[AfrICANN-discuss] The Africa Domain Name System Forum Awards Call for nominations

[Barrack Otieno]

Dear Community,

This is a polite reminder. The Awards are still open. Click on this link
<https://dnsforum.africa/awards/> to nominate an institution or person you
think deserves the award.

Best Regards

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:50 PM Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Background
>
> This year, the Africa DNS Forum, a journey that started in 2013, turns 10
> years old. It has been a decade of mixed results, great insights,
> challenges, and opportunities. We are confident of the tremendous success
> witnessed in the industry and the opportunities that abound considering the
> DNS landscape in Africa which could not have been achieved without the
> support of various actors within and beyond the African continent. One of
> the objectives of the forum inception is to recognize, reward, appreciate
> and acknowledge excellence in the Africa DNS Marketplace. This would be by
> establishing a well thought out and transparent criteria for selecting
> deserving individual and institutional players who have made significant
> contribution to the overall growth and development of the Africa DNS
> Industry and marketplace.
>
> Categories of the Awards
>
> There will be two categories of awards during this 10th Africa DNS Forum
>
>
>    1.
>
>    Recognition and Acknowledgement Award (Ten in total): This award will
>    target institutions and / or individuals who were outstanding in
>    contributing to the development of the DNS industry in Africa; Could be
>    organizers of the DNS Forum or any other events that have contributed to
>    DNS development in Africa.
>    2.
>
>    Africa DNS Excellence Award: (Two in total) to be offered to one
>    institution and one individual who have been demonstrated being innovative
>    and successful in maintaining a resilient and sustainable development of
>    the DNS industry in Africa. Target institutions could include but not
>    limited to registries, registrars, registrants, ISPs, or research
>    institutions. This would be an annual award going forward.
>
>
> Selection Criteria
>
> The Ideal candidates may be organizations or Individuals that meet some of
> most of the below properties.
>
>    -
>
>    Developing capacity-building programs that positively influenced
>    African DNS landscape
>    -
>
>    Past Hosts for Africa DNS Forums
>    -
>
>    Consistent sponsors of Africa DNS Forum over the years
>    -
>
>    Establishment and Promotion of National DNS Fora Across Africa
>    -
>
>    Championing innovative solutions to improve the African DNS Marketplace
>    -
>
>    Individuals should be of African nationality
>    -
>
>    Promoting Research in the Africa DNS Market Place
>    -
>
>    Institutions / organizations should headquartered in Africa
>
>
> Selection Panel
>
> A community based review panel of eminent personalities in the domain name
> ecosystem will consider the nominations in light of the criteria and
> recommend a short list of nominees for each category to the organizing
> partners of the Africa DNS Forum for consideration and adoption. The
> proposed members of the selection panel include.
>
>    1.
>
>    Prof Souleymane  Oumtanga
>    2.
>
>    Prof. Prof Nicolas Razafindrakoto
>    3.
>
>    Hadia El Miniawi
>    4.
>
>    Oluniyi Ajao
>    5.
>
>    Ramanou Biaou
>    6.
>
>    Mary Uduma
>
>
> The panel shall select their own chair and agree on working methods, and
> the secretariat of the Africa DNS forum would offer any necessary support
> to the panel to ensure they execute their work within the required
> timelines.
>
> Timelines
>
> Nominees and interested candidates are requested to send their proposals
> via email to awards at dnsforum.africa. The following is a timeline of
> activities:
>
>    1.
>
>    Call for Nominations published online by Sept 12, 2022
>    2.
>
>    Deadline for receiving nominations is Sept 19, 2022
>    3.
>
>    Deadline for Consideration and Evaluation of Nominations Sept 23, 2022
>    4.
>
>    Selected Nominees are submitted to the Secretariat by Sept 26, 2022.
>
> The recipients will be officially unveiled during the Africa DNS Forum
> Gala on October 5, 2022.
>
>
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>
>
>
>

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