Khaled Koubaa

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Country: Tunisia
Website:

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Khaled Koubaa is founder and Executive Director of the Arab World Internet Institute ( AW2I ), the first Research and publication institute dedicated to the Internet in the Arab Region.

As an ICT independent consultant he previously worked for the non-profit sector in Tunisia and Arab and African region : Arab Institute for Human Rights, Tunisian Nutrition Specialist Organization, ENDA Inter Arab and Tunisian Accountants Society. He provides training and one-on-one coaching for organizations and corporate executives on how to choose and implement new information systems and strategies.[1]

Koubaa entered the Internet landscape in 1997 organizing meetings with Tunisian Internet users meetings. He has been involved with Internet Society since 2005, and he participates actively within the WSIS. He founded the Internet Society chapter in Tunisia and serves as president. He participated in the creation of the Arab Internet Societies. He is regularly at the ICANN meeting as the Tunisian At-Large Structure and many other events related to the Internet.[2][3]


Memberships

  • Member of the Public Interest Registry Advisory Council
  • Member of the 2008 ICANN Nomination Committee
  • Member of the Multilingual Internet Initiative

Education

Koubaa earned his bachelor's degree in management from High School of Commerce, Tunisia. He obtained a master's degree in electronic commerce from the High School of Electronic Commerce, and he completed an Internet Governance Capacity Building Program with Diplo Foundation.[4]

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