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Board of Trustees2000 Board ElectionCandidatesWawa A. Ngenge<wangenge@sdncmr.undp.org> Nominated by: Jeff
Smith <jasmith@well.com> I am willing to serve in the capacity of trustee of ISOC if elected. I am currently National Coordinator for the UNDP's Sustainable Development Networking Programme in Cameroon (SDNP: www.sdnp.undp.org/sdncmr). Some of the work I have spearheaded at SDNP Cameroon has been considered as a success story by both SDNP New York (www.sdnp.undp.org/stories) and NETAID, the UNDP-CISCO initiative to use the Internet in the fight against poverty, which was launched in September 1999. In addition, I am a member of the Provisional ISTF Internet Societal Steering Group (ISSG), Vice President of the nascent ISOC Chapter for Cameroon, and member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the African Development Forum thread on "The Challenge to Africa of Globalization and the Information Age", which was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in October 1999, and for which we are now designing concrete follow-up actions. The ADF is sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. I have submitted, on the basis of that work and others, a proposal for the use of information technology for poverty alleviation and sustainable development in Cameroon to UNDP, which has already agreed to fund a three-month preparatory phase (1 Jan - 31 Mar 2000) to further develop the idea into a ful-fledged programme of cooperation between the UNDP and the Cameroonian government in this domain. Most of my internet related work to date has been on the search for ways and means of increasing access to the internet, both technology and content as well as community networking, the evaluation of internet connectivity needs for NGOs in Cameroon, the promotion of open source software, Linux in particular. I cannot think of anything else to tell you at this time. I am available for any additional information you might need for your assessment work. Regards Wawa -- Wawa A. Ngenge (Ph.D), National Coordinator, SDNP Cameroon B.P. 30655 Biyem Assi, Yaounde, Cameroon (Personal Mail) B.P. 836, Yaounde, Cameroon (Official Mail) Tel/Fax: (237) 22 21 82 wangenge@sdncmr.undp.org;
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