[AfrICANN-discuss] PRESS RELEASE : GHANA’S MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION INAUGURATES GHANA NETWORK OPERATORS’ GROUP

[Eric Akumiah]

For Immediate Release

GHANA’S MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION INAUGURATES GHANA NETWORK OPERATORS’ GROUP

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.
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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.