Fatimata Seye Sylla
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Fatimata Seye Sylla is an Independent Information Technology and Services Professional,an ALAC Member at ICANN and a Council member at FOSSFA. [1] She is also the founding President of Bokk Jang 2B1-SN NGO, the Executing Agency for DFI and OSIWA E-Riders in Senegal, a founding member of SIRIS and ISOC associations in Senegal, of REGENTI, a gender and ICT network and FOSSFA and is the National Coordinator of ACSIS Senegal.
Fatimata Seye Sylla has a degree in mathematics. She also is a M.I.T./ Media Lab Master of Science with a first university degree from Le Havre University (France) on computer Science. She has a post graduate management degree from the African regional school in Dakar (CESAG). [2]
She has attended many training programs on computer science, data base management, computers in education, web design, internet, multimedia, networking. After working for ten years within the Senegalese government as a project manager, and for 9 years as the General Manager of a computer service company in Senegal, she has run the 3 year USAID funded Program "Digital Freedom Initiative" in Senegal as the Program Director. As an international consultant for Unesco, UNFPA, UNECA, ITU, USAID, UNDAW, FRANCOPHONIE and IDRC, she has set up computer systems and trained african professionals in several workshops. She has conducted research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies use in Education, gender and development and has written several papers in the same field; some of them are published. She is a member of CATIA (Catalyzing Access to ICTs in Africa) Steering Committee Board. She has been actively involved whole process of WSIS as a member of the WSIS Gender Caucus, FOSSFA Council and ACSIS.
Career History[edit | edit source]
- Program Manager at Digital Freedom Initiative Senegal / Geekcorps, 2003-2006.
- Board Member at ISOC Senegal, 1998-2009.
- Council member at FOSSFA, 2003 to present.
- ALAC Member at ICANN, 2007 to present