Shope-Mafole, Lyndall
Pretoria,
Chairperson, Presidential National Commission on Information Society and
Development, South Africa
Shope-Mafole
has held numerous posts on world telecoms bodies, including: member of the
restructuring implementation team on the Pan-African Telecommunications Union
and member of the Group of Experts on the common Telecommunications Policy
Framework for the Southern African Development Community, as well as being
vice-chair of the1998/99 Session of the Council of the ITU in 1998. The
following year she chaired the 1999/2000 Session of Council of the ITU and the
Working Group on ITU Reform. In the same year she was vice-chair of the Penang
Working Party on the Privatisation of Intelsat, as well as vice-chair of the
22nd Congress of the UPU, and a member of High Level Group on the future
development of the UPU. Lyndall
Shope-Mafole is currently Chairperson of the National Presidential Commission on
Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development, South
Africa.