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AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS,
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ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE AWARD<br>
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Accra, Ghana, 19 May 2009 - The African Network Operators Group (AfNOG)
has<br>
awarded Internet engineer Adiel A. Akplogan the first Network Information<br>
Infrastructure (Nii) Service Award for 2009 for his contribution in<br>
establishing the very successful African Internet Numbers Registry, AfriNIC,<br>
and for his leadership and service to the African technical community.<br>
AfNOG presented the Award during its 10th anniversary meeting held in Cairo,<br>
Egypt.<br>
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"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 Africa. 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 Nii Quaynor, 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>
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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 Chief Executive Officer of AfriNIC Ltd., the<br>
Internet Numbers' 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>
Togo - 1994-2000), then as IT Director of Symbol Technologies in France<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 Internet<br>
Governance since 1999. He has served in the African Technical Advisory<br>
Committee of the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (ATAC/UNECA)<br>
from 2005-2006. Mr. Akplogan is current Chair of the NRO Executive Council<br>
(Number Resource Organization - </font><a href=http://www.nro.net/ target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>www.nro.net</u></font></a><font size=3>)
and was involved with the<br>
setting up of several technical coordination bodies in Africa such as the<br>
African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) where he serves as a member of
the<br>
Administrative committee and the African ccTLD Managers Association (AfTLD).<br>
Adiel is an Electrical Engineer and holds a M.Sc. in E-Business and New<br>
Technology Management.<br>
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About Network Information Infrastructure (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>
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About AfNOG<br>
The Africa Network Operators Group is a forum for the exchange of technical<br>
information, and aims to promote discussion of implementation issues that<br>
require community cooperation through coordination and cooperation among<br>
network service providers 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 Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications of<br>
Republic of Egypt who had been a long time contributor in the technical<br>
community in Africa and hosted the 10th anniversary meeting of AfNOG<br>
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Contact AfNOG at :<br>
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Nancy Dotse, <br>
Coordinator, AfNOG Secretariat<br>
16 Boundary Road, East Legon<br>
P.O Box 3035, Accra, Ghana<br>
Phone: +233 277 552 308<br>
Fax: +233 21 521 696<br>
Email: </font><a href=mailto:sec@afnog.org><font size=3 color=blue><u>sec@afnog.org</u></font></a><font size=3><br>
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