[afnog] PRESS RELEASE : GHANA’S MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION INAUGURATES GHANA NETWORK OPERATORS’ GROUP(ghNOG)

[Eric Akumiah]

For Immediate Release

Cape Coast, Ghana - On
Friday, July 31 2009 Honorable Haruna Idrissu, Minister of Communication will
officially inaugurate the Ghana Network Operators’ Group (ghNOG).  The Ghana Network Operators’ Group is a forum
for sharing technical information amongst technical operators of Internet
services in Ghana. 
 
The inauguration comes off
after the Internet Society Ghana Chapter (ISOC Ghana) in partnership with Internet
Society, Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and Africa Network Operators’
Group (AfNOG) organises its first ‘AfNOG Track E0 Localization’ Unix Systems
Administration Workshop at the University of in Cape Coast in Ghana.  The workshop is targeted at Information
Technology (IT) personnel working in industry, government, tertiary
institutions and non-profit organizations.
 
The workshop is aimed at building
the capacities of IT personnel in Unix Systems Administration in Ghana. The
Internet Society, Ghana Chapter will be facilitating the first workshop, but subsequent
workshops would be facilitated and organised by ghNOG.  Part of ghNOG’s role would be to harmonise
the activities of network operators locally with the aim of improving their
work and ICT in general.  
.
The initiative to localize
‘AfNOG E0’ in African countries is being spearheaded by the Internet Society.
‘E0 Localization’ workshops will be organized twice yearly in July and
December/January in Ghana.
 
-----------------------------------



Eric Akumiah
ISOC Ghana



      
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://afnog.org/pipermail/afnog/attachments/20090723/07185440/attachment-0001.html>