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TEVIE William, NCA, Ghana

​Mr. William Tevie is the Acting Director General of the National Communications Authority. He was appointed by the President in July 2015.

Mr. Tevie has been involved in the IT industry for over 26 years, in areas including software development, IT, Telecoms, management consultancy, Network Routing and leadership training. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in Ghana and played a key role in building the modern Internet in Ghana and West Africa. He is the Tech point of contact for the .GH top level Domain.

He is amongst the first African instructors at Internet Society’s INET Workshops in Canada, Malaysia and in other countries for developing countries to train engineers from the developing world on networks build out in the early 1990s This program later translated to the Africa Network Operators Group (AfNOG) workshop of which he was an instructor in the maiden edition in Cape Town, South Africa.

Over his 26 year involvement in IT he has worked with Internet Society, AFNOG, AFRINIC (the Africa Regional IP Organization) and other international organizations in the networking space. He is a Board member of data protection council and Former chairman of Research Subcommittee of NCA.