Souleymane Oumtanaga

Country:	Ivory Coast
Email:	oumtana [at] nic.ci

Souleymane Oumtanaga is the General Manager of Nic.ci He has held this position since 1992. He is also a professor at the national Polytechnic Institute Felix Houphouët-Boigny. He is also a member of the LARIT.

He serves as the Director, Strategic Partnerships at APTLD.

Career History

Mr. Oumtanaga has served as the head of CFTIC (Training centre for Information and Communication Technologies), EDIA ( Doctoral School of Computer Sciences) and the University of Rennes. He is the initiator of many internet related projects in his country like the AI3L and the CIIXP and IPV6 deployment in Ivory Coast.

He has been the Vice President of Capacity Building and has worked at INPHB.

He was AFNIC International College members in 2003.

He was an instructor at 2nd EURO-NF Summer School on Socio-Economic and Governance Issues.

Meetings and Workshops

He was a speaker at Internet Governance, Role of AfriNIC and IPv4 to IPv6 Challenges. He was the chair at Advanced Registry Operation Course Workshop during two sessions. He was a panelist at Worldwide NIC's co-development : "Joint initiative for an automated management" He was a speaker at FORUM FOR AFRICAN POLICY MAKERS AND REGULATORS ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE He was a chair at 4th AfTLD African ccTLD Event.

He attended First African ccTLD Workshop, where he gave a presentation about automated Registry System.>>>

He attends AFTLD meetings. ICANN Meetings AfriNIC meetings. In 2009, he seconded Dr. Paulos Nyirenda to represent African Region at ccNSO council. while he himself also represents Africa at the ccNSO council.

Presentations

PRINCIPES ET FONCTIONNEMENT

Country code top-level domain

Country Code Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ICANN Bylaws).