[AfrICANN-discuss] ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE AWARD

[Khaled KOUBAA]

I would like to add my voice to this long list of congratulations.
Adiel Bravo and please continue.

Khaled

Pierre Ouedraogo a écrit :
> Adiel,
>
> La très longue liste de félicitations en dit long sur lemérite reconnu 
> par la communauté.
> Bravo à toi, et que le succès soit toujours à tes côtés pour le bien 
> de l'Afrique.
>
> Amitiés
> PO
>
> 2009/5/26 Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel at gmail.com 
> <mailto:annerachel at gmail.com>>
>
>     Felicitations Adiel et bravo ncore pour tous tes efforts.
>
>     ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE
>     AWARD
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     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 <http://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 <mailto:sec at afnog.org>
>
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