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I would like to add my voice to this long list of congratulations.<br>
Adiel Bravo and please continue.<br>
<br>
Khaled<br>
<br>
Pierre Ouedraogo a écrit :
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type="cite">Adiel,<br>
<br>
La très longue liste de félicitations en dit long sur lemérite reconnu
par la communauté.<br>
Bravo à toi, et que le succès soit toujours à tes côtés pour le bien de
l'Afrique.<br>
<br>
Amitiés<br>
PO<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/26 Anne-Rachel Inné <span dir="ltr"><<a
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Felicitations
Adiel et bravo ncore pour tous tes efforts.<br>
<br>
ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE AWARD<br>
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<span>Accra, Ghana</span>, 19 May 2009 - The <span>African Network
Operators Group</span> (AfNOG) has<br>
awarded Internet engineer Adiel A. Akplogan the first Network <span>Information<br>
Infrastructure</span> (Nii) Service Award for 2009 for his contribution
in<br>
establishing the very successful <span>African Internet Numbers</span>
Registry, AfriNIC,<br>
and for his leadership and service to the African <span>technical
community</span>.<br>
AfNOG presented the Award during its 10th anniversary meeting held in <span>Cairo,<br>
Egypt</span>.<br>
<br>
"Adiel Akplogan has selflessly worked to establish AfriNIC and worked<br>
tirelessly to grow the membership, improve use of number resources and
built<br>
an active technical community in <span>Africa</span>. This has
resulted in the growth of<br>
a more robust Internet in Africa and developed an active technical
community<br>
of LIRs developing policies appropriate for the region. This has enabled<br>
development of numerous applications throughout Africa impacting
education,<br>
health and commerce in a notable way" said <span
style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);">Nii Quaynor</span>,
Convener of AfNOG<br>
whom the Award is named after. Nii himself received the Internet
Society's<br>
prestigious Jonathan Postel Award in 2007.<br>
<br>
Adiel continues to provide leadership in the numbers registry community
and<br>
has been a strong African voice in several global technical fora.<br>
Adiel A. Akplogan is the <span>Chief Executive Officer</span> of
AfriNIC Ltd., the<br>
<span>Internet Numbers</span>' Resource Registry for Africa since
2004. With more than 15<br>
years experience in the Internet Technology environment, he has
previously<br>
worked as New Technology Director at CAFENet (an IT service company
based in<br>
<span>Togo</span> - 1994-2000), then as IT Director of <span>Symbol
Technologies</span> in <span>France</span><br>
(2001-2003). He has served as member of the UN Secretary General
Internet<br>
Governance Forum Advisors Group since (2006-2009), and the OIF<br>
(Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) group of Expert on <span>Internet<br>
Governance</span> since 1999. He has served in the African <span>Technical
Advisory<br>
Committee</span> of the <span
style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);">United Nation
Economic Commission for Africa</span> (ATAC/UNECA)<br>
from 2005-2006. Mr. Akplogan is current Chair of the NRO Executive
Council<br>
(Number Resource Organization - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nro.net/" target="_blank"><span>www.nro.net</span></a>)
and was involved with the<br>
setting up of several <span>technical coordination bodies</span> in
Africa such as the<br>
African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) where he serves as a member of
the<br>
<span>Administrative committee</span> and the African ccTLD
Managers Association (AfTLD).<br>
Adiel is an <span>Electrical Engineer</span> and holds a M.Sc. in
E-Business and <span>New<br>
Technology Management</span>.<br>
<br>
About Network <span
style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Information
Infrastructure</span> (Nii) Service Award<br>
The Nii Service award has been established by AfNOG at its 10th
anniversary<br>
to honor those who have made outstanding contributions in service to the<br>
Internet community in Africa. The focus is on continued substantial<br>
technical contributions and service to the community. We place
particular<br>
emphasis on leadership through mentoring of young engineers. The award
will<br>
be given annually at AfNOG meetings<br>
<br>
About AfNOG<br>
The <span>Africa Network Operators Group</span> is a forum for the
exchange of technical<br>
information, and aims to promote discussion of <span>implementation
issues</span> that<br>
require community cooperation through coordination and cooperation among<br>
<span>network service providers</span> to ensure the stability of
service to end users<br>
Other awards were also given to AfNOG instructors who had made
significant<br>
contributions to the community. The honorees included Alain Aina, Alan<br>
Barret, Ayitey Bulley, Sunday Folayan, Mark Tinka and Randy Bush. A
special<br>
award was also given to Hon <span
style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Tarek
Kamel</span>, Minister of Communications of<br>
Republic of Egypt who had been a long time contributor in the <span>technical<br>
community</span> in Africa and hosted the 10th anniversary meeting of
AfNOG<br>
<br>
Contact AfNOG at :<br>
<br>
Nancy Dotse, <br>
Coordinator, AfNOG Secretariat<br>
16 Boundary Road, East <span>Legon</span><br>
P.O Box 3035, Accra, Ghana<br>
Phone: +233 277 552 308<br>
Fax: +233 21 521 696<br>
Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sec@afnog.org"
target="_blank"><span>sec@afnog.org</span></a><br>
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