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'''Mouhamet Diop''' is the CEO of [[NEXT SA]], consulting company in Senegal (West Africa). He was selected for the [[ICANN Board]] by the [[Addressing Support Organization]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mouhamet-diop/0/602/413 linkedin profile]</ref>

He is the Permanent Secretary of [[ISOC]] Senegal Chapter and Telecom Society. He is also an [[ITU]], [[UNIDO]] expert for the development of Telecommunications and ICTs in developing countries. He is a member of the [[IDN/ICANN committee]]. In 2000 Mouhamet Diop attended as an IT expert to define for the Senegalese government vision and a strategy to build IT infostructures in senagal.

He is involved in the Afrinic process to set up a new emerging [[RIR]] and in the [[IDN]] committee. Now he is a AfriNIC observer at the ASO address council, Executive committee on the Steering committee of AfriNIC. [[AfriNIC]] is the Regional Internet Registry for the African continent.<ref>[http://aso.icann.org/people/ac-appointments-to-icann-board/previous-aso-appointments-to-the-icann-board-2/mouhamet-diop/ Mouhamet Diop - ASO]</ref>

==Work==

In 2000, he started his own company called NEXT SA and is involved in commercial internet services. Prior to starting [[NEXT SA]], he worked for [[SONATEL]] (the Senegalese National Telecom Company) from 1993 to 2001. It is the second [[LIR]] (Local Internet Registry) in West Africa. He served as the Data Network Manager and built the biggest IP-Based network in West Africa.

==Education==

Mouhamet Diop holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Chemistry from University Cheikh Anta Diop, and a Ph. D. Certificate in Computer Science "Parallelism and distributed Systems" from University of Rennes (IFSIC). He also holds an MBA in Finance from ESSEC (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) at Cergy in France in 1993. He graduated from ENST de Bretagne in Telecommunications Engineering: "Computer Science and Networking" France, and holds a telecom engineering degree from ESMT Dakar obtained with highest honours in 1990.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/diop.htm ICANN Biography data]</ref>

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