<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Resilience has been a key concept in 2020, and the Internet Society actually ran a series of <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/events/african-internet-resilience/">seven African Internet Resilience webinars</a> exploring it in depth. At the end of the year, Joseph Bishi, one of the speakers in that series, joined Jane Coffin and the wider ISOC community tot tell his story.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_default"></div><br><u></u>
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                                ISOC Live posted: "Today, Wednesday December 30 2020, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the fifth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams 2020 highlights, we feature two presentations from the fifth Intercommunity call in 2020, a 'Special Edition' "                       </span>
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