ahmed Mahmoud eisa
| Organization | Gedaref digital city organization |
|---|---|
| Organization type | Civil Society Organization/NGO |
| Organization role |
chairman
|
| Country | Sudan |
| Area of Expertise |
http://gedaref.com
|
Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Eisa
** B.Sc. Agriculture (agronomy) Khartoum University (1981)
** M.Sc. (Agriculture) Manhattan Kansas USA (1985)
** State Minister of Agriculture Sudan 1988
** Parliament member 1986 – 1989
** Winner of seven (7) international ICT4D awards
** Representative of parliament in the national research council (1986 -1989)
** Gedaref & alsharq Universities council’s member
** former board member in agriculture bank, farmer bank and sudan comercial bank but no longer a business man
** Certificate from ITU as one of the best Global digital talents 2011 Geneva
** Founder of the first Telecentre academy in Africa and Middle East and the thirteen in the world
** GDCO is part of the telecentre movement where 87534 Telecentres in 52 countries, 72 national networks and 6 regional networks are sharing knowledge, experiences and best practices for disadvantage, under-served and marginalized communities development through ICT.
** GDCO is a member in the UN-ESCWA knowledge network for disadvantage, marginalized, under-served communities.
** GDCO participated in the world summit of information society forum WSIS since 2009 and it had annual workshop, exhibition and many interventions. Also developed with ITU an initiative to write for WSIS iwrite4wsis.
** It is member of Telecentre MENA, EATLF. It is a big blogger on many community Ning websites and has more than 4000 photos, 200 blogs, and 25 videos. It is a winner of 7 international information for development awards and reached 11 times the semi-final for other awards.
** GDCO participated in the WSIS since 2009 with workshop, exhibition and many interventions annually.
** It organized with UN-ESCWA a workshop in January 2010
** Organized with Ugabytes and its partners (telecentre.org, IDRC, Microsoft and HIVOS) in 2008 and the first Telecentre academy in Africa and middle east was founded.
** It is a supporting or media partner for 10 global workshops and conferences without paying a dollar in a win-win partnership.
** participated in more than 65 global conferences, workshops and exhibitions and presented more than 35 papers and most of them are online to share knowledge, experiences and best practices through ICT to connect marginalized, under served and disadvantage communities equally and no one left behind for better sustainable development.
** member on the UN-ESCWA networks for marginalized, under served and disadvantage communities.
** Partner with ITU in iwrite4wsis initiatives to promote for the world summit on information society (WSIS)
** As state minister of agriculture (1988) and parliament member, I passed the law of national forestry corporation, which stated the growing of 10% forest in mechanized rain fed schemes and 5% in irrigated schemes.
** in 1992 I work as volunteer in technical committee to implement the law of 1988 and we grow more than 40 kilometer (15 meter wide) strip of forest along the high way of Gedaref Khartoum
** Iam from a big family growing crops in eastern Sudan and my father was the first in Sudan or replanted 2000 acres with forest trees in early 1970s
** as student in Khartoum university we protested against the government 1979 for offering investors 10.000 feddans (1 feddan= 4200 square meters) of forest trees to grow sorghum and sesame until the succeeded
** again we protest in May 2014 against offering investors 10.000 fedans (4200 square meters) of forest trees to grow sorghum and sesame until the succeeded