Muhammad Aimal Marjan

Aimal Marjan is National IT Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Communications, Afghanistan, where he consults on areas such as ISP licensing, Internet exchanges, country domain and general capacity-building issues in the ministry. Prior to joining the ministry, he served as IT Advisor to the Director of the Afghan Assistance Coordination Authority. He was also the project manager of GDLN, a World Bank project, which provided eight government offices with Internet and intranet facilities. He is the founder and chairman of the Afghan Computer Science Association, which was founded in 1999. Marjan was Technical and Academic Advisor of the Computer Science Department of the Islamic University for Science and Technology (IUST), Jalalabad, Afghanistan. His main achivements at IUST include the establishment of the Computer Science Department, the design of the curriculum and student laboratory, conduct of the first entry test and intensive training of staff of the university on basic computer topics. He remains very close to the academe; he was a visiting faculty member of the Economic Department of IIUI and is now a visiting faculty member of the Computer Science Department of Kabul University.