🇧🇫 DAY 1 | The Cybastion team and our tech partners are in Ouagadougou for the 20th edition of Burkina Faso Digital Week!
Today, we kicked off our Digital Week engagement with a media tour of the American Tech Hub exhibit area. The American Tech Hub is an immersive and interactive exhibition space designed to engage the public around the pillars of Cybastion's Digital Fast Track: digital solutions, cybersecurity, infrastructure solutions, education and training.
U.S. Ambassador Joann M. Lockard, Ambassador to Burkina Faso, joined Cybastion and its American partners for a guided tour of each area of ​​the American Tech Hub.
US and local partners includePaul Mongane, Entrust; Boutaleb Joutei Faouz, Availability Institute; Tarik Bahannis, Availability Institute; Hamza Atti, Vertiv, Charles Mugisha, Smarteo; and local partnerGilles Kounou, Open SI.
Cybastion LeadershipAndré Biyong, Director of Operations andArmand Tchokokam, Executive Vice President and Global CFO, met with journalists for a high-level press conference on key advances in the company's key digital transformation projects that advance the Burkinabe government's bold vision for digital sovereignty. Ibrahim Younoussi is general manager of Cybastion’s office in Burkina Faso.
Starting November 19, the Africa DigiEmpower training program, a partnership between Cybastion, Cisco and the government of Burkina Faso, will equip Burkinabe youth and women with advanced digital skills and build a digital workforce, culminating in a certification ceremony on Friday.
Organized from November 18 to 21, Digital Week brings together African and global leaders from the technological, public, academic and financial sectors under the theme “AI at the heart of digital transformation”.
