Full Name:        Alex Corenthin
Organisation:    NIC Senegal - University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Country:           Senegal
Runing for:        Western Africa  

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Nominated by (full Name): NDEYE MAIMOUNA DIOP DIAGNE
Nominee (Full Name): ALEX CORENTHIN
Organization (or affiliation):  NIC Senegal - University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (SENEGAL)
Position: Professor, administrative contact .sn
Describe your Role: Administration of ccTLD .sn
Physical address: BP 11542 Dakar-Peytavin (Senegal)
Country and sub-region nominated for: SN (West Africa)

Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words):

Founder member of ISOC Senegalese Chapter, and administrative contact of ccTLD .sn, act as an activist in the solutions and the awareness on internet issues in the sub-region. Participant of all major fora in internet development issues in africa, i'm very interested in the deployement of IpV6 technologies and platforms in the continent to contribute in finding best practices approach to rach somme critical issues on internet governance and improve the access and contribute to the technical skills of the technicians.

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Full Name:       Daniel Yakmut Inusa
Organisation:    University of Jos
Country:           Nigeria
Runing for:        Western Africa

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Nominated by (full Name): Jonathan Gondyi Coordinator University of Jos Network
Nominee (Full Name): Daniel Yakmut Inusa
Organization (or affiliation):University of Jos Network
Position:
Describe your Role:senior system Programmer
Physical address: University of Jos Network, Regional Cisco academy
Country and sub-region nominated for:western Africa

Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words):

Mr Yakmut started his career after graduation as an Assistant Lecturer (Computer Science) at a Polytechnic, later move to the University of Jos, as System Programmer. He later became Head of training at the University Computer Centre. After this he was made responsible for the University e-mail services. In this responsibility he charted the development of the University Network and Internet infrastructure and content. He headed the Network department from 2000 – 2005, until he departed for graduate studies in South Africa. He has been actively involved in human capital development in the area of ICT especially in Network and Internet Technologies at local and national level. He setup the first Cisco Regional Networking Academy in a Nigerian University in 2002, which he coordinated until 2005. He has just returned from graduate studies and strongly involved in policy and management of ICT at the university. He has participated in AfNOG workshops and meeting for the past four years. The result of his participations at AfNOG has led to his involvement in organising NgNOG (Nigerian Network Operators
Group) in 2006, which was hosted by the University of Jos. He participated as facilitator/instructor. He is also involved with AfriNIC, his university is a registered member, and he was responsible for registering the University and has attended two of AfriNIC meetings.
He has also attended two ICANN meetings (November, 2001-Marina del Rey, USA and April, 2002- Accra, Ghana) as a member of the Non Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency, as at then. During the meetings He was also engage in the formation of the At-Large group and also in the discussion for the formation of AfriICANN group. He also attended ccTLD meeting and training during ICANN meeting in Ghana in 2002. He is a member of ISOC International for over three years now. Nationally, he has contributed substantially to the development of network and Internet infrastructure in some Nigerian universities as a technical consultant.
He has attended several meetings for he running of the .ng domain and he is actively involved in the promoting the use of .ng by different organisations within Nigeria. It is based on the above that I feel Mr.
Yakmut can contribute to the growth and development of AfriNIC when he becomes a member of the board. I will therefore strongly recommend and nominate him to the board of AfriNIC.

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Full Name:       Dr Yassin Mshana
Organisation:   ICANN At Large Community
Country:           
Runing for:        Western Africa

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Nominated by (full Name): Dr Yassin Mshana
Nominee (Full Name): Dr Yassin Mshana
Organization (or affiliation) : ICANN At Large Community (ex-ccNSO Councillor - Africa Region), eThinkTankTz & SWOPNet
Position: Member
Describe your Role: Development of the global Internet Policies and contributor in various National  ICT Policies (on voluntary basis). Currently providing consultancy services to international organisations in Institutional and Organisational Development and the management of the introduction of ICT applications.
Physical address:  No. 10 Bobo Street, Maitama District, Abuja, NIGERIA
Country and sub-region nominated for: West  Africa

Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words):

1: Experience in global and national ICT policy development and advocacy issues; this was acquired though my work as a ccNSO Councillor at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the e-ThinkTankTz which is a network of professionals engaged in ICT policy development. This has also been through my interactions with activists in various ICT development networks.

2:  Excellent people and project management skills through my engagements at senior management level which involved the development of working relationships with governments, international and local partners to achieve common objectives. Most of this was acquired through my engagement as a Training Co-ordinator of the Global Development Network (GDLN) by World Bank Institute and during my tenure as a site Manager of the African Virtual University project (AVU) which joined 12 sites in African with those located in other continents.   

3: Organisational Capacity Development i.e. development of policy, strategic planning, annual operation/business plans and administrative procedures. This is my current focus as a consultant, and my most recent engagement in this area was with the West Africa Telecommunication Regulators Assembly (WATRA) where I provided services to the Executive Officer/Secretary.

  4: I have acquired the knowledge and skills required in the development of management structures and systems, such as Performance and Appraisal Systems in the public sector; Institutional Transformation activities, including research, formulation of programme concepts and needs assessment have been part of my previous engagements in Africa.

5: My previous work with the AVU, ICANN and DGLN involved working online and face-to-face with colleagues in an international context whereby presentation skills using various computer applications and software were a necessity.

6: I  have the flexibility and capacity to work independently if selected to serve in the Board:  have equipped my private office with audio, video and data transmission facilities and have 24 hours access to the Internet through a reputable ISP. These facilities include office furniture, a 60GB Laptop, Webcam, digital camera, Scanner, Printer, Fax, Copier and 2 telephone lines.

7:  I live and work from Abuja, Nigeria,  as an Individual Consultant from where I have been pursuing the opportunities to provide my services to international organisations.

I hope my self nomination is in a good order and am ready to provide further information if required.

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Full Name:       Kamal Okba
Organisation:    Maroc Telecom
Country:           Morocco
Runing for:        Northern Africa  

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Nominee (Full Name): OKBA KAMAL     
Organization (or affiliation): Maroc Telecom
Position: Regional Director
Describe your Role: Managing all Maroc Telecom activities in the Moroccan South Region   
Physical address: Maroc Telecom Direction Regionale Hay Dakhla
e-mail address: k.okba@iam.ma
Phone number: +212 61 09 99 88
Fax number: +212 28 21 03 03
Country and sub-region nominated for: North Africa

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Full Name:        Mokhtar Hamidi
Organisation:   
Country:           Algeria
Runing for:        Northern Africa  

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Nominated by (full Name):   Viv Padayatchy 

Nominee (Full Name):   Mokhtar HAMIDI
Organization (or affiliation): Afrinic 
Position: Board Member 
Describe your Role: Board Member
Physical address:  Algeria 

Country and sub-region nominated for: Algeria, North Africa 

Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words):

Mokhtar has been serving on the board of Afrinic as an elected member from Northern Africa since the first election in Dakar, Senegal. His contribution has always been well appreciated both by his peers on the board and by members of the community. He has shown a lot of dedication to the cause of Afrinic and has helped to resolve some difficult situations that the organisation had to face during its first few years. It is with pleasure that i nominate him for another mandate to serve on the board of Afrinic.

Full Name:       Pierre Dandjinou
Organisation:    UNDP
Country:           Senegal
Runing for:        Western Africa

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Nominated by (full Name): Viv Padayatchy
Nominee (Full Name): Pierre Dandjinou
Organization (or affiliation): UNDP
Position: Advisor
Describe your Role: Afrinic Board Member and Chairman Physical address: DAKAR SENEGAL
Country and sub-region nominated for: Benin, West Africa

Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words):

Pierre Dandjinou is a founding member of Afrinic. He was part of the transitional board and was elected as a member of the first elected board in Dakar, Senegal. He was also appointed Chairman of the board at that time. Since then, Pierre has been able to steer the organisation through the initial stages of its development and help to build a successful and stable organisation that Afrinic is today. I would like to nominate him so that he can continue the good work that he has already started.

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Full Name:        Rachida Jouhari
Organisation:   
Country:           Morocco
Runing for:        Northern Africa  

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Full Name:Rachida JOUHARI
Organization:Ministry of Telecom of Morocco
Position:Projects Manager
My role is : to organize and to manage resources in such a way that these resources deliver all the work required to complete the Governemental Projects within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints. It's also to optimize allocation and integration of inputs needed to meet pre-defined objectives.
Physical address: 11, rue Ghissassa Souissi Rabat Maroc
Country and sub-region nominated for: Northern Africa

background :
President of M@CSIS (Moroccan Association of Civile Society for Information Society), moroccan Representative in the GAC. I am engineer, I worked for France Telecom before returning to Morocc, I organized the first formation in ipv6 in Morocco for the participants of French-speaking Africa, I work on the greatest Moroccan project in tic (equipment of all moroccan school establishments in multi-media centre)

Motivation:
Promove AFRINIC in North Africa.
I will organize with redouane (MARWAN) AFNOG/AFRINIC
2008 in Rabat, the candidature is sent to the secretariat of AFNOG

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Full Name:       Sunday Folayan
Organisation:    General Data Engineering Services
Country:           Nigeria
Runing for:        Western Africa

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Nominated by (full Name): Pierre Ouedraogo & Nii Quaynor
Nominee (Full Name): Sunday A Folayan
Organization (or affiliation): General Data Engineering Services
Position: CEO
Describe your Role:
Physical address: 16 Oshin Road, Kongi Bodija Ibadan
Country and sub-region nominated for: West Africa

Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words):

As one of the pioneers that fought for the establishment of AfriNIC and worked to establish it on a firm footing, Sunday has demonstrated the capacity and willingness to to assist the African community consolidate its Regional Internet Registry. He is willing to serve an additional term on the Board.

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