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Mohamed Elbashir is a Sudanese expert in Internet governance and infrastructure. He works at Meta and is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He has held key roles at ICANN, Qatar’s regulator, and led the IANA transition process
Mohamed El Bashir is an experienced Internet governance expert who has been active within ICANN since 2001, when he led the re-delegation of Sudan’s country code top-level domain, .SD, now managed by the Sudan Internet Society, an organization he founded.
He served on ICANN’s Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council from 2004 to 2008, and on the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) from 2007 to 2011. He was also a member of ICANN’s Nominating Committee (2011–2012) and co-founded the African Top Level Domains Organization (AfTLD), where he served as vice president.
Currently, he is vice chair of the Arab Internet Governance Multistakeholder Advisory Group and actively contributes to domain name and Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) policy work. Mohamed is also a founding member and current board member of the Qatar Internet Society chapter, and the founding president of the Sudan Internet Society.
He has been involved in global Internet governance forums, including the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), regularly participating as a panelist and organizer. Since 2008, he has worked with ictQATAR (Qatar’s Supreme Council of ICT), where he manages technical affairs related to numbering, Internet domains, and broadband infrastructure, and led the establishment of Qatar’s ccTLD registry and the launch of the country’s Arabic domain.
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