Victor Mbarika

Victor Mbarika is an American professor from Cameroon. He is currently a full and endowed professor of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[2] He is the President, Board of Trustees of the ICT University.[3]

Professor

Victor Mbarika
President, Board of Trustees, ICT University
Personal details
Alma materAuburn University (PhD)
University of Illinois
OccupationFull and Endowed Professor of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Awards
Websitembarika.com

Education

Mbarika earned his Master's degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from The University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in MIS from Auburn University in 2000.

Career and research

Professor Victor Mbarika has been described as being in the forefront of academic research into ICT implementation in Africa, and has provided a theoretically informed framework for understanding ICTs in less developed countries. His work is focused on ICT infrastructure in Africa, and it provides an excellent base from which to begin to understand the contextual differences that dictate information systems research in less advantaged environments. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of The African Journal of Information Systems and senior board member for several academic journals internationally.[4]

He is also the founder of the International Center for Information Technology and Development (ICITD), Southern University, Baton Rouge, which focuses on advancing IT training and development in Sub Saharan Africa especially on e-health, e-education and e-democracy.[5] with numerous research grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, KPMG, Microsoft, Fulbright, Fulbright-MCMC,[6] the Louisiana Board of Regents and several other private and public donors.

Other initiatives

Other initiatives facilitated by him include The ICT for Africa conference series (ICT4 Africa),[7] African Journal of Information Systems (AJIS),[8] The ICT University Foundation[9] and Cameroon Youths for Jesus (CYJ).[10]

Publications

Professor Mbarika has authored over 200 academic publications (books, book chapters, journals articles).[11]

Charity donations

Through the ICT University foundation initiative, he has donated e-learning facilities to some universities in sub-Saharan Africa[12][13][14] which is aimed to advance learning activities for economic and societal development.

Honours and awards

Mbarika is a recipient of three lifetime achievement awards,[15] [16] for his "Outstanding contribution to computer science and telecommunications" and his "Contribution to ICT Research and Education". He has also won the prestigious Fulbright grant to bring in and host scholars from developing nations at the ICITD.

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References
  1. http://www.thedrumnewspaper.info/?tag=victor-mbarika
  2. "Victor W. A. Mbarika | Southern University and A&M College". www.subr.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  3. "President, ICT University". Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  4. http://www.subr.edu/page/dir-victor-w-a-mbarika
  5. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?HistoricalAwards=false&AWD_ID=0644305
  6. http://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/03/155128/three-get-first-fulbright-mcmc-grants
  7. http://www.ictforafrica.org/
  8. http://www.ajisonline.com/
  9. http://www.ictuniversityfoundation.org/
  10. http://www.cyjonline.org/history.html
  11. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5gOntCUAAAAJ
  12. https://guardian.ng/features/us-varsity-donates-e-library-worth-240000-to-ondo-college/
  13. https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2018/10/05/u-s-ict-university-donates-n3m-worth-e-library-facilities-to-kasu/
  14. https://www.africaprimenews.com/2018/06/05/news/nigeria-kaduna-state-university-to-receive-infrastructure-from-ict-university-usa/
  15. http://www.thedrumnewspaper.info/?p=14849/
  16. https://www.jbhe.com/2012/05/two-black-scholars-win-prestigious-awards/
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