Honorary Committee |
European Commission and African Union Commission officials / International, regional, and local authorities
- Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid – Director, ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, Switzerland
- Mohamed Ben Amor – Director General, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche des Télécommunications (CERT), Tunisia
- Mario Campolargo – Director, Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures (DG INFSO), European Commission
- Khaled Fourati – Senior Program Officer ICT4D Acacia Program, International Development Research Centre, South Africa
- Ilari Lindy – Adviser, Information Society for Development, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland
- Eric Mwangi – Directorate of Research Development, Ministry of Higher Education, Science & Technology, Kenya
- Juma Shabani – Director, UNESCO Bamako Cluster Office, Mali
- Afzal Sher – The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden
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Advisory & Programme Committee |
e-Infrastructures experts (members of this Committee were in charge of the Conference programme)
- Esam M. Abulkhirat – Senior ICT Policy Officer, Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology (HRST), African Union Commission (AUC), Ethiopia
- Francesco Affinito – S&T Coordinator, Economic Development Unit, DG Development (DG DEV) & Relations with ACP States, European Commission (EC)
- Mbangwana Moses Atezah – Research Program Manager, Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWCA), Mali
- Boubakar Barry – Coordinator, Research and Education Networking Unit, Association of African Universities (AAU), Networking Unit
- Sandro Bazzanella – Project Manager, ITU-EC, Switzerland
- Emamgholi Behdad – Chief, Projects and Initiatives Department, ITU, Switzerland
- Stephen Benians – Coordinator, BELIEF-II Project, Italy
- Fadila Boughanemi – Policy Officer in charge of S&T Cooperation with ACP Countries (DG Research), European Commission (EC)
- Andrew Cherry – Science & Technology Advisor, The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the Africa Unit (CAAST-Net Coordinator & EuroAfrica-ICT Partner), UK
- Alessandro Damiani – Head of Unit D.1 (International dimension of the Framework programme), Directorate D (International Cooperation), DG Research, European Commission (EC)
- Dai Davies – General Manager, Dante (GEANT), UK
- Harry de Backer – Policy Officer, EU delegation to the African Union in Ethiopia (DG RELEX), European Commission (EC)
- Thierry Devars – Policy Officer, International Relations Unit (DG INFSO), European Commission
- Leonardo Flores – Scientific Officer, GEANT & e-Infrastructures (DG INFSO), European Commission
- Gerti Foest – Project Manager, DFN, Germany
- Konstantinos Glinos – Head of Unit, GEANT & e-Infrastructures (DG INFSO), European Commission
- Mohamed Hassan – Executive Director of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
- Pascal Andoh Hoba – Head, Communications & Services Coordinator, Association of African Universities (AAU), Kenya
- John F. Kakule – Expert in charge of Education, Science and Technology, Information Society, Health and Employment, ACP Secretariat, Brussels
- Victor Kyalo – Deputy CEO, TCIP Program Manager, Kenya ICT Board (and TEAMS Coordinator), Kenya
- Leif Laaksonen – Chairman, e-IRG (e-Infrastructure Reflexion Group) (CSC), Finland
- Jérôme Lebouc – Programme Manager, EuropeAid Cooperation Office, Centralised Operations for ACP Countries, DG AIDCO, European Commission (EC)
- Christine Leurquin – Vice-Chairperson, the Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI) ETP, Belgium
- Iman Maaly – CEO of SUIN and Board Member of the UbuntuNet Alliance, Sudan
- Moustapha Mamy Diaby – Senior Telecommunications Development Policy Officer, Department for Infrastructure & Energy, African Union Commission (AUC)
- Eduardo Sorribes Manzana – Policy Adviser, Economic Development, Infrastructure & Communication Networks, Trade & Regional Integration (DG DEV), European Commission
- Ousmane Moussa Tessa – West and Central African Research Education Network (WACREN) Task Force, Niger
- Margaret E Ngwira – Director, UbuntuNet Alliance, Malawi
- Nnenna Nwakanma – Director of NNENNA.org and Chair of FOSSFA Council
- Omo Oaiya – Datasphir Solutions Limited, Nigeria
- Eric M.K. Osiakwan – Director, Internet Research, GISPA, Ghana
- Jean-Louis Parmentier – COO, SEACOM, Mauritius
- Björn Pehrson – Professor, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) (Coordinator, FEAST Project), Sweden
- Antti Peltomaki – Deputy Director General (DG INFSO), European Commission
- Nii Narku Quaynor – Executive Director, The African Network Operators Group (AFNOG), Ghana
- Cathrin Stover – International Relations Manager, Dante (GEANT), UK
- Simon Taylor – Researcher, Brunel University (Coordinator, ERINA4Africa Project), UK
- Hannes Toivanen – Senior Research Scientist, VTT Organisations, Networks and Innovation Systems, Finland
- Francis F. Tusubira – CEO, the UbuntuNet Alliance, Uganda
- Moctar Yedaly – Head of Telecommunications & Post, Department for Infrastructure & Energy, African Union Commission (AUC)
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Organising Committee |
The European Commission, the African Union Commission, the eI-Africa and the ERINA4Africa projects
- Esam M. Abulkhirat – Senior ICT Policy Officer, Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology (HRST), African Union Commission (AUC), Ethiopia
- Thierry Devars – Policy Officer, International Relations Unit (DG INFSO), European Commission
- Leonardo Flores – Scientific Officer, GEANT & e-Infrastructures (DG INFSO), European Commission
- Moustapha Mamy Diaby – Senior Telecommunications Development Policy Officer, Department for Infrastructure & Energy, African Union Commission (AUC)
- Peter McGrath – Acting Programme Officer, TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (EuroAfrica-ICT Partner), Italy
- Simon Taylor – Reader in Computing, Brunel University (ERINA4Africa project partner), United Kingdom
- Hannes Toivanen – Senior Research Scientist, VTT Organisations, Networks and Innovation Systems, Finland
- Karine Valin – Managing Director of Sigma Orionis and Coordinator of the eI-Africa and EuroAfrica-ICT initiatives, France
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