CYBERSECURITY SYMPOSIUM
BIOGRAPHY
Geneva, 03 - 04 October 2005
NLEND Raphaël
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Cameroon)
Session:
8 – Security Standards for the Developing Countries and Countries with
Economies in Transition
Title of
Presentation:
Security Standards for the Developing Countries and Countries with
Economies in Transition
Mr. NLEND Raphaël is presently the contact point of Study Group 17 for problems of
security, languages, and telecommunication software concerning Developing Countries and
Countries with Economies in transition (DC/CET). He has been actively involved in many ITU
activities concerning developing countries. Some of these activities include the African preparatory
meeting of the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2002 (WTDC-02) held in
Yaoundé (2001), the preparatory meeting of the world Telecommunications Development
Conference (Geneva - 2002), the Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (Geneva 2002), the ITU Council (Geneva - 2003), and the ITU-D Study Groups 1 & 2 meetings (Geneva 2004).
Since August 30th 2005, he is the Sub Director in charge of Promotion and Vulgarization of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications of the Republic of Cameroon. Before his appointment as Sub Director, he
served in the General Secretariat of the same ministerial department as Research Officer from 2001
to 2005.
He is presently following up the realization of certain ICT projects in Cameroon amo ngst
which are the multipurpose community telecentres and e- government projects.
Mr. NLEND Raphaël is a Telecommunications Engineer who graduated from the National
Advanced School of Posts and Telecommunications (Cameroon) and has a Master of Science in
Computer Science from the University of Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon). He is presently enrolled in a PhD
programme on computer science in the same University.