[kictanet] Africa Internet Summit and Africa Network Operators Group 21 May - 2 June 2017 , Nairobi Kenya - Reminder Register

Wed Jan 11 20:35:25 EAT 2017

Listers,

Please find below the Announcement for AfNOG 2017 to be held in
Nairobi - KENYA, from 21st May -  2 June 2017.
Africa Top Level Domains Organization will organize a train the
trainers Programme for ccTLD operators during the summit. In
conjunction with the local registry and other stakeholders we will
also have special sessions for registrars and resellers to build their
capacity in the Domain Name Business.

Please note Deadline for receipt of Applications is 21 January, 2017.
Register as soon as possible

Best Regards

Barrack Otieno

AFTLD Secretariat

AIS 2017 - AfNOG ANNOUNCEMENT  - ENGLISH

Africa Internet Summit (AIS) : Workshop & Meetings 21st May – 2nd June 2017

Africa Internet Summit (AIS) Secretariat announces AfNOG’s program at
The Africa Internet Summit scheduled to be held in Nairobi, KENYA from
21st May to 2nd June 2017.

AIS is the pinnacle multi-stakeholder event combining, workshops,
conferences and networking for the internet Industry. The annual
summit attracts internationally renowned Instructors, Experts and
Speakers to share the latest innovations and Best practices in the
Internet industry. This is the place where the African Technical
Institutions and Af* such as AfNOG, AFRINIC, AfREN, AfricaCERT, AfTLD
, ISOC Africa, AfrICANN, AfGWG etc meet.

Meeting the needs of the Africa Internet Community

AIS aims at meeting the ever-changing needs of the ICT Industry and
includes the core IP Engineering as well as integrating the real world
use and impact of IP Technologies. Sessions include technical and
business aspects of the Internet : ie Capacity Building,
Infrastructure, Security, Policy, Content & Names, Internet Numbers
and Research.

About the Entire Event

Event Calendar include the following:

    AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training
in a week-long hands-on workshop)
    Several one /two full-day Advanced AfNOG Tutorials
    AfricaCERT Workshop & Forums
    AFRINIC Trainings
    AfREN Forum
    AfTLD – Train the Trainers Workshop and Member Meeting
    ISOC Africa Sessions
    ICANN Africa Day
    A one-day AfNOG Plenary Session
    A three-day AFRINIC Plenary Session.

In addition, several side meetings and workshops were hosted in
collaboration with other organizations.

Who Attends?

A broad range of ICT Industry leaders and technical experts including
Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Engineers who wish to
acquire the necessary skills in ICT, Government, Regulators,
Telecommunication companies and ICT vendors. It is a good opportunity
for networking among peers and businesses.

Why Attend?

The AIS addresses the current and future needs of operators in the ICT
Industry It is focused on popular and emerging ICT Industries such as
Cyber Security, Mobile Networking among other.
 It features discussions on a wide range of issues of the Internet
including the current and newest trends in ICT.
Industry experts will be participating in conference sessions from
thought-provoking and visionary keynote presentations to interactive
panel sessions, all addressing the most pressing topics

Local Host

The Local Hosts for the Event are TESPOK

Venue & Hotel

This will be announced soon.

Time Table

Workshop & Tutorials

Event

Date(s)

Unix Boot Camp

21 May 2017 (Sunday)

Networking Boot Camp

21 May 2017 (Sunday)

AfNOG Workshop

22 - 26 May 2017 (Monday - Friday)

AfricaCERT Workshop

22 - 26 May 2017 (Monday - Friday)

AfTLD - Train the Trainers Workshop and Members Meeting

22 - 26 May 2017 (Monday - Friday)
AFRINIC Trainings
27 - 29 May 2017 (Saturday - Monday)

AfNOG Tutorials

28 - 29 May 2017 (Sunday - Monday)

ISOC Africa Sessions

28 May 2017 (Sunday)

Conference

Event

Date(s)

Opening Session

29 May 2017 (Monday at 5 pm)

AfREN Meeting / AAF

29 May 2017 (Monday)

AfNOG-18 Conference

30 May 2017  (Tuesday)

AFRINIC-26 Conference

31 May - 2 June, 2017 (Wednesday - Friday)

About AfNOG

AfNOG (See http://www.afnog.org/) is a forum for cooperation and the
exchange of technical information between operators of
Internet-connected networks in Africa. AfNOG aims at building a
community of engineers helping each other operate Internet
Infrastructure in Africa, and on the Global Internet as well as
promote the discussion of issues relating to implementation of new
networks that require community cooperation.

AfNOG has since year 2000 organized their annual Event in a different
African country each year.

“While AfNOG fuels the rapid growth of the Internet in Africa with
trained technical capacity, our content has been determined by the
needs of the community. In so doing AfNOG’s output training capacity
has multiplied in the past decade and the community flourished”

AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology

The AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology aims to offer advanced
training to people who are in the process of developing and enhancing
an Internet-connected network with regional and international
connectivity. The target audience includes senior and mid-level
technical staff of commercial Internet service providers (ISPs),
academic networks, government networks, or NGO networks.

This workshop builds on the experience of previous AfNOG workshops
held annually from 2000 to 2016 in seventeen different African
countries, and also the Internet Society's INET workshops, held
annually from 1993 to 2000 at eight locations around the world. The
workshop's Instructors are an international team with many years of
experience in operating large networks and teaching about network
operations.

The workshop is divided into six parallel tracks: ( 5 English & 1 French Tracks)

    SS-E Scalable Internet Services (in English), focused on the
design and operation of email, web, and other Internet services, in
ways that can scale to handle large numbers of end users.
    SI-E - Scalable Network Infrastructure (in English), focused on
the design and operation of networks using routers and switches, in
ways that can scale to handle large numbers of interconnected sites.
    NM – E, Network Monitoring & Management (English)
    NM-F,  Network Monitoring & Management (en francais), similar to
track NM-E, but given in French.
    AR –E, Advanced Routing Techniques (English)
    CT- E, CERT Training (English)

Workshop application information is at : English:
http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_en.php

French: http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_fr.php

   **Workshop Deadline – January 21, 2017 **

About AFRINIC

AFRINIC (See http://www.afrinic.net/) AFRINIC has been set up to serve
the African community by providing professional and efficient
management of Internet Number Resources, supporting Internet
technology usage and development, and promoting a participative and
multi-stakeholder approach to Internet self governance.

AFRINIC is a non-government, not-for-profit, membership based
organization, based in Mauritius. Trainings and capacity building are
a central part of AFRINIC’s activities and our objective is to build
competence within our region in IPv6 implementation and associated
technologies required to use our resources effectively and to increase
awareness within the service region on how Internet is governed and
the roles organisations have in this environment. AFRINIC organizes
two Public Policy meetings every year (see
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting).

AfricaCERT

AfricaCERT will hold a 6 day Workshop & Tutorial on CERT from 22nd –
27th May 2017 in Kenya. AfricaCERT is the African forum of computer
incident response teams, and aims to propose solutions to Challenges
for a better health in the Af* Internet Ecosystem.

The objectives of AfricaCERT include, but are not restricted to :

    Assisting African countries in establishing CSIRTs;
    Strengthening the relationships amongst CSIRTs in Africa and with
other stakeholders all over the World;
    Fostering and supporting education and outreach programs in ICT Security;
    Encouraging information sharing in ICT Security;
    Promoting good practices and experiences sharing among members to
develop a comprehensive framework for cybersecurity including better
addressing of legal and regulatory issues;
    Assisting African CSIRTS in improving Cyber readiness and
enhancing the resilience of ICT Infrastructure;
    Promoting Collaborative Technology Research, Development and
Innovation in the ICT security field.

Please visit www.africacert.org for further information.

AfTLD –  Train the Trainers Course and Members Meeting

www.aftld.org

Africa Top Level Domains Organization will be conducting a a train the
trainers workshop as well as have its members meetinh from 22nd to
26th May 2017.

ISOC AFRICA

ISOC Africa will be holding sessions/tutorials on Internet Governance,
etc. on 28th May 2017. Further information will be provided shortly.

AfNOG Tutorials

AfNOG will offer 1 to 2 full-day(s) tutorials on advanced topics.

Tutorials take place in a classroom-style environment, and may include
a hands-on practical component. Tutorials are non-commercial in
nature, and most are technically oriented. They are intended to offer
advanced training on technology already deployed or soon to be
deployed on networking and related services provisioning for ISP
operations.

Additional information about AfNOG 2017 Tutorials will be available
here shortly: http://www.afnog.org/afnog2017/tutorial/

AfREN

The Africa Research and Education Networking  (AfREN) will  be holding
a one day meeting on 29th May 2017.

AfREN is the annual forum on African research and education
networking. As one of the Af* organizations, the AfREN forum is part
of the annual Africa Internet Summit (AIS) and was convened since 2007
by the Research and Education Networking Unit (RENU) of the
Association of African Universities in collaboration with AfNOG &
AFRINIC.

The forum is a platform for discussions on issues of interest to the
research and education networking (REN) community such as
collaboration, advocacy and coordination of activities in Africa.
Sharing of experience and best practices as well as presentation of
innovative networking technologies are also regularly addressed at
AfREN.

The sponsorship of campus network managers to attend the annual AfNOG
training workshops has also become an integral part of AfREN.

Since 2012, with the formation of regional RENs covering all the
countries of Africa, there is a traditional session on updates from
the UbuntuNet Alliance (Eastern and Southern Africa), WACREN (West and
Central Africa) and ASREN (Arab countries, including North Africa).

Typical AfREN participants include among others, campus and research
and education network practitioners, REN operators, telecom operators,
regulators, policy makers and international partners.

Additional information on AfREN 2017 will be provided shortly.

AfNOG-18 Meeting

The 17th AfNOG meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on 30th May
2017. AfNOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and
dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise
networking technologies and operational practices. The meetings are
informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current and future African
backbone engineering practices. The AfNOG 2017 conference in Tunisia
drew over 500 participants, mainly consisting of network engineering
staff from lnternet Service providers, Telecommunication Companies,
Government, Research and Education community, Civil Society.
Additional information and the Conference schedule will be available
here shortly: http://www.afnog.org/afnog2017/conference/

AFRINIC-26 Public Policy Meeting

The AFRINIC-24 Public Policy meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya
for three days from 31st to 2nd June, 2017. AFRINIC Meetings are open
to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity to take part in
Internet policy discussions. These policies, which describe how
Internet Number Resources should be managed and distributed, are
developed by the community. The meeting will include tutorials,
presentations, update on the various working groups and the AFRINIC
Public Policy Meeting. The three day meeting will be preceded by a
two-day IPv6 training and one day training in Internet Number Resource
Management. The meeting will focus on the IPv6 protocol and its
deployment, especially in Africa and the issue of the exhaustion of
the IPv4 pool of address space.

Further information will be available at
http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/afrinic-events.

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