Biaou Sourakatou Ramanou (Mr), ICT engineer, Benin

Stakeholder Group: Technical Community

Region: Africa

Biography

I’m Beninese born at Natitingou in northern Benin. After high school, I obtained my Bachelor of Science. Once at university I opt for ICT training for which I was fascinated years ago. Nowadays I am Engineer with a Bachelor of Science and Technology in Engineering and ICT certified Next Generation Leaders in Internet Governance "Shaping the Internet - History and Future" by the Internet Society (ISOC). I have many years of involving in the voluntary and ICT project management, being a member of several working groups and communities working for citizens' initiatives to promote Internet development. I’m the coordinator of the program AFRIC'Action (Online Magazine of Digital Communication on youth initiatives in Africa French countries). In the domain of Technology, I’ve developed some skills and I have a strong interest in ICT for development, network systems, and telephony over internet protocol, domain names and IP addressing. I am also very involved in the domain of mobile application development and implementation of information systems. So in an effort to better involve myself actively in reducing the digital divide in Africa, my colleagues and I decided to implement a business project.