<div>Let me enjoy others and to congratualte Dr Nii Qaynor.</div>
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<div>Baudouin<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/12/7, Adiel A. Akplogan <<a href="mailto:adiel@afrinic.net">adiel@afrinic.net</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/news/press/POSTELAWARD_2007_PRESS_RELEASE.pdf">http://www.afrinic.net/news/press/POSTELAWARD_2007_PRESS_RELEASE.pdf
</a><br><br>Mauritius, December 06th 2007: Dr Nii Quaynor awarded John Postel Service<br> Award 2007<br><br>AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for Africa, is very pleased to announce<br>
that Dr. Nii Quaynor, convenor of AfNOG and one of the authors of the original<br>project plan to set up an African Internet Number Registry has been awarded the<br>Jonathan B. Postel Award at the IETF-70 meeting on 5th December 2007 which was
<br>held in Vancouver Canada.<br><br>Dr. Nii Quaynor becomes the first African to receive this prestigious<br>award from<br>the Internet community. Each year, the Internet Society awards the Jonathan B.<br>Postel Service Award. The award is presented to an individual who has made
<br>outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community.<br><br>Dr. Quaynor has selflessly pioneered Internet development and expansion<br>throughout Africa for nearly two decades, enabling profound advances in
<br>information access, education, healthcare and commerce for African<br>countries and<br>their citizens, said Internet Society president Lynn St. Amour. Today, Dr.<br>Quaynor continues to champion not just technological advances but also African
<br>involvement in Internet standards, processes and deployments, discussion on<br>Internet policies and regulations, and ensuring African interests are well-<br>represented globally. He has shaped a community of Africans who share
<br>his vision<br>and reflect the dedication shown by Jon Postel.<br><br>According to Adiel A. Akplogan, the CEO of AfriNIC, This is an important<br>milestone for the African technical community presence in the International
<br>forum. We expect this Award to have a huge impact on the community and will<br>certainly emulate more contribution and commitment for Internet Protocol<br>technology and it use for Development in the AfriNIC service region.
<br><br>Dr. Nii Quaynor has pledged to dedicate his prize to contribute to the new fund<br>being setup by AfriNIC to support Internet development in Africa (African Fund<br>for Capacity Building, Research and Internet Development).
<br><br>He said: We need to develop our young engineers to emulate the dedication to<br>network engineering as exemplified by Jon Postel. We have to harness the<br>pioneering work done by the dedicated technical leadership who have trained
<br>hundreds of young engineers through AfNOG and AfriNIC. The fund will make a<br>difference in support for education and research of young engineers in Africa.<br><br>We would like all the African community to join us to congratulate Dr Nii
<br>Quaynor for his great contribution to the Internet community in Africa.<br>AfriNIC is a non-governmental and not-for-profit membership based organisation.<br>Its main role is to serve Africa region as Regional Internet Registry, like the
<br>four other continents which have their own RIR.<br><br>AfriNIC's mission is To provide professional and efficient distribution of<br>Internet number resources to the African Internet community, to<br>support Internet
<br>technology usage and development across the continent and strengthen self<br>Internet governance in Africa by encouraging a participative policy<br>development.<br><br>To contact AfriNIC: t: +230 4666616, f: +230 4666758, e:
<a href="mailto:press@afrinic.net">press@afrinic.net</a><br><br>More about the Postel Service Award: <a href="http://www.isoc.org/awards/">http://www.isoc.org/awards/</a><br><br><br>--<br>No virus found in this outgoing message.
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