<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Fyi<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">AFRINIC Communication <<a href="mailto:comms@afrinic.net" class="">comms@afrinic.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[AFRINIC-Announce] Participate in AFRINIC's next webinar ''Preparing Critical Internet Infrastructure for Black Swan Events''</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">6 April 2020 at 09:58:19 GMT+4<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:announce@afrinic.net" class="">announce@afrinic.net</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear colleagues,<br class=""><br class="">Like many professionals around the world, recent events have affected your everyday practices and routines. You might even wish there was a fast forward button to skip 2020.<br class=""><br class="">One or more of the following may have happened to you:<br class=""><br class=""> * Working from home is the new normal<br class=""> * Someone you know has lost all or part of their income<br class=""> * Your children or friend’s children have had to stop going to school<br class=""><br class="">You have considered making a sacrifice to the gods of the Internet (ok — maybe not). You may also have realised that perhaps those people who were pushing for Internet access as a human right weren’t so wrong after all - the Internet is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s an essential requirement for survival in the 21st century.<br class=""><br class="">Join us as we discuss critical internet infrastructure. We will specifically focus on:<br class=""><br class=""> * What is critical Internet infrastructure?<br class=""> * How do Black Swan events, e.g. pandemics, affect critical Internet infrastructure?<br class=""> * How are critical infrastructure holding up around the world during this COVID-19 pandemic?<br class=""> * How do we determine and plug the critical infrastructure deficits at organisational and national levels?<br class=""><br class="">Register: <br class=""><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/2015686259690/WN_uNfJ7GZfT72__ktKZ2espw" class="">https://zoom.us/webinar/register/2015686259690/WN_uNfJ7GZfT72__ktKZ2espw</a><br class=""><br class="">Date: 9th April 2020<br class=""><br class="">Time:<br class=""><br class=""> 16:30 GST (Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar)<br class=""> 12:30 UTC (Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire)<br class=""> 13:30 WAT (Nigeria, Cameroon)<br class=""> 15:30 EAT (Kenya, Uganda)<br class=""><br class="">The webinar will be in English. A French one will be organised later. Please do not forget to add the event to your calendar.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Announce mailing list<br class="">Announce@afrinic.net<br class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/announce<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>