Inné, Anne-Rachel

Anne-Rachel Inné is an Internet and digital transformation veteran and established community giver. She is the DG of the National Information Society Agency (ANSI in French), which mission is to design,

supervise, coordinate and evaluate all actions relating to the development of IT and New Information Technologies in the public and semi-public sectors at both national and regional levels.

 Anne-Rachel has a rare combination of skills and strategic vision having been an entrepreneur and builder of projects using ICTs in the 90s in Africa and national policies about Internet in most African

countries. She also contributed to building up ICANN, the organization in the Los Angeles office where she worked for 12 years in several decision making positions. She worked for two Regional Internet

Registries (RIRs) as the COO of AFRINIC and the Senior VP Government Affairs at ARIN. Her last job before joining ANSI was at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) where she was serving as

Regional Director for Africa, liaison to the African Union and UNECA, working towards achieving the ITU’s commitment to connecting the region and to maintain direct contact with national authorities,

regional telecommunication organizations and other key stakeholders. She was featured as ICT Expert in the ILO/IOM book for the AUC in 2011: African Women at the Service

of the Union and a recipient of several awards for her demonstrated immense commitment and continued engagement with African communities.

She is the Chair or member of the Board of several NGOs that work in Digital Skills, Diplomacy in the digital age, African languages and ICTs and is the initiator/participant to several other initiatives around

education and Internet/ICTs for Africa, by Africans. She is the Regional Lead at the Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (https://thegide.org)