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.[1]
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.[2] He is the initiator of many internet related projects in his country like the AI3L and the CIIXP and IPV6 deployment in Ivory Coast.[3]
He has been the Vice President of Capacity Building[4] and has worked at INPHB.[5]
He was a speaker at Internet Governance, Role of AfriNIC and IPv4 to IPv6 Challenges.[6] He was the chair at Advanced Registry Operation Course Workshop during two sessions.[7] He was a panelist at Worldwide NIC's co-development : "Joint initiative for an automated management"[8] He was a speaker at FORUM FOR AFRICAN POLICY MAKERS AND REGULATORS ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE[9]
He attends AFTLD meetings.[10] [11][12] ICANN Meetings[13] AfriNIC meetings.[14]
In 2009, he seconded Dr. Paulos Nyirenda to represent African Region at ccNSO council.[15]