NKURUNZIZA JEAN PAUL's Blog (8)

Family name: Nkurunziza

First name: Jean Paul

Gender: Male

Country of residence: Burundi

Organisation: ISOC Burundi Chapter…

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L'histoire de BurundiX commence le 31  Janvier 2010, lors de la quatorzième Assemble ordinaire des Chefs d'Etats de l'Union Africaine, à Addis Abeba en Ethiopie. A l'issue de cette conférence, les Chefs d'Etat ont en effet décidé de renforcer la coopération régionale afin de mettre en place des Points d'Echange Internet nationaux et régionaux. L'objectif global de ce programme : Réduire les frais que les pays africains sont obligés de payer aux…

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Full name: Jean Paul Nkurunziza

Gender: Male

Nationality:Burundian

Country of residence:Burundi

Organisation: Burundi Youth Training Centre ( BYTC), ISOC-Burundi

1. Background and/or experience in IG (50 words); feel free to include a link:

Attended the DiploFoundation online course on Internet Governance in 2007  and became the tutor for francophone groups,  and later,  I tutored the francophone groups within the ISOC's Next…

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E-Atlas is an initiative from social researchers mainly from Toulouse Le Mirail University ( France) . Their goal is to understand how local collectivities behave with respect to the emergence of the Information Society.

However, E-Atlas is not a purely scientific research project. It’s a strong partnership between the research world and diverse stakeholders involved in the information society ( local administrations, NGOs, private actors, ….

The first E-Atlas Francophon West Africa… Continue

Hi !

Burundi Youth Training Centre ( my organization), organised a remote participation hub to IGF 2009 in Bujumbura.

(but we couldn't register our hub into the list of official remote hubs because I was travelling some days before the event).

BYTC has been created 1999. Our core actions are oriented in ICTs especially for Youths : ( training, sensitization, etc...)

The goal of the remote hub for IGF was to create awareness and sensitize burundian youths on different issues… Continue

For the second EAIGF, I arrived late and a bit tired (on my way back from the GAID Global forum in Monterrey, Mexico)!

I could catch the session of 8th September in the afternoon and the one of the 9th September in the morning.



The session of 8th September afternoon was about critical Internet resources in the region. Adiel Akplogan ( from ICANN) presented about the allocation of IP addresses. One fact is that is that this allocation is a bottom-up, continuous and open… Continue

Hello all,

In the framework of the EAIGF 2009 scheduled from September 7th to 9th in Nairobi, ISOC BURUNDI ( Burundian chapter of ISOC) is organizing the 1st IGF BURUNDI.

IGF Burundi is scheduled on September 1st to 2nd 2009, under the high patronage of the Ministry of Transport, Post and Telecommunications. It will take place at “The White Stone” building.

About one hundred participants have invited, coming from different institutions : Government, Senate, Parliament, CSOs,… Continue

I and some members of ISOC Burundi have been thinking of an IGF in Burundi for burundian stakeholders.

I had been thinking that it would be hard to create awareness on IG issues as Burundi was absent even in EAIGF (http://www.eaigf.or.ke/abteaigf.html).

I got a very good news for that process this morning in Hyderabad : While attending the "Second Parliamentary Forum on Shaping the Information Society : the Role of Parliaments and Legislators", I could meet one MP from… Continue