{"id":29851,"date":"2021-11-29T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/?post_type=person&#038;p=29851"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:09:34","slug":"aristide-touwindsida-zongo","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/person\/aristide-touwindsida-zongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristide Touwindsida Zongo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I felt in love with new technologies in 2008 at my secondary school. Despite a legal background (Master in\u2013Public Law); I worked as a freelance, employee and entrepreneur (Managing Director of Digi-Clink, a web agency based in Burkina) for diverse entities until 2018 in the digital marketing and communication domain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mid 2018, I founded Yamba Digital Hub aimed at accompanying very small\/informal businesses in accelerating their growth through digital marketing and communications (since 2018, we accompanied more than 100 small businesses with low costs\/ free trainings and digital marketing services). I also act as a tutor for students in diverse IT universities seeking to defend their dissertations for their Bachelor and Master degrees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Currently, I am also working for the United Nations Department of Global Communications mainly responsible for digital platforms (website and social media) promotion.<\/p>\n<p>As a digital entrepreneur I have been awarded by diverse entities and invited to a wide range of seminars and conferences to represent Burkina Faso:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2018; by the company House of Burkina Faso and the National Telecommunications Office for my project Digi-Clink aimed at providing qualitative digital marketing and communication services to Burkinabe<\/li>\n<li>In 2018 as the Managing Director of Digi-Clink, we won the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Prize in the Security Category on the national ICT contest called Genie TIC. The solution was a mobile app called SOS DANGER<\/li>\n<li>As the founder of Yamba Digital Hub, we have been selected as a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur in 2019<\/li>\n<li>Enterprise of Peace Scholar awarded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for our Yamba Digital Hub initiative aiming at accompanying small \/informal businesses in a country facing violent extremism.<\/li>\n<li>Peace Ambassador by the One Young World for our effort in enabling economic growth in a context of Terrorism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am also currently pursuing an MBA -Management of Information Systems at the University of Zambia with a dissertation focused on how developing countries can benefit from current digital revolution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ensuring that Burkina Faso is represented in major ICT instances is a commitment for me because I believe that ICT can really help us accelerate our development and meet the 2030 Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29848,"template":"","class_list":["post-29851","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aristide Touwindsida Zongo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/person\/aristide-touwindsida-zongo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aristide Touwindsida Zongo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I felt in love with new technologies in 2008 at my secondary school. 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