<div>Félicitations à ADIEL!!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/26 Anne-Rachel Inné <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annerachel@gmail.com">annerachel@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Felicitations Adiel et bravo ncore pour tous tes efforts.<br><br>ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE AWARD<br>
------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><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: rgb(0,102,204) 1px dashed">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: rgb(0,102,204) 1px dashed">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 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: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%">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: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%">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 href="mailto:sec@afnog.org" target="_blank"><span>sec@afnog.org</span></a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>afnog mailing list<br><a href="http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog" target="_blank"><span>http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog</span></a> <br>
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