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

[McTim]

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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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Cheers,

McTim
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