Souleymane Oumtanaga

Country:	Cote D'ivoire
Email:	oumtana [at] nic.ci
Currently a member of ICANN's ccNSO

Souleymane Oumtanaga is the General Manager of NIC.CI, a position he has held since 1992. Oumtanaga is also a Professor at the National Polytechnic Institute Felix Houphouët-Boigny. He is also a member of the LARIT, serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at APTLD, and represents the African region in the ccNSO council.

Since 2009, he has represented the African Region on the ccNSO Council.

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. He is the initiator of many Internet-related projects in his country, such as the AI3L, the CIIXP, and IPv6 deployment in Ivory Coast.

He has been the Vice President of Capacity Building and has worked at INPHB.

He was AFNIC International College member in 2003.

Meetings and Workshops

He attends AfTLD meetings, ICANN Meetings, and AfriNIC meetings.

He was a speaker at the Internet Governance Forum, Role of AfriNIC and IPv4 to IPv6 Challenges. and was the chair at Advanced Registry Operation Course Workshop during two sessions. He was a panelist at Worldwide NIC's co-development : "Joint initiative for an automated management"

Mr. Oumtanga was a speaker at Forum for African Policy Makers and Regulators on Internet Governance. He was a chair at 4th AfTLD African ccTLD Event.

He attended First African ccTLD Workshop, where he gave a presentation about automated Registry Systems.

He was an instructor at 2nd EURO-NF Summer School on Socio-Economic and Governance Issues.

Presentations

• "Principes et Fonctionnement"