Mohamed Ibrahim, former Somali minister of telecommunication, is currently a researcher at Swinburne University, Melbourne. Mohamed has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry, progressing from programmer and system analyst to CIO level. His career spans Australia’s superannuation and higher education sectors, Papua New Guinea’s Elcom, Kuwait Oil Company, Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE, and Yeel-Pacific. He graduated from Monash, Deakin, Swinburne, and Melbourne Universities, where he studied Economics, Computer Science, an MBA, and International Law, respectively. Mohamed is the founder of the Somali branch of the Internet Society (ISOC). He contributes to Somalia’s online and digital presence via som-isoc.org, ayuub.org, and Somalia.substack.com.