23-year-old Senegalese Ndeye Fatou Mboup wants to promote women in ICT

By : Aïsha Moyouzame

Date : lundi, 14 mars 2022 15:54

The 1st Miss Geek in the history of Senegal and 2nd Miss Geek Africa 2018, she proved to be a very talented young woman. She currently holds a management position in a research institute on agricultural and rural policies and intends to train other young women in ICT.

Ndeye Fatou Mboup (pictured) is interested in disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT, and blockchain. She is the current innovation and ICT project/program manager at IPAR (Initiative de prospective agricole et rurale) and is specialized in creating digital solutions based on the SDGs. The serial entrepreneur, as she describes herself, is the CEO of TSG Tech and the co-founder of the startup E-Wanacc.

Ndeye Fatou Mboup has participated in training in Senegal, Rwanda, Spain, Uganda, Germany, and Egypt, as part of the digital entrepreneurship program AFRIMAC or Disrupt BootCamp organized by the YES (Young Entrepreneur School) of Nice-France. A member of FESTIC (Association of Senegalese Women in ICT) or Enablis (Network of SME entrepreneurs in Senegal), where she was a consultant, she has won many national and international competitions since 2017.

Winner of the Challenge of the 1000 entrepreneurs of Africa of the 2020 Africa-France/Sustainable City Summit, Ndeye Fatou Mboup also won the national competition for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), organized by the Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy. She was also elected the first-ever Miss Geek Senegal in 2018 and recently won a bronze medal at the Challenge Innovation Forum in Qatar in November 2021.

Her remarkable career has earned her congratulations from the highest levels of the State. "Warm congratulations to our young compatriot Ndeye Fatou Mboup, from Initiative prospective agricole et rurale, for her bronze medal at the Challenge Innovation Forum in Qatar. I also congratulate the Institut Supérieur de Management of which the winner is a graduate," President Macky Sall tweeted.

Ndeye Fatou Mboup aims to represent women leadership around the world and is committed to working for the professional development of girls and women in ICT.

Aïsha Moyouzame

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