Poncelet Ileleji

Poncelet O. Ileleji is a Computer Scientist by Profession with 25 years in the field; he has been involved with the use of ICT as a tool for sustainable development both as he is the Lead / CEO of Jokkolabs Banjul(www.jokkolabs.net), in The Gambia. He has also served as consultant for several projects in Africa covering ICT for D, Learning, Technologies and Education, Internet Governance and Health Informatics. He also ran the YMCA Computer Training Centre and Digital Studio from inception. He served also as an International Coordinator for the International YMCA of New York, International Camp Counselor Program. Poncelet served as the country coordinator for the World Links program in the Gambia during the program life cycle in The Gambia from 2001 to 2005, The program was funded and initiated by the World Bank and it adopted a constructivist approach to teaching with ICT that emphasized a shift away from teacher centered lecture-based instruction towards student-centered, project-based learning during the program life cycle from 2001 to 2005 in the Gambia.

An active member of the Association for Progressive Communication www.apc.org He is a founding member of the Information Technology Association of the Gambia and was elected president of the Association in March 2010 is term ended in April 2014 (www.itag.gm ). He is also the national resource person for the West African Internet Governance Forum www.waigf.org the Gambian Chapter and former board member of Africa ICT alliance www.aficta.org and he is a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) NPOC Constituency www.npoc.org served as Policy Chair and representing NPOC on the Policy Committee of the Non Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) of ICANN he has also volunteers on various ICANN working groups and presently co chair of the Standing Selection Committee of ICANN GNSO. . He also served on the Working Group for WG 3 – Privacy and Transparency Online for Freedom Coalition, https://www.freedomonlinecoalition.com/how-wework/working-groups/working-group-3/ and also represents is organization in the Open Data Charter as a Steward on the implementation committee, http://opendatacharter.net/ . He leads is organization partnership with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data https://www.data4sdgs.org/partner/jokkolabs-banjul and he is a Board member of the San Francisco, USA based Technology not for profit Net Freedom Pioneers www.netfreedompioneers.org and a visiting lecturer at the Business University in Dakar, Senegal www.bem.sn

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