Burkinabe President Blaise Compaoré appointed new Chairman of ITU’s cyber security board
Blaise Compaoré, President of Burkina Faso, has been appointed Chairman of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), which serves at the executing arm of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in the area of cyber security.
In a statement copied to ghanabusinessnews.com October 25, 2011, the ITU said “Mr Compaoré takes over from former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who served as founding Chairman of the IAB.”
The statement said the handover ceremony was held at the ongoing ITU Telecom World 2011 event in Geneva, in conjunction with the second IAB meeting.
Malaysia’s tenure of the IAB chairmanship (2008-2011) coincided with the period of rapid growth for IMPACT. Today, with 137 Member States formally part of the ITU-IMPACT coalition and with strong support from global industry leaders and partners from academia, ITU-IMPACT has become the largest cyber security alliance of its kind in the world, it said.
By Ekow Quandzie
is this some kind of joke? The baton is passed from a patriarchal Malaysian to a Burkinabe tyrant. In other words, the world can just ignore the IAB and IMPACT as they will contribute little to the world economy and progress.