[kictanet] Fwd: [ISOC] NEWS RELEASE: Internet Society Announces Fellows to Attend Internet Engineering Task Force Meeting in Vancouver

[Philip Adar]

Congrats to Paul and Dorcas for being chosen to participate at IETF meeting
in Canada .

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Internet Society Announces Fellows to Attend Internet Engineering Task
Force Meeting in Vancouver

Eleven technologists receive fellowships to build skills, share expertise,
and network with IETF community

[Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland] -- The Internet Society today
announced that it has awarded new and returning fellowships to eleven
highly-skilled engineers to attend the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) meeting held 29 July – 3 August in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada.

The Internet Society awards fellowships to enable technologists from
developing countries to participate in the IETF meetings. First-time
fellows are paired with an experienced mentor and are given the opportunity
to make a positive contribution to IETF work. The IETF, the Internet’s
premier standards-making body, represents an international community of
network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the
technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of
Internet architecture.

“The Internet Society has a long-standing commitment to encourage and
support next–generation technical leaders from around the globe,” said
Toral Cowieson, Senior Director of Internet Leadership at the Internet
Society. “This round of IETF Fellowships garnered more than 250 impressive
applications from 65 countries. We are excited to help accelerate the
careers of these professionals and to provide an opportunity for them to
participate in and contribute to the important work of the IETF.”

The first-time Internet Society IETF Fellows for the IETF 84 meeting are:

Shabbir Ahmed (Bangladesh) is an associate professor at the University of
Dhaka. Prior to that, Shabbir worked as a system administrator of the ISP
division of Drik Picture Library. Current research interests include
routing issues of Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANET), Delay Tolerant Networks
(DTN), and deployment of IPv6.

Raitme Citterio (Venezuela) is a graduate of Universidad Centroccidental
Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA) in Venezuela where he studied computer
engineering.  His specialty is management and development of online
knowledge and learning communities.  Raitme is interested in many areas of
the IETF, including Web Security (websec), Home Networking (homenet), and
IPv6 (6man, 6lowpan, 6renum, and v6ops).

Xiaohong Deng (China) is a research engineer and technical leader,
specifically focused on IPv6 transitioning, in Orange Lab (France Telecom
R&D) in Beijing, China. Her participation and contributions to IETF
includes PCP, IPv6, softwires and mbond.

Omar Diaz (Venezuela) is a student at the University of The Andes -
Venezuela. He is in the Master’s programme for computer science with an
emphasis on telecommunications. His interests include TCP and related
groups such as ICCRG, MPTCP, and LEDBAT.

Paul Muchene (Kenya) is a software entrepreneur and the technical lead at
iHub in Nairobi. Paul recently joined the IETF IPv6 maintenance (6Man) and
DNSSEC (dnsext) working group mailing lists, and his core areas of interest
are DNS operations, DNSSEC, and IPv6 transitioning.

Nomsa Muswai (Zimbabwe) is a Network Engineer at ZOL, which is part of the
Liquid Telecommunications group in Zimbabwe. Nomsa is particularly
interested in broadening knowledge and participation in the following
areas: MPLS routing, IPv6 migration implementation, and 3-P2P, Layer 2&3
VPN, particularly in MPLS.

Saurabh Srivastava (India) works with NEC India in Mumbai, India and
previously worked with Tata Communications.  Focus areas include routing
protocols (mainly OSPF and BGP), MPLS VPN, QoS issues, and IPv6 migration
issues.

The Returning Fellows for the 84th IETF meeting are:

Burmaa Baasansuren (Mongolia)

Fernando Gont (Argentina)

Vinayak Hegde (India)

Dorcas Muthoni (Kenya)

The Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF in 2012 are made possible by
donations from Internet Society Organization members Afilias, Google,
Microsoft, SIDN, and Verisign. Since its inception in 2006, this programme
has made 125 awards to technologists from more than 40 developing countries
to participate in IETF meetings.

Link:
http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-announces-fellows-attend-internet-engineering-task-force-meeting-vancouver


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Regards

Philip Adar
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