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Botan Mahmoud Osman is the Head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Department of Information Technology, he was appointed to establish the department and hold the position in early 2007.
Mr. Osman holds an MBA and a BSC in Software Engineering from Manchester University and has over 12 years of experience in IT and Management. He has occupied a number of senior management positions in Information Technology and Financial companies in the United Kingdom, primarily focusing on operations across Europe and the Middle East.
Since his appointment in 2007 he has founded and developed the KRG Department of IT from the ground up, which has lead on a number of very important initiatives; including the establishment of a state of the art Regional IT Academy, the KRG Biometric Electronic ID Card System and the development of the KRG IT Strategy 2011-2016. The past three years has seen significant progress in the field of Information Technology within the Kurdistan Region, and the KRG Department of IT has been instrumental in leading this progress.
- Location:
- Iraq, Erbil
- Current organization:
- Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq
- Past organizations:
- KRG Department of Information Technology
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- Business Management, Information Technology, Government, Transparency Activism, Marketing, Web & Internet, Technology & Business Change
- I am:
- Activist, Business leader, Consultant, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Marketer, Policy maker, Public servant, Technologist
- Languages:
- English, Kurdish, Arabic
- My website links:
- KRG Department of IT, Kurdistan Regional Government
- Universities:
- University of Manchester - UK, Manchester Business School
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