About the Internet Society 

Board of Trustees

2002 Board Election

Chapter Candidates

Pierre OUEDRAOGO

pierre.ouedraogo@francophonie.org

Professional Address:
INTIF (Francophone institute for information and learning technologies)
15, Quai Louis XVIII 33000 Bordeaux France
Phone # (33) 5 56 01 59 23 Fax # (33) 5 56 51 78 49

Date of Birth: 12/05/1954
Married, 5 children

Education

• 1994 - 1995 DES en informatique de gestion (information systems), Institut d'Administration et de Gestion et à la Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium).
• 1992 - 1993 Business Administration diploma, Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium)
• 1989 - 1990 Maîtrise en Sciences Physiques ( BA Physics) à l'Institut de Mathématiques et de Physique, Ouagadougou University (Burkina Faso)

Professional

• 1998 - Information Society program manager, Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
• 1996 - 1998 Burkina Faso government expert for information highways
• 1996 - 1998 National internet connectivity project Team leader, Office
  National des Telecommunications, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
• 1996 - 1998 Head of Computer Department, Office National des Telecommunications, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
• 1988 - 1992 Deputy head, National telecom equipment repair Office National des Telecommunications, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) .
• 1983 - 1987 Member of Burkina Faso government responsible for youth and mass organizations
• 1977- 1982 Deputy head of technical services and avionics labs leader,
  Ouagadougou Air Force Base, (Burkina Faso)

ICT policy and project management

• Janvier 2002 - Francophonie representative at the ECOWAS ministers meeting on NEPAD (new Parternership for African Development), Dakar
• December 2001 Participation to the INFODEV forum in Washington DC
• Mai 2001 Participation at the Numeric economy day during UN LDC (Least developed countries) 3rd conference, Brussels
• 2001 Organization of the symposium on law, arbitration and e-commerce with Juris International, Tunis
• 2000 2001 Presentations on internet issues done at the ITU Forums on
  telecommunications regulation in Africa Gaborone (Bostwana) and Rabat
  (Morocco).
• 2000 2001 Organizer and presenter at the open source and development
  workshop during the world wide Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux (July 2000 and 2001) with the participation of African open source software associations.
• 1999 2001 Internet Society (ISOC):
  Participation at INET'99 in San José, INET'2000 in Yokohoma and INET Stockholm, with presentations made at the Developing countries network symposium in San Jose and Stockholm
• 1999 - 2002 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  Team leader of Francophone working group on ICANN, member of ICANN SLT task force and participation to ICANN meetings: Cairo (2000), Yokohama (2000), Los Angeles (2000 et 2001), Melbourne (2001), Stockholm (2001), Montevideo (2001), Accra (2002)
• 2000 - 2001 AFRINIC and AFNOG
• Participation to AFRINIC and AFNOG meetings in Cape town (2000), and Accra (2001)
• 1999 - Founding member of the African open source network «Linux Afrique» with 12 open source users associations in 12 African countries
  1999 Development of training tracks and organisation of worships:
  • Linux networking and administration: Abidjan (1999), Antananarivo (1999), Libreville (1999), Niamey (2000), Lomé (2000)
  • Internet security (Linux firewalling with Netfilter): Lomé (2001)
  • Dynamic web pages construction with open source tools including a lab on e-commerce site construction: Niamey (2001)
• 1998 African regional conference on internet governance, Cotonou (Benin)
  Co-organisation with UNDP of that conference that leaded to consensus for setting up AFRINIC the African regional internet registry 1998 UNDP IIA (Internet Initiative for Africa) project, Burkina Faso Design of national IP backbone architecture
• 1997 1998 Burkina Faso government
  Participation as government expert to the first Francophone ministers in
  charge of information highways, Montreal (Canada) and to the preparatory
  meeting in Genoa
• 1996 1997 Fasonet project, Office National des Télécommunications (Burkina Faso)
  Realizing the first IP connexion of the country
  • Technical specifications of the national internet node
  • Negotiation and establishment of the first international IP link
  • Re-delegation and management of the ccTLD .bf
  • IP address allocation as LIR (local internet registry) with RIPE
    1994 PANAFTEL/ACDI project, Office National des Télécommunications, Burkina Faso
    At the National telecom equipment repair (in charge of telecom and
    computing equipments maintenance):
  • Start up of Huntron computer aid troubleshooting system to reduce repair cost and delays
  • Spare parts stocks management ported on STOGID software

Field of special interest
Member of ASN (African Stakeholders Network) of UN ICT task force
Member of ICANN SLT (Simultaneous Language Translation)
Founding member of MINC (Multilingual Internet Names Consortium)
Founding member of Afrinic and Afnog
Founder of African open source network "Linux Afrique"
Founding member of Burkina Faso ISOC Chapter and Unix Users Association
(ABUU)
Leader of "Open source and development" workshop in the annual world wide LSM (Libre software meeting)

Languages
French
English (graduate from Defence Language Institute, San Antonio au Texas)
Spanish
More (Burkina Faso)