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'''Pierre Dandjinou''' is the Director at [[INFOCOM Intelligence]], Chairman at [[AfriNIC]], E-Governance Advisor at the United Nations Development Program, and the President of the [[ISOC]] Benin Chapter.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pierre-dandjinou/5/494/b31 linkedin.com]</ref> In November 2012, he was appointed as [[ICANN]]'s Vice Presidents for Stakeholder Engagement for Africa, a position that reports to [[Sally Costerton]] and is part of CEO [[Fadi Chehadé]]'s goal to expand ICANN outreach and involvement to the developing world and improve the international makeup of the organization.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-28nov12-en.htm 28Nov12, ICANN.org]Published 28 Nov 12, retrieved 10 Jan 2013</ref>

Pierre was a Regional Policy Advisor on [[ICT]] for Development at SURF/UNDP, Africa. He served as a Programme Officer for UNDP (1997-2000); in this position, he coordinated the Africa node of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP). 

Pierre is involved with many IT related initiatives on the continent, and is a member of various Advisory Committees including [[AfriNIC]], the [[ALAC|At-Large Advisory  Committee]] at [[ICANN]], and the [[GIPI|Global Internet Policy Initiative]].<ref>[http://www.itu.int/africainternet2000/speakers/bio.html itu.int]</ref>

Pierre’s current specific areas of interest are e-strategies, e-governance and e-Parliaments as means for fostering use of ICTs for human development in Africa.<ref>[http://thepublicvoice.org/events/capetown04/conf_speakers.html thepublicvoice]</ref>

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