Eric Osiakwan

Eric Osiakwan is the Executive Secretary for both the African Internet Service Providers Association and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association. He is also a visiting fellow and scholar at the Stanford University and Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program. He is a consultant to the World Bank's Information for Development Program on Open Access for Africa; project co-coordinator for UC Berkeley's TIER Group in Ghana; and affiliate of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Osiakwan was invited by the Royal African Society to contributed ideas to Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa. He is an associate of Spintrack AB, Balancing Act and African Analysis CC. He is also a director of Internet Research, InHand Ltd. and PenPlusBytes. He co-founded the Ghana New Ventures Competition and is a member of a number of professional bodies, including the Internet Society, Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers, and Ghana Institute of Information Technology. He co-authored The Internet in Ghana with the Mosaic group, using the GDI methodology, and co-authored the Ghana chapter of Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion.