Africa

Hermann Toffodji Aplogan is Founder and Managing Director of MobileTech Africa, a mobile application development agency focused on Mobile Marketing and Mobile Commerce, as well as on the WSA-Mobile implementation in Benin. Every two years, MobileTech Africa will organize in Benin an exhibition called ‘’Mobil’Expo’’ advocated to promote the WSA-Mobile winners products as well as their localization in Sub-Saharan Africa. The first edition of this exhibition will take place in December 2010.
Hermann is the former president of Afrique Emergence, a NGO which specializes in empowerment of African young people in ICT sector. He was selected to represent Benin at the ITU-International Telecommunication Union World Youth Forum at Geneva in 2003 and obtained in 2005, the ITU VODAFONE YES SCHOLARSHIP to complete his Master degree in Management and Communication. He also took part at the ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008 event in Bangkok as the ITU Youth Forum Alumni.
In 2008, he worked with Positivo Informatica (Brazil) as Benin-based Independent Vendor of the E-Blocks® software, a multi-sensory learning approach for beginners. In 2005, E-Blocks® received the prestigious WSA Award for the best e-Learning solution.
Mr. Aplogan is also co-founder of CarWash Africa Inc., a group of companies dealing and working with WashTec Group (Germany), the world market leader in car washing technology, to modernize the car wash industry in West and Central Africa.

JEAN PAUL NKURUNZIZA is actually the animator of the pilot project of Digital Solidarity Fund in Burundi and Secretary General of BYTC ( Burundi Youth training Centre : www.bytc.bi) In 2006, Jean Paul NKURUNZIZA was elected as the deputy Chairman of the Burundian Chapter of ISOC ( www.isoc.bi ). In 2007, Jean Paul NKURUNZIZA is leading the Burundi Community Telecentre Network. As formal training, Jean Paul NKURUNZIZA graduated in Educational Sciences in 2000 from the University of Burundi. From that date, he got interested by ICT. He followed the WSIS process. That is why he got in touch with the WSA project. Then, he was the national WSA Expert for Burundi, in 2003, 2005 and 2007. From March 2007 to July 2007, he successfully attended the online training on Internet Governance organised by Diplo Foundation (www.diplomacy.edu). For 2008, Jean Paul NKURUNZIZA is following the training program for tutor in order to be able to be an authorised tutor for online training on Internet Governance.

Apart from his activities at the university and his engagement at the UNEP (United Nation Environment Program) as associate advisor, the main thrust of intervention's policies in advanced technologies of Mr. TAY Kudzo: GEOGRAPHIC AREA: WEST AFRICA, Côte d'Ivoire; Heightening public awareness through the organisation of the internet festival in Africa since 1997. Research and consulting by the creation of an IT observatory in West Africa, at French culture centre. Administrator of FR@NCONET network: multiplication of common access points with the support of: INTIF, Bordeaux France and the world Bank group. member of Internet Society, prize winner of the Belgium excellence centre of telecommunication (cetel), Member of global alliance for youth employment, Member of the Global Community Network, Author of many reports/ Communication/ Publications on the IT4D–IT for development Thematic.

His network is currently studying the coverage of rural zones in West Africa by wireless access technologies.