Koffi M Kouakou is a Long Now futurist, author, storyteller and social commentator. He is a senior lecturer on scenario planning at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) at Wits University, Johannesburg, SA.

Koffi Kouakou serves as an advisory board member of Convergence journal, a leading publication on business technology, telecommunications convergence, digital divide and e-commerce. He is a board member of I4I, a Denver based information technology institute. He served as the co-Director of the CSIR Virtual Reality Solutions in Pretoria, South Africa. He also served as the co-ordinator of the Program on Environment Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the World Bank. He helped facilitate discussion sessions in South Africa on the World Bank-led 1998 Global Knowledge conference in Canada.

He specialises in information communications technologies and telecommunications adapted to environmental issues in emerging countries, with focus on Africa. As such, he serves on the board on Innovative Resources Management in Washington, DC, a non-governmental institution that addresses novel models for resources management, allocations and the implications of new collaborative technologies for community development.

He is a social critic on emerging technologies, the digital divide, new media and their implications on the new social order in Africa. He has been a science and contributing writer to the award winning newspaper Mail & Guardian and the influential business technology magazines Intelligence and Brainstorm in South Africa and “Global Thinking” magazine of the Foreign Policy Centre in London, of which UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair is the patron. He is a correspondent of the New African, a London-based monthly magazine on African affairs. MSc in Information and communications sciences; MA in Natural resources management, both at Ball State University; Executive management program in environment sustainable development planning, Duke University.

He has written about the role of strategic planning, strategic government communications, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), technology and higher education in Africa, and the digital divide. He is co-author of the book AfricaDotEdu: IT Opportunities and Higher Education in Africa.