It has been almost three years that I know Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu. We first meet in fall 2006 because we took the same class, IST501. And later we became officemates, the desk no.2 and no.3 in the room 307G. Amazingly, we later found that we are sharing the same research interest which is about constructing ICT policies for developing countries. Besides, he is also interested in NGO/UN work which is pretty disaster relief. With this regard, we quite have a lot of things in common, so to speak.
As Louis-Marie’s research interest lies in ICT policy and NGO relief, he has several conference papers which were internationally published such as Information and Internet Policy, 17th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, International ISCRAM Conference, etc. Now, he endeavors to have his research papers which are about ICT for development and ICT in Africa published in African Journal for Information Systems.
As I mentioned above, we have a lot commons in terms of research interests. On top of that, Louis-Marie is very polite and mature in person. No only can we talk about work, but also life. I can talk with him with any topics; it is not necessary to professionally break the ice with him. And I feel very comfortable talking with him.
There two terminology that people usually use interchangeably: friend and colleague. Personally, I would consider Louis-Marie as friend more than colleague since he has never expected a productive relationship from anyone.
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