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<DIV>Nous sommes tous fiers de toi.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">De :</SPAN></B> Hawa Diakite <hawadiakite@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">À :</SPAN></B> africann@afrinic.net<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Envoyé le :</SPAN></B> Mardi, 26 Mai 2009, 14h39mn 08s<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Objet :</SPAN></B> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] ADIEL AKPLOGAN RECEIVES THE AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS, NII SERVICE AWARD<BR></FONT><BR>Felicitation Adiel, et bon courage<BR><BR>Hawa<BR><BR>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Congratulation brother Adiel</SPAN></P>
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<P>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</SPAN><BR><SPAN>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,</SPAN><BR><SPAN>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>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</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Governance</SPAN> since 1999. He has served in the African <SPAN>Technical Advisory</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Committee</SPAN> of the <SPAN>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 rel=nofollow><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</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Technology Management</SPAN>.<BR><BR>About Network <SPAN>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>Tarek Kamel</SPAN>, Minister of Communications of<BR>Republic of Egypt who had been a long time contributor in the <SPAN>technical</SPAN><BR><SPAN>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 rel=nofollow
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