ITU's 160 anniversary

Connecting the world and beyond

DAFALLA Abu Sufian

Qualification: BSc. from the University of Khartoum in Electrical Engineering in 1982. Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Khartoum in 1992 in Electrical Engineering. His thesis is in the digital satellite communications. He spent a couple of months in University of London as researcher.

Experience:

He joined Sudan Telecom Public Corporations and after Privatisation Sudan Telecom Company (Sudatel) in 1994 as Director of Technical Planning. He joined COMESA in 1997. He was ICT sector Manager from June 2002 to Jan 2012. Currently he is the Director of Infrastructure from Jan 2012 up to now.

He prepares projects proposal for funding and participates in the negotiation with the donors. He is responsible from the implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the ICT activities and project in COMESA. He is the Secretary of the infrastructure Ministers Meeting and workshops.

He attended many international and regional information and communication technology conferences and seminars as well as some courses in the same field.

He published many papers in the field of ICT in international journals.