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Abdulrahman Abotaleb, is a consultant at Internews network and the Editor-in-chief at Yemen science network. He was the ICT director in Yemen News Agency (SABA) , the Vice President of Internet Society Yemen Chapter (ISOC-Yemen) and a consultant for the digital media in Yemen General Corporation for Radio & TV from. He was also a trainer in New Horizon institute for technology and was a lecturer in Sana’a community college. Abotaleb holds a Master degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor degree in Computer engineering. He is a Microsoft certified and Cisco certified expert. He has +800 hours of training courses in technology, media, management and advocacy. Abotaleb is a member of world Internet Society (ISOC) Chapters Advisory Council, member of ICANN’s At-Large Organization (APRALO), member of Arab Multistakeholder Advisors Group for Internet Governance (AMAG), member of ESCWA’s experts community of technology and innovation, member of Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in the Arab World (ANSA), member of Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA), member of Yemen Media Union (YMU), member of World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), founding member of Association of Investigative journalists in Yemen (TAQASSI), founding member of Yemen Information Technology Society, member of Yemeni's Engineer's Union.On the non-technical side, Abotaleb has worked as a freelance investigative journalist, scientific writer and correspondent of Arabic Agency for Science News, the E-Media assistant for the United Nation UNOPS office in Sanaa, and a translator in Yemen Center for Strategic and Consulting Studies (YCSCS) think tank as well as Yemen Today newspaper.