[afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC Board Nominees: Period of comment Open

Tue Mar 29 19:26:03 SAST 2005

Dear Colleagues,

We have received the following nominations for the upcoming AfriNIC  Board Election for the renewal of Seat 5 (Indian Ocean region) and seat 6 (Central region):

Central Region

 M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro (Democratic Republic of Congo)
 M Jules Albert Ngamba    (Cameroon)
 M Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe (Democratic Republic of Congo)
 Mrs Mohammed El Bashir (Sudan)
 M. BOURAGA Gatan (Gabon)

Indian Ocean Region

 Dr Viv Padayatchy (Mauritius)
 M Kenneth Yiptong (Mauritius)

Comment period is open now until April 20, 2005.  You must send your comments to bodnom-comments at afrinic.net with the name of the Nominee in the subject line.
More information about the nominees can be found at http://www.afrinic.net/bot/nominees2005.htm 

Kind regards

Yaovi Atohoun
Board ECOM chair
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See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005
Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005
www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2
www.afnog.org

========================= Nominees ============================================

Full Name:       M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro 
Organisation:    Roffe Hitech 
Country:           DRC 
Runing for:        Central Africa 

Brief statement

I seek a position of Board member of Afrinic for several reason: I was elected in may 2004 and would like to continue in this critical time Afrinic is starting operation now, i hope i will help the boat to keep moving in right direction. I seek to increase visibility of Afrinic and to ensure continuation of good things

Regards

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Full name: M Jules Albert Ngamba 
Organisation:    CAMTEL 
Country:           Cameroon 
Runing for:        Central Africa 

Brief statement:

I am the LIR manager of CAMTEL and would like to go deeply into IR and other issues regarding internet policy.I wish to make central africa sub region to become more active in internet policy issues, by initiating discussion with the LIR managers of other countries of the sub region.. 

Regards.

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Full Name:       Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe 
Organisation:    University of Kinshasa / Vodacom 
Country:           DRC 
Runing for:        Central Africa  

Brief statement:

I  am a member of Afrinic BoT. I have got a Phd in computer sciences, and I have good experience in IT, computer networking and Internet technologies. Now, I am working as an Associate  Professor in computer engineering (Faculty of sciences, math and computer dept.) at the University of Kinshasa and as Network Quality Specialist in the Engineering dept. at Vodacom DRC. I  have been implied in some telecom/Internet important projects in my country and I had contributed in creation of some IT/Internet  associations (e.g. ISPADRC\). I think my experience in IT and Internet development will allow me to bring a certain value added.

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Full Name:       Mrs Mohammed El Bashir 
Organisation:    Sudan Internet Society "SIS" 
Country:           Sudan 
Runing for:        Central Africa 

Brief statement:

My Name is Mohammed EL Bashir, Founder and Chairman of udan Internet Society "SIS", SIS emerged to serve the Sudanese community and provide l eadership in addressing key issues about the roles and uses of Internet in Sudan Domain Name .SD Registry, SIS is a Certified ICANN ALAC Structure. 

I been working in Sudan Telecom, responsible for Internet Infrastructure Development, Internet Bandwidth and Applications. Now i am head of IT & Systems Dpt at Open University of Sudan. 

I am nominating myself to Afrinic BOT because i believe Africnic could be a perfect example of how African can manage their Resources and I would like to help toward that goal and participate in  Afrinic evolution process. 

You can find a summary of my biography at 
http://www.isoc.sd/hirakia_biography_summary.pdf 

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Full name:    BOURAGA Gaetan 
Organization: GABON TELECOM 
Country:        GABON 
Region:         Central Africa 

Brief statement:

I am an electronics and industrial data processing  engineer, specialized in Internet & Broadband Networks and Backbones Engineering, 
I am technical contact of the ccTLD ga, member of the International college of AFNIC, representative of the ccTLD ga to the ccNSO and 
AFTLD, technical contact of the LIR opt.ga at AFRINIC/RIPE NCC. Vice president of the Gabonese association of the free software users and am currently indicate by the Gabonese government to set up ccTLD .gas registry. I have just initiated the installation of an exchange point carrying out the convergence of the corporate networks in GABON to support E-trade. My wish is to contribute to Africa my share to enable him to take up the challenges of the development. 

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Full Name:       Dr Viv Padayatchy 
Organisation:   ACT 
Country:            Mauritius 
Runing for:        Indian Ocean 

Brief Statement:       
I would like to serve another term on the board of Afrinic

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Full Name:         M Kenneth Yiptong 
Organisation:    Mauritel International Ltd 
Country:              Mauritius 
Runing for:        Indian Ocean

Brief statement 

Being on the board since Dakar has been a very enriching experience. I feel it is my duty to come back for another and last term to help complete the transition process and ensure AfriNIC administration is set up with a solid foundation. 

I have been involved in the ICT Industry in Mauritius for many years. I am also a board member of ACT (Local ICT association) & AMPAD (Local mobile phone association). 

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