Pierre Dandjinou

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Country: Benin
Email: dandjinou.pierre [at] undp.org
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Pierre Dandjinou is the Director at INFOCOM Intelligence, Chairman at AfriNIC, E-Governance Advisor at the United Nations Development Program, and the President of the ISOC Benin Chapter.[1] In November 2012, he was appointed as ICANN's Vice Presidents for Stakeholder Engagement for Africa, a position that reports to Sally Costerton and is part of CEO Fadi Cheahadé's goal to expand ICANN outreach and involvement to the developing world.[2]

Pierre was a Regional Policy Advisor on ICT for Development at SURF/UNDP, Africa. He served as a Programme Officer for UNDP (1997-2000); in this position, he coordinated the Africa node of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP).

Pierre is involved with many IT related initiatives on the continent, and is a member of various Advisory Committees including AfriNIC, the At-Large Advisory Committee at ICANN, and the Global Internet Policy Initiative.[3]

Pierre’s current specific areas of interest are e-strategies, e-governance and e-Parliaments as means for fostering use of ICTs for human development in Africa.[4]

References

  1. linkedin.com
  2. 28Nov12, ICANN.orgPublished 28 Nov 12, retrieved 10 Jan 2013
  3. itu.int
  4. thepublicvoice