Mouhamet Diop
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| Country: | Senegal |
| Email: | mouhamet [at] next.sn |
| Facebook: |  [Mouhamet Diop Mouhamet Diop]
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| LinkedIn: |  [Mouhamet Diop Mouhamet Diop]
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Mouhamet Diop is the CEO of NEXT SA, consulting company in Senegal (West Africa). He was selected for the ICANN Board by the Addressing Support Organization.[1]
He is the Permanent Secretary of ISOC Senegal Chapter and Telecom Society. He is also an ITU, UNIDO expert for the development of Telecommunications and ICTs in developing countries. He is a member of the IDN/ICANN committee. In 2000 Mouhamet Diop attended as an IT expert to define for the Senegalese government vision and a strategy to build IT infostructures in senagal.
He is involved in the Afrinic process to set up a new emerging RIR and in the IDN committee. Now he is a AfriNIC observer at the ASO address council, Executive committee on the Steering committee of AfriNIC. AfriNIC is the Regional Internet Registry for the African continent.[2]
Work
In 2000, he started his own company called NEXT SA and is involved in commercial internet services. Prior to starting NEXT SA, he worked for SONATEL (the Senegalese National Telecom Company) from 1993 to 2001. It is the second LIR (Local Internet Registry) in West Africa. He served as the Data Network Manager and built the biggest IP-Based network in West Africa.
Education
Mouhamet Diop holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Chemistry from University Cheikh Anta Diop, and a Ph. D. Certificate in Computer Science "Parallelism and distributed Systems" from University of Rennes (IFSIC). He also holds an MBA in Finance from ESSEC (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) at Cergy in France in 1993. He graduated from ENST de Bretagne in Telecommunications Engineering: "Computer Science and Networking" France, and holds a telecom engineering degree from ESMT Dakar obtained with highest honours in 1990.[3]