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

Tue Nov 29 09:36:43 EST 2011

Congrats Alice!
Jacqueline A. Morris
Technology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and
Free. (after Chris Lehmann )

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI:
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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
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>
> 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
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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