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Raphael Chukwujekwu


Gender and Age:		Male, 35
Location:		Abuja, Abuja Capital Territory
Country of Residence:		Nigeria
Country of Birth:		Nigeria
Languages:		English , Igbo



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About Me

Chukwujekwu Junior C. Raphael is a global citizen, Nigerian by birth, a management economist by training, a consultant, an associate pastor and a youth leader. He is actively involved in developmental work with young people with focus on leadership, capacity building, poverty reduction and ICT as a tool for sustainable development with over 8 years of experience.

He is single, with passions for community and youth development, ICT4D initiatives, Movies, cooking, traveling, meeting people and ping-pong.

He has presented papers on ICT4D in Education, the Role of Youth in Leadership Management, Act of Public Speaking, the Five Questions of Life and Guide to Inner Peace to mention but a few in various workshops, conferences and seminars.

He is a visionary leader and believes in contributing to the development of strategies for performance in every organization he finds himself. He is hard working, intelligent, innovative, adaptive, confident, highly motivated, quite articulate and excellent team player who possesses an extensive knowledge in business information system as well as scientific intuitions that helps him in meeting challenges.

A likeable and highly dependable, challenge driven, creative thinker with a relaxed style to achieving set goals in defined terms, purpose and time. He is endowed intellectually and mentally to work with minimum supervision, has flares for learning new things to boost his knowledge and readily impact others with his wealth of knowledge. He takes initiatives readily, possesses a highly focused, energetic, high moral virtues and integrity.

His passion for ICT4D birth several projects and is currently developing a national project on ICT4D which will reduce poverty, create wealth and increase economic growth and sustainable social development.

His activities in ICT4D and social developmental works have revolved around Youngstars foundation and Chredac. Youngstars Foundation International is a youth led initiatives while Chredac is an ICT4D based NGO where he design and implement ICT initiatives with a vision of empowering people…redefining the society and a passion, mission and commitment to fight poverty in a unique, innovative, professional and self sustaining by imparting knowledge ands skills to empower youths and women to bridging the urban – rural digital divide thereby achieving our social objectives. The impacts have been tremendous.

He is fully involved in the Nigerian Youth Consultations (NYC) process for the UN WSIS process, the Nigerian prepcom input and the WSIS Youth Caucus input to WSIS process. He coordinated the policy train/youth consultative session of the WSIS in Abuja 2005 and contributed to the African Youth ICT4D Network Action Plan in WSIS Accra 2005.

He was invited to attend the youth assembly at the 60th anniversary of the United Nations August 1st – August 10th 2005 by the Friendship Ambassador Foundation, New York USA.

He is presently the African Representative of Information Technology for Youth Initiatives (IT4YI) and the World Youth Peace Summit (WYPS) since January 2006, working towards hosting the WYPSummit and IT4YI in Nigeria.