[rpd] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Adiel Akplogan to Join ICANN as VP of Technical Engagement

[Wafa Dahmani Zaafouri]

Good news
congratulation Adiel

Le 04/02/2015 19:00, Seun Ojedeji a écrit :
>
> Join me in congratulating the former CEO of AFRINIC on his new role 
> within ICANN.
>
> Good to know that he will still be as close to the community. I wish 
> him all the best!
>
> Regards
>
> sent from Google nexus 4
> kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>
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> From: "ICANN News Alert" <communications at icann.org 
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> Date: 4 Feb 2015 18:30
> Subject: ICANN News Alert -- Adiel Akplogan to Join ICANN as VP of 
> Technical Engagement
> To: <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com <mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>>
> Cc:
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>     News Alert
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> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-02-04-en
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>     Adiel Akplogan to Join ICANN as VP of Technical Engagement
>
> Role aimed at strengthening ties to the technical community
>
> 4 February 2015
>
> Veteran Internet technology expert Adiel Akplogan is joining ICANN in 
> the newly created role of Vice President for Technical Engagement.
>
> Akplogan served most recently as the Chief Executive Officer of 
> AfriNIC, the Internet Numbers' Resource Registry for Africa, a 
> position he has held since 2004.
>
> "I'm delighted to welcome Adiel to ICANN," said Sally Costerton, 
> Special Advisor to the President for Global Stakeholder Engagement. 
> "He is a highly respected contributor to the Internet community and 
> his experienced leadership will reinforce and deepen ICANN's long term 
> participation in the technical community of which it is a critical part."
>
> Akplogan is among the original Internet pioneers in West Africa, where 
> he has played a critical role in setting up and managing CAFENet, one 
> of the first private Internet Service Providers in the region.
>
> "It's my sincere hope that I can help ICANN achieve the high level of 
> operational excellence that it is aiming for," said Adiel. "We are all 
> striving to maintain and improve a global communication and 
> information system that will define our future on multiple levels."
>
> In his new position, Akplogan will help ICANN conduct technical 
> engagement and outreach. He will also provide some valuable links to 
> the ICT community on the African continent, since he was instrumental 
> in establishing several technical coordination bodies such as the 
> African Network Operators Group (AfNOG), the African ccTLD Managers 
> Association (AfTLD), AfricaCERT and the Africa Internet Summit (AIS).
>
> Akplogan will be based in Montreal, Canada and will assume his new 
> position on March 1.
>
> To download a high-resolution photo of Adiel Akoplogan, go here: 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/16440900351/
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