Waleed Khaliqi

Organization:	NITPAA
Affiliation:	ALAC
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Region:	Asia
Country:	Afghanistan
Email:	waleed_khaliqi [at] live.com
Website:	MyNetworkingLabs.Com
Facebook:	Waleed Khaliqi
LinkedIn:	Waleed Khaliqi
Twitter:	@AWkhaliqi

Waleed Khaliqi (ولید خالقی) current President of NITPAA; is an Afghan IT Technologist, activist and blogger from Kabul, Afghanistan who has been actively involved in community, and capacity building of his Afghan fellows since 2012. Waleed holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (BCS) majoring in Network and Telecommunication, from Kardan University. Beside his volunteer responsibilities as the President of National IT Professionals Association of Afghanistan, Waleed is a full time employee of Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture where he works as a General Technical manager since 2012.

For living he works with Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC) as a General Technical Manager Khaliqi has been full time employee of Afghan Ministry of Information & Culture as an IT and has several years of professional experience with his current employer, Bakhtar News agency as a Senior IT & Website Administrator.

Khaliqi writes articles for media, and has skills in online/offline journalism and blogging. He is also part of NITPAA (National IT Professional Association of Afghanistan), he joined NITPAA back in 2015 as a regular member but, in a short period of time he was able to make it to NITPAA executive board. His passion in ICT, commitment, dedication and immense achievements in executive board were visible to all and soon he was appointed as chair of NITPAA Public Awareness Committee by NITPAA leadership. After an election he is now serving the community as a President of NITPAA and will continue till Dec - 2017.

Career

• President of NITPAA (National IT Professional Association of Afghanistan) | Oct - 2016 --- Dec - 2017

• Senior IT and Website Administrator With Bakhtar News Agency |

• IT with Afghan Ministry of Information & culture |

• Public Awareness Committee Chair of NITPAA |

• Executive Board Member of NITPAA |

ICANN Involvement

Participant in ICANN57, Hyderabad, India.

Involvement in Internet Governance

Participated in inSIG 2016 which was the very first Indian School of Internet Governance in Hyderabad.

Education

BCS Kardan University

Diploma in Business Administration

Diploma in Accountancy

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.