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<b style=""><span style="">Dear Colleagues,</span></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="">IPv6 Webinar for African Operators,
Monday, 30 April 2012, 13:00 (UTC)</span></b><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="">Based
on
the feedback received from the first webinar that showed a high
demand for more frequent IPv6 dedicated events delivered in this
method, AfriNIC, Internet Society and France Telecom have
decided to organize a monthly IPv6 webinar that is scheduled to
be held on the last Monday of every month.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="">This
Webinar aims at assisting African operators with their adoption
plans through sharing best experiences and practices region
wide. Each month an IPv6 related topic will be chosen for
discussion and throughout the month the topic will be discussed
on the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net"><span style="">afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net</span></a><span
style=""> to get a better understanding of the community's needs
and points of view. The webinar will address these topics
through a number of regional experts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="">This
Webinar
will be dedicated to "IPv6 address planning and design" on the
30th of April (13:00 UTC)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">The webinar will be 90
minutes long, divided into two segments of 45 minutes each</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">Expert presentation and experiences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">Open discussion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="">Meeting agenda</span></b><span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">IPv6 address planning (Tamon Akong Mukom, Training
Manager at AfriNIC)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">African Mobile & ISP experience</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">SimbaNET Tanzania: (Frank Habicht)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">Safaricom Kenya: (John Gitau)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">Sonatel Senegal: (Samba Laobe THIAM)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span
style="">Open discussion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">For more info please see</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.afrinic.net/webinar/ipv6_webinar_30042012.htm"><span
style="color: blue;">http://www.afrinic.net/webinar/ipv6_webinar_30042012.htm</span></a><span
style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">For the previous webinar please
see</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.afrinic.net/webinar/ipv6_webinar_21032012.htm"><span
style="color: blue;">http://www.afrinic.net/webinar/ipv6_webinar_21032012.htm</span></a><span
style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span
style="color: rgb(102, 255, 102);"></span><b style=""><span
style="">ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS<br>
AfriNIC</span></b><span style=""><br>
AfriNIC has been set up to serve the African community by
providing professional and efficient management of Internet
Number Resources, supporting Internet technology usage and
development, and promoting a participative and multi-stakeholder
approach to Internet self governance<span style="">. AfriNIC is
a non-government, not-for-profit, membership based
organization, based in Mauritius.<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="">Trainings and capacity building are a central part of
AfriNIC’s activities and our objective is to build competence
within our region in IPv6 implementation and associated
technologies required to use our resources effectively and to
increase awareness within the service region on how Internet is
governed and the roles organisations have in this environment.</span><span
style=""></span><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145);"><br>
</span><b style=""><span style="">Internet Society</span></b><span
style=""><br>
The Internet Society is the world’s trusted independent source
of leadership for Internet policy, technology standards, and
future development. Based on its principled vision and
substantial technological foundation, the Internet Society works
with its members and Chapters around the world to promote the
continued evolution and growth of the open Internet through
dialog among companies, governments, and other organizations
around the world. For more information, see: </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.internetsociety.org"><span
style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.internetsociety.org</span></a><span
style=""></span><b style=""><span style=""><br>
France Telecom</span></b><span style=""><br>
France Telecom-Orange is one of the world's leading
telecommunications operators with 172,000 employees worldwide,
including 105,000 employees in France, and sales of 45.3 billion
euros in 2011. Present in 35 countries, the Group had a customer
base of 226 million customers at 31 December 2011, including 147
million customers under the Orange brand, the Group's single
brand for internet, television and mobile services in the
majority of countries where the company operates. At 31 December
2011, the Group had 167 million mobile customers and 14 million
broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is
one of the main European operators for mobile and broadband
internet services and, under the brand Orange Business Services,
is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication
services to multinational companies.</span></p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards,
The AfriNIC IPv6 Program
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