Calvain R. NANGUE is a passionate ICT Education specialist who joined the ambitious Smart Africa Alliance Partnership to support the Skills Development and Capacity Building Initiatives. From a career as a University Lecturer at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Calvain led the Cisco Networking Academy Program development in the Francophone region of Africa for about 10 years, networking, onboarding, and managing a network of over 300 public and private Higher Education Institutions within the global Cisco NetAcad ecosystem.
Joining the Smart Africa Alliance, Calvain will contribute to the development of the Smart Africa Digital Academy program, which objectives to federate digital skills development initiatives on the continent, strategically supports his passion for technology-based skills and knowledge transfer. Calvain is a member of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals of South Africa and devotes his spare time to community services.