Anael Elikana Sam received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia.,He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Computation Communication Sciences and Engineering (CoCSE), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST). He is also the Founding Center Leader of the Center of Excellence for ICT in East Africa (CENIT@EA). Previously, he was a Senior System Test Engineer with the Nokia Siemens Networks Research and Development Department, from 2010 to 2012. He was also a System Test Engineer with Research and Development of Logica Slovakia s.r.o., a subsidiary of Logica Plc., from 2007 to 2010. He was with Siemens Program and System Engineering (PSE) s.r.o., Slovakia, from 2004 to 2007. He was also a Software Expert with Alcatel Lucent, Slovakia, from 2000 to 2003. His research interests include eHealth, radio, multimedia, mobile and wireless communication systems, electronics and telecommunication engineering, software quality assurance engineering, and mobile network planning and optimization. He has been the author and coauthor of more than 80 scientific publications Prof. Sam led the Tanzania Health Information Mediator a project on developing a middleware to facilitate health data exchange between the several information systems in use by the Tanzania Ministry of Health in 2021.