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<p>Dear Community,<br>
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Africa now has only about 2 million IPv4 addresses. This is
grossly inadequate to support the over 500 million Africans who
are still not connected to the Internet. It is time for us to
transition to IPv6.<br>
<br>
We have so far trained more than 5,000 engineers from every
country in Africa. To further support operators beyond training,
we created and launched the world’s first Deployathon in 2018.
(Click <a
href="https://learn.afrinic.net/deployathon/?#lh2020afripv6"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://learn.afrinic.net/deployathon </a>
for more details about deployathons). </p>
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<p> Last year, we helped engineers from 55 network operators to
advance their IPv6 deployments during our highly rated
deployathons in Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi and Blantyre (See
detailed accomplishments at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://learn.afrinic.net/deployathon/?#lh2020afripv6">https://learn.afrinic.net/deployathon</a>
). This would not have been possible without the support of local
hosting partners. </p>
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<p> We are again inviting organisations in the AFRINIC Community to
partner with us to host an IPv6 Deployathon in 2020. Learn more
and submit a hosting proposal at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://learn.afrinic.net/deployathon/?#lh2020afripv6">https://learn.afrinic.net/deployathon
</a><br>
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We look forward to partnering with you to ensure you have the
capacity to successfully advance IPv6 (and RPKI) deployment in
your country.<br>
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The deadline for submitting proposals is 29 March 2020. For more
information and queries about Deployathons, please contact: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="do@afrinic.net">do@afrinic.net</a>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Willy MANGA
Deployment Operationalisation Engineer - Capacity building department
t: +230 403 51 00 | f: +230 466 6758 | tt: @afrinic | w: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.afrinic.net">www.afrinic.net</a></pre>
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