Said Zazai

Person

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Community	Technical Community
ICANN group	ALAC, Fellowship Program, Other/Special Interest Group
Organization	NITPAA
Region	AP
Country	Afghanistan
Websites	zazai.ca

Said Zazai is an IT Technologist who has been active in the field both professionally and academically for over 15 years. Said holds a Master’s in Business (MBA) Degree, specializing in Management of Information Systems, from Canada’s one of leading Business school, the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. Said’s specializations also include Computer Server Infrastructure, software localization, e-government and Internet Governance.

Said has worked in different international contexts, including Canada, the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has been engaged in working with various industries, including the government, oil & gas, financial sector and retail. He has worked in multi-national corporate environments including Hewlett Packard Canada and the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations in the United Arab Emirates.

Said is an avid supporter of strong community mobilization for ICT sector development at national and global levels. While working as the ICT Advisor to the Minister of Finance in Afghanistan, Said co-founded the National Information Technology Professionals Association (NITPAA), a technology civil society in Afghanistan. He was the first president of NITPAA in the year 2015 and is serving the board ever since. Said has also been actively contributing to the field of Internet Governance in Afghanistan since 2014.

Said has participated in a number of regional and global Internet Governance events, including;

Middle East School on Internet Governance
ICANN 52 Meeting in Singapore
ICANN 59 Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 in Joao Pessoa, Brazil

Said has organized a number of events for NITPAA in Kabul as part of national civil society capacity building, these include;

Event Title	Presenter/Instructor	Moderator	Date	Partner Organization	Host Organization
Introduction to ICANN, Internet Governance & IANA Transition	Fahad Batayenah, ICANN	Said Zazai	26/Apr/2015	ICANN	Netlinks
Panel Discussion on Internet Services Impact on Small Medium Businesses (SMEs)	-	Said Zazai	Jun/2015	-	KITEX 2015
Google Translate-a-Thon		Said Zazai	26/Feb/2016	Google	NITPAA
Internet Fundamentals	Shane Hermosa	Said Zazai	14/Apr/2016	APNIC	IO Global
Introduction to Security Incident Response Teams	Adli Wahid	Said Zazai	2/Jun/2016	APNIC	American University of Afghanistan
VMware Vsphere Install Configure Manage V5 Series [5 days]	Mostafa Sadat	Said Zazai	15/May/2016	-	Codezone
Afghanistan School on Internet Governance (AfSIG) 2017		Said Zazai	27-28/Apr/2017	APSIG, APTLD, ICANN, Wasel Telecom, Liwal Soft	Karwan University

Presentations[edit | edit source]

Issues and challenges of managing country code Top Level Domain Name (ccTLD) in South Asia, at APrIGF 2015 in Macao.
Cybersecurity Incidents In South Asia And Developing Regional Collaboration, at APrIGF 2016 in Taiwan.
Ethics in data mining, at Kabul University.
Impact of Big Data Analytics, directed towards private businesses at Kabul.
Local Language support and local content development, at Afghan School on Internet Governance 2017.

Education[edit | edit source]

Said has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Preston University.^[1] and Masters in Business Administration (MBA) specializing in Information Systems and Organizational Management from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada^[2].