Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor
FATHER OF INTERNET AFRICA
HOW THE INTERNET CAME TO AFRICA
Championed by
Prof Nii Narku Quaynor
The Ghanaian professor is known as “Africa’s father of the internet,” a web pioneer who helped establish some of the continent’s first online connections.
For some 20 years now, soft-spoken Quaynor has been at the forefront of web development across Africa. He is the first African to be elected to the board of ICANN, the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers. He’s also played an important part in launching the African Network Operators Group and AfriNIC, the African internet numbers registry.
FATHER OF INTERNET IN AFRICA
Biography
Nii Quaynor graduated from Dartmouth College in 1972 with B.A (Engineering Science) and received a Ph.D (Computer Science) in distributed systems in 1977 from S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook.
He worked with DEC, U.S.A from 1977 till 1992 and returned to Ghana to establish the first ISP operated by Network Computer Systems in 1993. He had earlier in 1977 established the Computer Science department at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is the Convener of AfNOG, a network technology transfer institution since 2000 and founding Chairman of AFRINIC, the African numbers registry. Nii taught microprocessors with International Center for Theoretical Physics in several developing countries.
Boards Served
ICANN
UN
IGF
NITA
GHIPPS
NIA
ISOC – GHANA
IGF
My Affiliations
