Adiel A. Akplogan is the Chief Executive Officer of AfriNIC Ltd., the Internet Numbers’ Resource Registry for Africa since 2004. With more than 15 years experience in the Internet Technology environment, he has previously worked as New Technology Director at CAFENet (an IT service company based in Togo – 1994-2000), then as IT Director of Symbol Technologies in France (2001-2003). He is member of the UN Secretary General Internet Governance Forum Advisors Group since 2006, and the OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) group of Expert on Internet Governance since 1999. He has served in the African Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (ATAC/UNECA) from 2005-2006.
As CEO of AfriNIC, Mr Akplogan also serve as the Secretary of the NRO Executive Council (Number Resource Organization – http://www.nro.net) and was involved with the setting up of several technical coordination bodies in Africa such as the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) where he serves as a member of the Administrative committee and the African ccTLD Managers Association (AfTLD).
With a strong passion for Internet technology, he is one of the Internet pioneers in West Africa where, in early 90’s, he setup and started one of the very first private and independent Internet Service Providers in the region (CAFENet).
He has also contributed and written several articles on Internet and IT among which: Network protocol Integration (case of Novell SPX/IPX Network and IBM/AS400 using TCP/IP) -10/1994; Internet Technology a short way to development in Africa (10/1996); Internet Security in a corporate environment a continuous process (02/1998); Intranet/Internet a pair for an efficient management of Information in Africa business environment (04/1999); How not to be a spam relay: efficient configuration of Sendmail (May 2000); Wireless architecture a solution for inadequacy of African legacy telecommunication Infrastructure (June 2000); Network Operation Centre: Key component of an efficient Internet Network Service (2001); Internet Governance, the fact (UN/ECA,2002); IPv6: an E-business opportunity. (2003); The Power of Ideas: Internet Governance in a Global Multi-Stakeholder Environment – The Internationalisation of Internet Resource Management: An African Perspective (2007), Tell me the future (the Guardian – Monday December 3 2007).
Adiel is an Electrical Engineer and holds a M.Sc. in E-Business and New Technology Management.
