[afnog] ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE AWARD

[Antonio Godinho]

Congratulations to Adiel!!! Great work.

Cheers,

Antonio Godinho
.MZ


On Tue, 26 May 2009 14:47:36 +0100, Nancy Dotse wrote
> ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE AWARD
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> 
> Accra, Ghana, 19 May 2009 - The African Network Operators Group 
> (AfNOG) has awarded Internet engineer Adiel A. Akplogan the first 
> Network Information Infrastructure (Nii) Service Award for 2009 for 
> his contribution in establishing the very successful African 
> Internet Numbers Registry, AfriNIC, and for his leadership and 
> service to the African technical community. AfNOG presented the 
> Award during its 10th anniversary meeting held in Cairo, Egypt.
> 
> "Adiel Akplogan has selflessly worked to establish AfriNIC and worked
> tirelessly to grow the membership, improve use of number resources 
> and built an active technical community in Africa. This has resulted 
> in the growth of a more robust Internet in Africa and developed an 
> active technical community of LIRs developing policies appropriate 
> for the region. This has enabled development of numerous 
> applications throughout  Africa impacting education, health and 
> commerce in a notable way" said Nii Quaynor, Convener of AfNOG whom 
> the Award is named after. Nii himself received the Internet 
> Society's prestigious Jonathan Postel Award in 2007.
> 
> Adiel continues to provide leadership in the numbers registry 
> community and has been a strong African voice in several global 
> technical fora. Adiel A. Akplogan is the Chief Executive Officer of 
> AfriNIC Ltd., the Internet Numbers' Resource Registry for Africa 
> since 2004. With more than 15 years experience in the Internet 
> Technology environment, he has previously worked as New Technology 
> Director at CAFENet (an IT service company based in Togo - 1994-2000)
> , then as IT Director of Symbol Technologies in France
> (2001-2003). He has served as member of the UN Secretary General Internet
> Governance Forum Advisors Group since (2006-2009), and  the OIF
> 
> (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) group of Expert on 
Internet
> Governance since 1999. He has served in the African Technical 
> Advisory Committee of the United Nation Economic Commission for 
> Africa (ATAC/UNECA) from 2005-2006. Mr. Akplogan is current Chair of 
> the NRO Executive Council
> (Number Resource Organization - www.nro.net) and was involved with 
> the setting up of several technical coordination bodies in Africa 
> such as the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) where he serves 
> as a member of the Administrative committee and the African ccTLD 
> Managers Association (AfTLD). Adiel is an Electrical Engineer and 
> holds a M.Sc. in E-Business and New Technology Management.
> 
> About Network Information Infrastructure (Nii) Service Award
> The Nii Service award has been established by AfNOG at its 10th anniversary
> to honor those who have made outstanding contributions in service to 
> the Internet community in Africa. The focus is on continued substantial
> technical contributions and service to the community. We place particular
> emphasis on leadership through mentoring of young engineers. The 
> award will be given annually at AfNOG meetings
> 
> About AfNOG
> The Africa Network Operators Group is a forum for the exchange of technical
> information, and aims to promote discussion of implementation issues 
> that require community cooperation through coordination and 
> cooperation among network service providers to ensure the stability 
> of service to end users Other awards were also given to AfNOG 
> instructors who had made significant contributions to the community. 
> The honorees included Alain Aina, Alan Barret, Ayitey Bulley, Sunday 
> Folayan,  Mark Tinka and Randy Bush. A special award was also given 
> to Hon Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications of Republic of Egypt 
> who had been a long time contributor in the technical community in 
> Africa and hosted the 10th anniversary meeting of AfNOG
> 
> Contact AfNOG at :
> 
> Nancy Dotse, 
> Coordinator, AfNOG Secretariat
> 16 Boundary Road, East Legon
> P.O Box 3035, Accra, Ghana
> Phone: +233 277 552 308
> Fax: +233 21 521 696
> Email: sec at afnog.org
> 
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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique


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