Researcher and Digital Innovator

Architecting
Digital Resilience.

I help organizations transition from fragmented legacy environments to resilient, data-driven operating models.

Bridging the gap between Executive Strategy and Advanced Technology.

Alvin Forteta

Strategic Value Proposition

I don't just manage IT; I engineer organizational viability. Here is the specific value I bring to the executive table.

Executive Impact

Resource Optimization

Proven track record of cutting annual internet expenditure by 50% while expanding network capacity by over 200% through strategic negotiation.

Capital Acquisition

Successfully secured multi-million Naira technology funding to facilitate computing hubs, improving institutional research capacity and connectivity.

Digital Governance

Expertise in aligning technology strategy with core business priorities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and strengthening organizational memory.

Technical Arsenal

Cloud & Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure
AWS
Oracle OCI
Windows/Linux Servers
Virtualization (VMWare)
Data Science & AI
Machine Learning
LLMs & RAG
Power BI / Tableau
Python & R
Big Data (Hadoop)
Enterprise Systems
Oracle / MSSQL / MySQL
ERP Administration
Cybersecurity Protocols

Research Programme

Most governance failures are not failures of will. They are failures of memory — specifically, the kind of forgetting that gets built into digital infrastructure before anyone thinks to question it. The Theory of Infrastructural Forgetting (TIF) is my answer to that problem. It proposes that silence in sociotechnical systems is not an absence but a product — structurally manufactured, historically layered, and remarkably difficult to see from inside the system doing the forgetting. DEJM, RVSM, and the CVD Index grew out of this proposition. They are not companion papers. They are tools for a different kind of institutional autopsy — one conducted on systems that are still running.

Core Theory Theory of Infrastructural Forgetting TIF
Applied Expressions DEJM  ·  RVSM Governance Instruments
Measurement Instrument Colonial Variety Deficit Index CVD Index
Featured Research
Manara Centre — Lights of Coexistence, Abu Dhabi · June 2026

Tacit Weaponization of Historical Narratives

Manara Lights of Coexistence  ·  American University of Nigeria

The framework operationalises epistemic justice through the Tacit Score Index (TSI) — a metric that detects how historically accurate narratives are quietly weaponized inside trusted digital micro-publics such as WhatsApp and Telegram groups. The Digital Epistemic Justice Monitor (DEJM) is the live governance platform built to surface these dynamics, visualise narrative asymmetry, and equip communities with the evidence to reflect, contest, and rebalance — without suppressing any voice. Research site: Mubi North, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

In collaboration with Mr. Kamal Bakari, Mr. Joseph Ingio, Mr. Muhammad Bello, and Dr. Zainab Usman — American University of Nigeria

Programme Outputs
Governance Platform

Digital Epistemic Justice Monitor

A real-time governance instrument that detects and visualises narrative asymmetry in community digital spaces, operationalising the Tacit Score Index (TSI = Cw × Ts × Ar). Field site: Mubi North, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

Manara Centre — Lights of Coexistence, Abu Dhabi · June 2026
Framework

Rethinking Institutional Memory

Introducing the Adaptive Viable System Model (AVSM), which reconceives institutional memory as active infrastructure — deploying System D to filter paradigm-threatening anomalies and System R for performative regeneration to restore organisational viability.

AUN International Conference 2025
Taxonomy

The Four Faces of Forgetting

A diagnostic lens for memory loss in digital governance: Procedural, Relational, Epistemic, and Structural forgetting in sociotechnical systems — the empirical groundwork for TIF.

AUN International Conference 2025
Case Study

Disruption-Aware Governance

Rethinking digital governance through disruption awareness and resilience memory: investigating LMS implementations in developing economies as sites of institutional forgetting.

MoodleMoot Africa 2025

Let's Connect.

Available for executive roles, consulting on digital governance, or academic collaboration.

alvin@forteta.ng
+234-913-938-0175
Digital River Technologies Ltd.
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