Augustin Andriamananoro

Augustin Andriamananoro
Born	14 August 1968 Antananarivo, Madagascar
Nationality	Madagascan

Augustin Andriamananoro (born 14 August 1968 in Antananarivo, Madagascar) is a consultant in information and communications technology and a politician.

Consultant

In 1998, Andriamananoro began to gain experience in software engineering and information technologies while in France. Afterwards, he engaged in numerous projects in the Caribbean and Indian Oceans. He was also the project director of Société M & Associés in Guadeloupe in 2002, as well as the General Manager of the Osmosis Business Solutions O.I. group in Antananarivo until 2008. Andriamananoro continues to serve as the General Director to the Malagasy Authority Office for the Study and Regulation of Telecommunications for Madagascar OMERT.^[1]

Andriamananoro was certified by the Galilee Institute of Management in Israël,^[2] in his capacity as ICT Senior Manager, he was also certified by EMPIM.^[3] He received his MBA in Telecommunication at the University of Houston in November 2014.

Political office

In November 2009, as Minister of Telecommunications, he had the power devolved from the President of Madagascar to enable the trunk routes on fibre optic cable for the whole of East Africa, a project known as Project Lion. This would link East Africa to East Asia and Europe with submarine internet fibre-optic cables, and domestically, in a project known in both English and French as Madagascar Backbone or Malagasy Backbone, was to be built by Orange,^[4] and France Télécom.

In March 2010, TELMA, the monopoly telecoms operator in Madagascar at that time, laid another submarine cable in the Projet du Consortium Eassy reliant Madagascar avec le continent Africain et le reste du monde ("Consortium Project to relay Madagascar to the African continent and the wider world").^[5][6]

Andriamananoro ensured third-party access by other telecommunications and infrastructure operators, and established licenses for 3G Internet service, which now cover the entire country of Madagascar. With over 6,000 km (3,700 mi) of fibre-optic cable, Madagascar became the first country in Africa to be "all fibre", and is the best country in Africa for its telecommunications infrastructure.

In March 2009, he became Ministre de la Communication, then Ministre des Télécommunications, Postes et de Nouvelles Technologies from March 2009 until May 2010^[7] and Président de la Société Nationale des Participations (SONAPAR)^[8] feom 10 December 2010 to December 2014.

During this time he was the official Directeur Général de l’Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications de Madagascar ("Director-General of the Office of Regulation of Madagascan Telecommunications, OMERT: roughly equivalent to Ofcom in the United Kingdom or the U.S. Federal Communications Commission). He relieved his post in May 2014.

Political Advisor

Andriamananoro started his interest in politics with his participation in the battle for the Decolonisation of Madagascar.

He was the Conseilleur Technique de la Ville. (Roughly, Borough surveyor).

In 2007, he became vice-president of the Parti TGV,^[9] thence Conseiller Spécial du Président de la Transition, roughly "Minister of Supervision of Transition", from the government of Andry Nirina Rajoelina, Madagascar's head of state in 2009.

In November 2010, Andriamananoro was promoted to be Directeur des Campagnes pour le Referendum constitutionnel pour la Quatrième République à Madagascar ("Campaign Director for the Constitutional Referendum for the Fourth Republic of Madagascar). With universal suffrage, he returned more than 75% of the popular vote.

In July 2013, he became one of the Leaders Founder Politic of MAPAR,^[10] a splitter group founded by Andry Rajoelina, who had the majority in the House of Legislature since 20 December 2013: in his capacity of being the state's Vice Président, and specifically^[11] in charge of Antananarivo province.

References

1. "ARTEC | Accueil". Omert.mg. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
2. "Galilee International Management Institute - Home". Galilcol.ac.il. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
3. "Texas U.S.A. Augustin Andriamananoro Ă la NASA". Madagate.com. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
4. "Internet Broadband | Orange Madagascar" (in French). Orange.mg. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
5. "Madagascar Backbone: TELMA ne perd pas le Nord avec 20 millions de dollars" (in French). Andriamananoro.net. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
6. "Le Backbone National Telma: Plus de 3000km fibre optic des 2009" (PDF). telma,mg (in French). April 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
7. "Le ministre Augustin Andriamananoro annonce les couleurs de sa politique de relance du secteur des télécommunications à Madagascar" (in French). Balancingact-africa.com. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
8. "SOciété NAtionale de PARticipations &#124" (in French). Sonapar.mg. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
9. "| Augustin AndriamananoroÂ". Jeuneafrique.com. 6 January 2015. En juin 2010, un prĂŠsident sera ĂŠlu" &#124
10. "EMISSION SPECIAL DU 22 JANVIER 2015 Augustin ANDRIAMANANORO". YouTube.com. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.Template:Date=June 2015
11. L'Hebdo de Madagascar, hebdomadaire d'information et d'analyse. Lhebdomada.com http://www.lhebdomada.com/index.php?p=display&id=5353. Retrieved 6 June 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)