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

[GOGWIM, JOEL GODWIN]

We rejoice with you Adiel A. Akplogan.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 3:47 pm, Antonio Godinho said:
> 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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