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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Congratulations to Adiel and the other honorees.<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
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-Vincent<BR>
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On 5/26/09 4:15 PM, "Anne-Rachel Inné" <<a href="annerachel@gmail.com">annerachel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Felicitations Adiel et bravo ncore pour tous tes efforts.<BR>
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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 - www.nro.net <<a href="http://www.nro.net/">http://www.nro.net/</a>> ) 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: <a href="sec@afnog.org">sec@afnog.org</a> <<a href="mailto:sec@afnog.org">mailto:sec@afnog.org</a>> <BR>
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