Wala Mohammed

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1 year 11 months

First name

Wala

Last name

Mohammed

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Independent

Country

Sudan

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Wala is highly experienced in IT Service Delivery Management and has managed IT projects within the INGOs, government, telecom, and banking secotrs.
She has been selected to be one of the young female leaders in the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) RLC East Africa in Kenya. Wala also has become part of the Institute fur Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) network in Germany, where she has completed three months internship at the German Digital Opportunities Foundation that focuses on building educational platforms that aim to advance the digital skills of women, children, disadvantaged youth, and senior citizens.
She has developed research skills and published a couple of papers related to the ICT for development, including "Sudan’s ICT Illiteracy Amid COVID-19 Lockdown" in 500 words magazine, "COVID-19 exposes the damage of the regime’s empowerment policy on ICTs and the impact of US sanctions against Sudan" at African Internet Rights Organization. Wala is currently leading a research on Women Digital Rights in Sudan: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities with the Association for Progressive Communication.