Didier Kasole
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| Country: | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Email: | dkasole [at] gmail.com |
| LinkedIn: |  [didier-kasole Didier Kasole]
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Didier (Rukeratabaro) Kasole (born 27 march 1959) is an ICT Consultant and the Owner at Supranet[1], the Chief Technology Officer of Roffe Hitech Internet Service Provider and a board member of AfriNic and Afrispa.[2]
He also chairs the Democratic Republic of Congo Internet Society Chapter, and is a founding member of the Internet Service Provider Association Democratic Republic of Congo. He is an active member of the African Network Operator Group (AFNOG) (http://www.afnog.org), and is an Instructor at AFNOG workshops. He is a Member of “Groupe de Travaille francophone pour Internet”. Previously, he maintained the Aftld (African Top Level Domains) mailing list.[3]
Didier Kasole was member of ICANN Nominating Committee 2003.[4]
Didier Kasole took active part in the the development of Internet in University of Kinshasa. After the Internet Society Workshop 99, he installed the first mail server at University of Kinshasa, in collaboration with the NSRC (Network Startup Resource Center) and Workshop trainer Brian Candler.[5]. He also conducted a Linux seminar at Faculté des Sciences on Linux Router and servers.
Didier Kasole has a Master of Science Physics from the University of Kinshasa, and is fluent in French, English, Swahili, and Lingala. His home town is Kinshasa.
==Career History
- From jully 1992 to February 2002, Didier Kasole was the "Consultant Informatique” at
Zaire-Shell.
- From may 1991 to Jully 1992, he worked as "Conseiller en Informatique" at Centre
de Cooperation Zaire-Canada and Consultant at Canadian Embassy en Kinshasa.
- From mach 1989 to May 1991, he served as the "Chef de cellule Informatique" at "Centre National de Coordination de la Formation pour de Developpement" (CENACOF)
- From 1994 to 1997 he was the trainer of the CICR staff in Zaire and Brazzaville.
- Since May 2004, he is serving as the Board member of Afrinic (The Internet Registry for Africa)
- Currently he is a Board member of Afrispa ( African ISP Association ) and Team Leader for Afrispa Internet Exchange task force afix.afrispa.org
- He is also an Instructor for "Appui au desenclavement numerique" , a French
project to bridge digital divide in Africa.
- Currently he is serving as an ICT Consultant and Chief Technology Officer of Roffe
Hitech Internet Service Provider.