<div><FONT face="arial narrow"><FONT size=3>I stand on behalf of the youth of Africa to congratulate</FONT> you</FONT>,<STRONG> </STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor</STRONG> on <FONT face="arial narrow" size=4>winning the <EM>Jon Postel prestigious award</EM> <EM> of the year</EM>. </FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="arial narrow" size=4>We appreciate your consistency,struggle at building instituitions , frameworks, standard that today, we too, can say that we are a part of the global world.</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4>We are not oblivious of the challenges faced today interms of the internet penetration in Africa but we are also hopeful of the days ahead since the foundation has been built for us to move on further.</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="arial narrow" size=4>Your envious landmark spreads across Africa and we, the youth of Africa are proud of your bravery in the midst of challenges from within and outside of Africa.</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="arial narrow" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="arial narrow" size=4>Our Pan African fathers like Kwame Nkrumah championed our political freedom and you have remained; not joining the brain- drain to champion our presence on the information world, the internet. .This we agree have not come on a silver platter</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="arial narrow" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="arial narrow" size=4> As an Academician- professor of computer science at University of <SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1196966596_8 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Cape-Coast, Ghana, </SPAN> founding chairman of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry,</div> <div> the convener of the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG), Business Executive -chairman of Network Computer Systems (NCS) <A href="http://ghana.com/" target=_blank><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1196966596_7 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"><FONT color=#003399>Ghana.COM</FONT></SPAN></A> , internet service proviser (ISP) , you have been a shinning role model on the land of our birth and we, today have the course to be proud to be called Africans.</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4>I must underscore here that every African has directly or indirectly been a recipient of your philanthropic works
and we can look into the future with hope.</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4>We will on this same platform appeal that the youth should be well engaged on all multi-stakeholder activities of the internet to enable us better appreciate the internet. and see it has a tool for development.</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="arial narrow" size=4>with a standing ovation, we say again congratulations!</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial
Narrow" size=4>Ebenezer annang</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4>internet support,</FONT></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=4></FONT></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To know more about the Jon Postel award please see <A title=http://www.isoc.org/awards/ href="http://www.isoc.org/awards/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1196963486_8><FONT color=#003399>http://www.isoc.org/awards/</FONT></SPAN></A>.</SPAN></SPAN></div><p>
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