H.E. Dr. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE
After obtaining her Baccalaureate in Scientific Series (Bac E) in 2000 at the Lycée Technique d’Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Mrs. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE continued her studies at the Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique (Burkina Faso) where she obtained her Diploma in Computer Engineering / Programmer Analyst Option in 2003, then the Diploma in Computer Design Engineering in 2006. After a brief professional stopover, Mrs. ZERBO/SABANE returned to training after obtaining an enrollment at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Canada from where she obtained a PhD in Computer Engineering in 2015.
Having become a Doctor of Engineering in Computer Science, Ms. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE is back in Faso where she joined Joseph Ki-ZERBO University in 2017 as a Lecturer-Researcher in Computer Science. Since then, Doctor ZERBO/SABANE has been strongly committed to the training and supervision of students. She is co-initiator and deputy coordinator of the university digital incubator Incub@UO which supports the maturation of students’ startup projects.
Dr. ZERBO/SABANE has a rich professional career, having held various positions of responsibility in both public and private administration.
Indeed, she was Security Manager at ZAIN (now Orange Burkina), responsible for the design, implementation and monitoring of IT security policies and procedures, raising employee awareness of IT security from June 2008 to July 2009, then Programmer Analyst at SONABEL from January to April 2008, and IT manager at the Diplomatic and International Relations Institute (IDRI) from 2006 to 2007. Doctor ZERBO/SABANE was from January 2016 to October 2017, Head of Training and Projects at the AvePLUS Training and Incubation Center.
Within the public administration, from 2018 to 2021, she was Technical Secretary, responsible for coordinating the work of experts in charge of strategic analyses and studies on digital technology at the Ministry in charge of Digital Transition. Since 2020, she has been Head of the “Ecosystem and Digital Transformation” budget program, responsible for monitoring and coordinating national-scale projects on the digital transition, and since April 2021, Director General of the National Agency for the Promotion of Information and Communication Technologies (ANPTIC). In this capacity, Ms. ZERBO/SABANE played a central role in the coordination of major structuring projects in the sector, including the e-Burkina project, the ICT Development Support Project (PADTIC) and the single identification project for regional integration and inclusion in West Africa (WURI).
Ms. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE is also involved in professional and scientific associations. She is a member of IEEE Burkina (International Learned Society for Research in Electronic and Computer Systems) and RECIF (Network of Computer Science Teachers and Researchers of Burkina Faso).
An expert in the maturation of digital innovation projects and digital transformation (strategic analyses and studies), Ms. Aminata ZERBO/SABANE, who has just been appointed Minister of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications, is no stranger to the digital ecosystem of Burkina Faso.
