Yaovi Atohoun
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Yaovi Atohoun is currently a Senior IT Officer at the Association of African universities based in Accra (Ghana).[1]
Yaovi Atohoun is born in 1964 in Togo (West Africa). He attended an electrical engineering school from 1985 to 1990. He participated on many workshops on Internet technology, wireless technology and policy. [2]
Yaovi Atohoun has more than 18 years work experience in Information and Communication Technology. He is an electrical engineer and has attended many training programs on Telecommunication and Internet infrastructures. As a consultant, he has also worked for many projects involving the use of Information and Communication Technology. These projects include the Democratic Decentralization Dialogue project, the African Juridical Network, the Central Region Network in Ghana and the African Executive Network with RTI. He worked twice as an advisory committee member for a project on E-Governance for CDT (Center for Democracy and Technology).
Yaovi Atohoun is one of the founders of the Internet Society local chapter ISOC-Benin. He attended the first AFRINIC meeting in Cotonou and also has participated in AfriNIC meetings in Maputo, Nairobi and Abuja and has served many times as the Chair of his Election Committee.[3]
Career History=[edit | edit source]
- Yaovi Atohoun professional career started in Lome (Togo) where he set up and managed the local area network in the National News Agency from 1991 to 1992.
- From 1992 to 1997, he traveled to more than 12 countries in West Africa for the West African News Agency Development project (WANAD/UNESCO) to computerize the National News Agencies. During the same period he conducted many training sessions on how to use computer, communication devices and the Internet in Benin and other African countries.
Yaovi Atohoun was the USAID/Leland Initiative Coordinator in Benin where he worked with RTI and Computer-Frontiers from 1997 to 2004.
- He also worked with the AEDCommunity Learning Centre Project in Ghana and the ADEA/EDDI education connectivity project. He traveled to Chad, Rwanda and many West African countries to conduct training sessions, technical equipment installation and policy discussions related to Information Technology for the Leland Initiative. He is part of a team that assisted ECOWAS countries in setting up the West African Telecommunication Regulators Association.
- In May 2004, he was in the Mano River Union countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone) for an assessment on ICT development among the NGOs working on conflict prevention and mitigation.
- Yaovi Atohoun worked in a team for the official recognition of the local ISOC chapter of Benin Republic (ISOC-Benin) in 1999. He was the secretary General of ISOC-Benin from 1999 to July 2009 and currently a member of the board. He participated in the Internet Society annual events (INET) in Geneva (1998), San Jose (1999), Yokohama (2000) and Sweden (2001). In 2002 Yaovi Atohoun was part of the African delegates in the ISOC-Francophonie meeting in Canada.
- In November 2007, he was at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro as one of the African ISOC Ambassador.
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Yaovi Atohoun has been a choirmaster and brass band teacher for many years