AfICTA Award Winner
Waddah Fadul is an award-winning technology and digital strategy consultant who led multiple teams in MENA to achieve the “Best VAD” and “Best DC Technology Provider” awards by ‘The Reseller” and other prominent industry magazines. In 2017, Cisco Systems, the leading networking and technology provider, selected Waddah as “Cisco Champion” for his efforts in extending innovative data center consulting services and for adding digital and social value to Cisco’s brand in the region.
Waddah is the founder and president of Institute of Tomorrow, an East African think tank that works in the top-ranked challenges in the region in health, education, energy, peace and food logistics and security. The Institute has been selected by the Lauder Institute in the University of Pennsylvania as one of top new think tanks in the world for the year 2016. Waddah is the co-founder of “Karrib”; the leading fact-checking online tool that uses news weight-assigning and crowd fact-checking to filter the large amount of fake news during the ongoing Sudanese uprising 2018-2019. Karrib became an essential tool for many activists and protestors to verify news and helped partially in controlling the ever-increasing political tension in the country.
In 2017 Waddah was nominated for the Desmond Tutu Fellowship which recognizes the Future African Leaders. In early 2018, he received the prestigious Martha Rivers Ingram Leadership Award which recognizes outstanding performance of individuals who demonstrate leadership, commitment, integrity and philanthropy.
Waddah is the chief architect for the technology solution “PRAAS” which uses the IOT and data analytics to predict and stop the conflicts between farmers and herders in Africa, in 2018 the OpenIdeo platform and GHR Foundation selected PRAAS as one of top 55 projects in the world. In the same year; Waddah was also nominated for the MIPAD Award for the 100 Most Influential People of African Descent under 40. In 2019, Waddah joined the Global Advisory Council of the leading management magazine “Harvard Business Review”.
Waddah holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Khartoum University, a master’s degree in Strategy from Heriot-Watt University and a certificate in Business Analytics from Harvard Business school. he is a certified Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute in the United States, Waddah writes on digital transformation trends and strategies in “The Review” and couple of local prints and features on BBC Arabic, Al Fanar and other media platforms.