[governance] Fwd: [AfriNIC-announce] Alice Munuya Winner of the NI&I Service Award!!

Thu Dec 1 10:25:06 EST 2011

Congratulations Alice!  This is really fantastic news..and definitely
well deserved.. and it makes all of us at APC really proud.

Anriette

On 30/11/11 03:02, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> Wow, really wonderful news! Well, well deserved, Alice!
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> On 11/28/2011 12:07 PM, McTim wrote:
>> FYI:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Babusha Radhakissoon <babusha at afrinic.net>
>> Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:57 PM
>> Subject: [AfriNIC-announce] Alice Munuya Winner of the NI&I Service Award!!
>> To: announce at afrinic.net
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Please see herewith the press release for the 2011 NI&I Service Award,
>> for your perusal.
>>
>> "Alice Munuya awarded the 2011 NI&I Service Award "
>>
>> Yaounde, 25 November 2011 - The 3rd Network Information and
>> Infrastructure Service Award has been awarded to Alice Munuya 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.
>>
>> For Dr. Nii, Quaynor the initiator of the Award, "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 "
>>
>> 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). "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." says Alice
>> Munyua.
>>
>> Besides the main NI&I Award, a Young professional Award was also given
>> to Jean Robert Hountomey 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.
>>
>> "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." says Adiel Akplogan, CEO of AfriNIC and recipient of the
>> first NI&I Service Award.
>>
>> The Network Information & Infrastructure (NI&I) 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. www.niiserviceaward.org
>>
>> The African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) 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.
>> www.afrinic.net
>>
>> The Africa Network Operators Group (AfNOG) 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 www.afnog.org
>>
>> Regards,
>> The AfriNIC Meeting Team
>>
>> AfriNIC | 11th Floor| Raffles Tower | Cybercity | Mauritius
>> Tel: +230 403 5100 |Fax: +230 466 6758
>>
>> Join us at AfriNIC-15 in Cameroon, 19-25 November 2011
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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