[AfrICANN-discuss] FW: Reminder : AfNOG 2013 ANNOUNCEMENT - English

Mon Jan 7 18:22:23 SAST 2013

Hi
All,

Please
find below Announcement for AfNOG 2013. Kindly send to various lists.

Please
note Deadline for receipt of Applications is 25 January,
2013.   

Best
Regards

Nancy
Dotse                                                                                                                        

AfNOG
Secretariat

********

AIS
2013  (AfNOG-14 and AfriNIC-18 Workshop & Meeting,s 9 - 21 June, 2013)

Africa
Internet Summit (AIS) 2013, (formerly African Network Operators' Group(AfNOG)
and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC)

Workshop
& Meetings) is pleased to announce that the 14th AfNOG Workshop &
Meeting and the AfriNIC-18 Meeting would be held in Lusaka, Zambia from 9th
to

21st 
June 2013.  Every year, hundreds of Network Engineers from across the IT
industry in the Africa Continent and the world  attend the AIS Event.

"While
AIS  fuels the rapid growth of Internet in Africa with trained technical
capacity, our content has been

determined
by the needs of the community. In so doing AIS's output training capacity has
multiplied in the past decade

and
the community flourished"  Nii Quaynor.

About
the Entire Event

AIS
is organizing a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network
Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on

workshop),
several full-day Advanced Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG Meeting, and a three-day
AfriNIC Meeting.

In
addition, several side meetings and workshops will be hosted in collaboration
with other organizations.

Who
Should Attend

Network
engineers in the Africa region who wish to acquire the necessary skills in IT
must attend this Workshop.

Local
Host

The
Local Hosts for the Event are Internet Service Providers Association of Zambia
(ISPAZ)  and Zambia Information & Communications Authority (ZICTA)

Time
Table

Unix
Boot
Camp                        
-          
     9 June 2013 (Sunday)

AfNOG
Workshop                     
-         10 - 14 June 2013 
(Monday – Friday)

AfriNIC
RIM
(LIR)                      
-              
15  June 2013 (Saturday)

Africa
Internet Standards Wkshop 
-             
15 June 2013  (Saturday)

AfriNIC
IPv6                              
-         15 - 17 June 2013 (Saturday -
Monday)

AfricaCERT
Cybersecurity Day     
-               
15 June 2013 (Saturday)

AfGWG                                    
-              
15 June  2013 (Saturday)

AfNOG
Tutorials                       
-         16 - 17 June 2013 
(Sunday - Monday)

AfREN
Meeting /
AAF                
-              
17 June 2013 (Monday)

AfNOG
-13
Meeting                   
-              
18 June 2013 (Tuesday)

AfOPS   
                                       -            
19 June 2013 (Wednesday)

Africa
Internet Interconnection 

&
Traffic
Exchange                      
-             19
June, 2013 (Wednesday)

AfriNIC-18
Meeting                           
-         20 - 21 June 2013 (Thursday
to Friday)

Venue
& Hotel

Venue 
& hotel for the event will be announced shortly.

About
AfNOG

AfNOG
(See  http://www.afnog.org/ ) is a
forum for cooperation and the exchange of technical information between
operators of

Internet-connected
networks in Africa. AfNOG has organized an event like this one every year since
2000.

About
AfriNIC

AfriNIC
(See  http://www.afrinic.net/ ) is a
Regional Internet Registry (RIR), responsible for Internet Number resources

Management
in the Africa region. AfriNIC organizes two Public Policy meetings twice every
year.

AfNOG
Workshop on Network Technology

The
AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology aims to offer advanced training to people
who are in the process of developing and enhancing an

Internet-connected
network with regional and international connectivity. The target audience
includes senior and mid-level technical staff of

commercial
Internet Service providers (ISPs), academic networks, government networks, or
NGO networks.

This
workshop builds on the experience of previous AfNOG workshops held annually
from 2000 to 2012 in thirteen different African countries, and

also
the Internet Society's INET workshops, held annually from 1993 to 2000 at eight
locations around the world. The workshop's instructors are an

international
team with many years of experience operating large networks and teaching about
network operations.

The
workshop is divided into Six parallel tracks as below:

·        
SS-E
- Scalable Internet Services (in English), focused on the design and operation
of email, web, and other Internet services, in ways

that can scale to handle large numbers of end users.

·        
   SI-E
-  Scalable Network Infrastructure (in English), focused on the design and
operation of networks using routers and switches, 

in ways that can scale to handle large numbers of interconnected sites.

·        
   NM
-  Network Monitoring & Management (English)

·        
    AR 
-  Advanced Routing Techniques (English)

·        
    CT  
- CERT Training (English)

·        
   NM-F
-  Suivi et Gestion de Reseau (en francais), similar to track NM-E, but
given in French.

Workshop application information is at :

http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_en.php

http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_fr.php

**Workshop Deadline - 25 January, 2013

AfREN
/ Africa Asia Forum

The
Africa Research and Education Networking  (AfREN) and Africa Asia Forum
community (AAF) will  be holding a one day meeting on 17 June 2013. The

meeting
will discuss issues of interest to the NREN community such as coordination on
activites in the region, advocacy, bandwidth consortia,regional RENs etc.

Additional
information on AfREN /AAF 2013 will be provided shortly.

AfNOG
Tutorials

AfNOG
will offer 1 to 2 full-day(s) tutorials on advanced topics. Tutorials take
place in a classroom-style environment, and may include a hands-on

practical
component. Tutorials are non-commercial in nature, and most are technically
oriented. They are intended to offer advanced training on technology already

deployed
or soon to be deployed on networking and related services provisioning for ISP
operations.

Additional
information about AfNOG 2013 Tutorials will be available here shortly:  <
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2013/tutorial/

AfricaCERT <
Cybersecurity : what solution for the African Continent >

AfricaCERT
is the African Computer Emergency Response Team. AfricaCERT organizes training
on CERT operations, advanced technical training and conference. 

AfricaCERT
meetings provide a forum for collaboration and exchange for Computer Emergency
response Teams and interested parties to share best practices,

information,
tools, techniques, and strategies that address problems related to
cyber-security. Further  information is available

at
http://www.africacert.org 

14th
AfNOG Meeting

The
14th AfNOG meeting will be held in Lusaka, Zambia 18 June 2013. AfNOG
conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of

technical
information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and
operational practices. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on

relevance
to current and future African backbone engineering practices. The AfNOG 2012
conference in Serekunda, Gambia drew over 206 participants,

mainly
consisting of network engineering staff from national service providers, and
members of the research and education community.

Additional
information on the Conference schedule will be available here
shortly:   < http://www.afnog.org/afnog2013conference/

AfriNIC-18
Meeting

The
AfriNIC-18 meeting will be held in  Lusaka, Zambia for three days from 19
- 21 June, 2013. AfriNIC Meetings are open to everyone and provide an

excellent
opportunity to take part in Internet policy discussions. These policies, which
describe how Internet Number Resources should be managed

and
distributed, are developed by the community. The Event will include tutorials,
presentations, update on the various working groups and the

AfriNIC
Public Policy Meeting. The three day meeting will be preceeded by a two-day
IPv6 training and IRM. 

The
meeting will focus on the IPv6 protocol and its deployment, especially in 
Africa and the issue of the exhaustion of the IPv4 pool of address space. There
will 

be
an opportunity to discuss the challenges which our region faces with IPv4
address  space exhaustion among others.

Further
information will be available at http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/  
.

African
Internet Standard Workshop and Africa Internet Interconnection & Traffic

Exchange

The
Internet Society will be organizing an Africa Internet Standards workshop &
Africa Internet Interconnection & Traffic Exchange Workshop on

15th
June 2013 and 19th June respectively in conjunction with the AfNOG
14 and  AfriNIC 18 meetings in Lusaka, Zambia. The conference will discuss
the situation of Internet

Interconnection
in Africa, the challenges as well as the solutions, including Internet Exchange
Points.

The
meeting agenda will be available in due course.

Visa
Requirements

Citizens
of certain countries require a visa to enter Zambia.  Please visit
this link to understand Visa requirements for nationals

travelling to Zambia. http://www.zambiaimmigration.gov.zm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=117

You
may also wish to check with the Zambian
Embassy or Consulate in your country for details.

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