{"id":881,"date":"2025-11-16T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siscim.intic.gov.mz\/?p=881"},"modified":"2025-11-16T22:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:24:39","slug":"eric-akumiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siscim.intic.gov.mz\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Eric Akumiah"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"881\" class=\"elementor elementor-881\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33f60fa0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"33f60fa0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a7d61c5 elementor-position-left elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"2a7d61c5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/siscim.intic.gov.mz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eric-Akumiah-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-807\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Eric Akumiah<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">FIRST (Ghana)\u200b <br><br>\nEric Akumiah is a Chevening Scholar with a Master\u2019s in Communications Manage-ment (widely regarded as the MBA for the telecoms industry) from Strathclyde Busi-ness School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He brings extensive experience in IT infrastructure, digital transformation, and cybersecurity, with a career spanning more than two decades across Africa and beyond.<br><br>\nHe played a pivotal role in Ghana\u2019s national ICT development, supporting the rollout of LTE and fibre optic infrastructure, as well as data centre systems under the World Bank\u2013funded E-Ghana and E-Transform projects.<br><br>\nBetween 2012 and 2016, Eric also served as Ghana\u2019s national focal point for cyber-security. In this capacity, he led the development of Ghana\u2019s first National Cybersecu-rity Policy and Strategy (2016) and established the country\u2019s national Computer Se-curity Incident Response Team (CERT-GH) in 2014, which he managed for three years.<br><br>\nCurrently, Eric serves as Africa Regional Liaison for FIRST.org, under the UK For-eign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office\u2019s (FCDO) funded FIRST Africa Regional Liaison initiative. In this role, he supports national computer security and incident re-sponse teams (CSIRT) across Africa in developing and strengthening cybersecurity incident response and capacity-building programs.<br><br>\nHe is also the co-founder and Director of the Africa Cybersecurity and Digital Rights Organisation (ACDRO), a regional initiative dedicated to advancing cybersecurity resilience and safeguarding digital rights across the continent.\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Akumiah FIRST (Ghana)\u200b Eric Akumiah is a Chevening Scholar with a Master\u2019s in Communications Manage-ment (widely regarded as the MBA for the telecoms industry) from Strathclyde Busi-ness School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 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