has also attended numerous specialized training courses on the digital economy, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency.

Nodumo is passionate about developing and implementing IT / ICT Business Strategies that harness the opportunities for the end users. She has 28 years of experience in aligning IT / ICT Strategies to the needs of higher educational institutions, agricultural communities, and the private sector. She also enjoys mentoring young girls and women to become proficient users of the emerging IT / ICT tools. She understands user needs assessment, process re-engineering and solution modelling. She has worked in secondary school education, banking, railway transport, higher education and tertiary agricultural education.  Through her work she has a good knowledge of all the 5 regions of Africa. She has lived and worked in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, and West Africa.  

She has experience in strategic leadership, management, and administration. She has designed and implemented management information systems, supervised, and mentored technical and non-technical teams, worked with consultants, and monitored the implementation of research projects and other projects related to innovations in education and agriculture. She has coordinated several regional projects; and managed partnerships with regional economic community bodies such as COMESA, SADC and ECA.  She is currently the Director of ICT Services, Communications and Knowledge Management at the Association of African Universities - where she runs continental capacity building programs for National Research and Education Infrastructure, E-learning Development, Innovations in Teaching, Research Communication, Developing Digital Systems, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning. 

She is also the former ICT Director at Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe and former ICT Program Manager at RUFORUM, Uganda. She led the digitization projects at Africa University, Zimbabwe from 1999 to 2008. She was also part of the team that designed the implementation of the Pan African Virt

Jean Baptiste Millogo focuses on the Sustainable Peering Infrastructure, Community Networks and Technical community development, especially in the African region.

Prior to this position at the Internet Society, he served as a network architect at Orange Burkina Faso and stood as an Orange Expert, Future Network on behalf of Orange Group. In this professional journey, he has significantly contributed to the company's core and IP backbone network transformation and played a key role in all IP/MPLS projects.

He has worked for a decade as a regional information technology and network manager for Central Africa and the Great Lakes region at Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). He has also spent time building digital campuses and ICT infrastructures for African Universities based on Free and Open Source Software.

In the domain of the Internet community, he is one of the founding members of the Internet Society Burkina Faso Chapter and chaired its board from 2015 to 2020. To support the peering and interconnection community in Burkina Faso, he has been the executive director at the Burkina Faso Internet Exchange Point (BFIX) since February 2018 and served as an Africa Peering and Interconnection Program committee member.

He holds an MSc in computer science with a major in network design and security from the University of Reims in France.

Computing and technologies enthusiast, Adeola Alain Patrick AINA is a network engineer with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. 
He embarked on entrepreneurship in 1999 by creating one of the first IT Service and Engineering companies in the Togolese Republic. “Technologies Réseaux & Solutions” (TRS) offers services and solutions for network architectures, information systems security, capacity building, etc.

Under his leadership, TRS has supported and continues to support many companies and initiatives on the continent in the adoption of new technologies.

With the success of TRS and to serve better, he launched the company "Digital Intelligence Services", which specializes in supporting digital transformations. An evolution of the range of services and solutions offered by TRS.

He has devoted a large part of his life to traveling over the world to contribute to the Internet accessibility and adoption of new technologies around the world. As Chief Technology Officer, he contributed to the establishment of the first regional education and research network for West and Central Africa. He served the African Internet Registry (AFRINIC) for 11 years in various roles, including the post of Acting Director General. Retired AFNOG instructor, he now serves as AFNOG co-convener.

He also served on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of ICANN for many years.    
He was a member of the ICANN Security and Stability Review Team (SSR2).  
Trusted community representative, he served as “Crypto Officer” for the DNSSEC at the DNS root.
He was a member of the Internet Society Board of Trustees.

His dedications  has  earned him the “Nii AWARD 2012'' and the prestigious“ Jonathan B. Postel Award in 2019 ”, as well as numerous recognitions from the international technical community.

More information on M. AINA:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-aina-1060266/__;!!PtGJab4!5vBjHniOMHv24woUUiNHPSstZj90MiJEcNHmxv8fsopk4GoIDCgJYldu6Mtu68LPN4pTf4LtSNsq1mWHinrl2Ys$[linkedin[.]com]

Mark was born and educated in the UK. He attended Queen Mary College (London University) from 1979 to 1983. From that very first day at university – Mark has been working on Unix based computer systems. He moved to South Africa in 1984. 

After twelve years at Olivetti Systems and Networks, he started his own company (Posix Systems – an Internet Service Provider) and has been involved in Computer Communications since 1986. 

With an emphasis on DNS things... 

He acquired the administered of the “CO.ZA” Domain name administration system on behalf of UniForum S.A. from 1995. He then automated it – the majority of this code still runs today, though now as the Legacy system. Today, the CO.ZA Domain has well over a million Domain Names and is by far the largest Domain in Africa. 

Achievements include 

CCIE (Cisco Engineer) No.1992, 6 June 1996 
Running IPv6 at Posix Systems since January 2007 
DNSSEC at Posix Systems since 2010 
Manages the EDU.ZA SLD – which is DNSSEC (with a CDS Collector) and IDN enabled. 
Board member of AFRINIC (for 6 years) 
ICANN DNSSEC & Security Program Committee Member for Africa 
ICANN UA Ambassador (Universal Acceptance) 
Part of the ICANN “DNS Study for Africa (2016)” working group. 

By being involved with the ZACR (South African Central Registry), Mark provides DNS (and DNSSEC) training to ISPs in South and Southern Africa, courses which are usually every six month for the past ten years until about five years ago when the courses were stopped. These courses once again resumed early in 2022.