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<b><strong>Dear colleagues,</strong></b><strong><br>
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Please see herewith the press release for the 2011 NI&I
Service Award, for your perusal.<br>
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<p align="center"><strong>"Alice Munuya awarded the 2011 NI&I
Service Award "</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Yaounde, 25 November 2011 - The 3rd Network
Information and Infrastructure Service Award has been awarded to <b>Alice
Munuya</b> in recognition to her contribution to improving and
sustaining Africa's Internet community. Dr. Nii Quaynor conveyor
of AfNOG presented the Award during AfriNIC 15th Public Policy
Meeting in Yaounde, Cameroon on 22 November 2011.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"> For Dr. Nii, Quaynor the initiator of the Award,
<i>"Recognising Alice is for us a way to highlight the importance
of the civil society and government's contribution to the growth
of our local community. We are at a stage where we need to build
a more coherent and strong multistakeholder community in order
to address our current challenges to build a brighter future for
Internet in Africa "</i> </p>
<p align="justify">Alice is Kenya's representative on the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Government Advisory
Committee (ICANN, GAC) and the chair of the 2011 UN-Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) held in Kenya in September 2011 and
convenes the East Africa Internet Governance Forum and the Kenya
ICT Action Network (Kictanet). <i>"For me, this award is a
tribute to my work and contribution at the regional level, a
great recognition from my role model and peers in the region. I
have been dedicated to creating awareness and understanding in
order to ensure that our region contributes meaningfully in
global internet governance and policy processes and hope to
continue to do so as internet governance becomes more and more
significant."</i> says Alice Munyua. </p>
<p align="justify">Besides the main NI&I Award, a Young
professional Award was also given to <b>Jean Robert Hountomey</b>
for his continuous contribution to the internet technical
community. Jean Robert has a passion for Information Systems
Security and is engaged in the community as track leader of the
African network Operator Group French Track, ICANN Address
Supporting Organization/ Address Council member for AfriNIC region
from 2005 to December 2011, Chair of Internet Society Chapter in
Togo, former member of Internet Exchange point Team. He is
currently performing the coordination function of the AfricaCERT
initiative. </p>
<p align="justify"> <i>"I'm very happy and proud to welcome both
Alice and Jean-Robert as NI&I Award alumni. It is hard to
miss Alice Munuya's effort in promoting a bottom-up and
participative Internet Governance culture in our region."</i>
says Adiel Akplogan, CEO of AfriNIC and recipient of the first
NI&I Service Award. </p>
<p align="justify"><b>The Network Information & Infrastructure
(NI&I)</b> Service Award was instituted in 2009 during
AfNOG's 10 years anniversary by Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, who himself
received the Internet Society's prestigious Jonathan Postel Award
in 2007 for his service in the region and example of dedication,
commitment and leadership for the young generation to emulate. The
NI&I Service Award has been set up to reward individuals and
organisations for providing Internetworking services and
Infrastructure in Africa. The NI&I Service Award pays tribute
to the actors of this sector in Africa and the Indian Ocean and
sets the foundation to reward the next generation of heroes and
models from the African Internet technical community for their
achievements. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.afrinic.net/www.niiserviceaward.org">www.niiserviceaward.org</a>
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<p align="justify"><b>The African Network Information Centre
(AfriNIC)</b> is the Regional Registry for Internet Number
Resources for Africa. Based in Mauritius, AfriNIC's mission is to
support Internet development in Africa and promote bottom up
Internet policy development in the region. <a
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href="http://www.afrinic.net/www.afrinic.net">www.afrinic.net</a></p>
<p align="justify"><b>The Africa Network Operators Group (AfNOG)</b>
is a forum for the exchange of technical information, and aims to
promote discussion of implementation issues that require community
cooperation through coordination and cooperation among network
service providers to ensure the stability of service to end
users.The goal of AfNOG is to share experience of technical
challenges in setting up, building and running IP networks on the
African continent <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.afrinic.net/www.afnog.org">www.afnog.org</a><br>
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<p align="justify">Regards,<br>
The AfriNIC Meeting Team<br>
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