Name: Bope Domilongo Christian Organisation: State University of Kinshasa Position/Role: Lecturer  Physical Address: Manianga 10 Country: Democratic Republic of Congo Nominated by: Fiona Asonga, CEO - TESPOK (Kenya)
	Region: Central Africa

Statement

The development of African continent is synonymous to youth empowerment; hence, there need to develop them in entrepreneurship and leadership skills in the community. The youth represent a bigger portion of the continent, around 66%, so their involvement in the developmental process is of key importance.

After serving on the board of Afrinic community as an alternate director, some of the underlying issues that need to be addressed and improved on the continent include capacity building, youth and women participation; increase internet penetration rate, etc. With collective participation, my vision is to build Internet for everyone through local hub participation at the country level in conjunction with international mentorship.

Mr Bope Domilongo Christian is lecturer at State University of Kinshasa and Founder of CEO of Nsat Sprl (http://www.nsatechnologies.net/fr/) and online newsletter www.aucongo.cd. He holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science, University of Kinshasa-DR Congo, Msc en Mathematics Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape-Town, South Africa and currently PhD scholar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has seven years working experience in the telecommunications sector as Network Service Delivery Lead at IBM DRC (Airtel account). 

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