Nazir Peroz (born 1955 in Kabul) is a German/Afghan computer scientist whose research focus is on IT in Afghanistan and other developing countries.
Background He decided to study in Berlin, Germany in 1977.
In 1999, Peroz founded the Zentrum für internationale und interkulturelle Kommunikation (ZiiK) at his faculty, which he has headed since 2000. In this capacity, he has been actively involved in the reconstruction of his home country Afghanistan since 2001.Education means future - academic development in Afghanistan DAAD Report; Called June 8, 2020 Between 2003 and 2014, he established five IT centers at the universities Kabul University, Herat, Nangarhar, Balkh and Kandahar. In 2007, he established a master program in computer science for Afghan lecturers at the TU Berlin and founded an IT competence center in Kabul (ITCC Afghanistan).
Peroz is an expert at the Department of Computer Science and Society of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI e. V.),Steering Committee of the Department of Informatics and Society of the GI e.V.; recalled on June 15, 2020 from 1996 to 2010 there as speaker of the department "Informatics and Third World" (today "Informatics and Social Development"). From 1996 to 2006 he was a member of the Development Planning Department of the TU Berlin, since 2002 he was the DAAD Coordinator for Information Technology and Computer Science for Afghanistan, since 2003 Advisor to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education, since 2017 "Brain City Berlin Ambassador".Brain City Berlin Ambassador: Dr. Nazir Peroz; recalled June 8, 2020
Honors and awards 2012: Honorary Professor of the University of HeratPress release of the TU Berlin; Retrieved June 8, 2020 2015: Prize of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceFaculty Prize for Exceptional Commitment to Nazir Peroz and the ZiiK Team, TU Berlin website; Retrieved June 8, 2020 2016: Sayed Djamal ad-Din Afghani Medal, highest state award in the field of science in AfghanistanAnnouncement of the TU Berlin on Facebook; Retrieved June 8, 2020
Publications (selection) Mahr, B., Peroz, N.: Establishing Academic Structures in Computer Science at Herat University, IKO-Verlag 2006, Peroz, N.: Framework for a Functional IT Supply in Higher Education in Afghanistan, LIT-Verlag 2009, Peroz, N.: Strategieentwicklung für bestimmte Entwicklungsländer im Bereich Informationstechnologie book on demand, Peroz, N.: Digitale Revolution? Soziale Netzwerke in Nordafrika In: Wissenschaft & Frieden 2011-4, Darmstadt, page 31-32 Peroz, N.: Establishing IT Structures at Kabul University IKO Publishing House 2013,
Memberships (selection) Department of Computer Science and Society of Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
References
External links entries for Nazir Peroz in the search engine Google Scholar. Website of the IT Center of Kabul University, ITCK Project overview of the ZiiK of the TU Berlin. Website of the IT Competence Center Afghanistan (ITCC Afghanistan). Expedition Heimat - A Journey with Nazir Peroz through Afghanistan on behalf of the German Foreign Office, carried out by Deutsche Welle, 2017. Website of the Center for International and Intercultural Communication (ZiiK) of the TU Berlin.