Boubakar Barry
ORG Association of African Universities (AAU)
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Boubakar Barry is Coordinator of the Research and Education Networking Unit at the Association of African Universities (AAU). Prior to joining the AAU, he was Director of the Computer Centre of Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Senegal for 8 years (1998-2006). During his tenure as Director, he set up the Senegalese nodes of various projects, including AVOIR (African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources), NetTel@Africa and DelPHE. Since 1997, he is also Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Network Information Centre of Senegal (NIC Senegal) that manages the country-code top level domain .SN.