[kictanet] Africa Internet Summit (AIS) : Workshop & Meetings 29thApril – 11thMay 2018

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,


Africa Internet Summit (AIS) Secretariat announces AfNOG’s program at
The Africa Internet Summit scheduled to be held in Dakar, SENEGAL from
29thApril – 11thMay 2018.

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
- AROC, AfCHIX, 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 – Workshop & Meeting
  *   ISOC Africa Sessions
  *   ICANN Africa Day
  *   AfCHix TechWomen Summit
  *   A one-day AfNOG Plenary Session
  *   A three-day AFRINIC Plenary Session.

In addition, several side meetings and workshops will be 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, CSIRTs Engineers
and Policy makers 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 is Ministère des Postes et des
Télécommunications, Senegal.

Venue & Hotel

This will be announced shortly.

Time Table

Workshop & Tutorials

Event   Date(s)
Unix Boot Camp  29 April 2018 (Sunday)<x-apple-data-detectors://0>
Networking Boot Camp    29 April 2018 (Sunday)<x-apple-data-detectors://1>
CERT Boot Camp  29 April 2018 (Sunday)<x-apple-data-detectors://2>
AfNOG Workshop  30 April - 4 May
2018<x-apple-data-detectors://3>(Monday -
Friday<x-apple-data-detectors://4>)
AfricaCERT Workshop     30 April - 4 May
2018<x-apple-data-detectors://5>(Monday -
Friday<x-apple-data-detectors://6>)
AfTLD - Workshop & Forum        30 April - 4 May
2018<x-apple-data-detectors://7>(Monday -
Friday<x-apple-data-detectors://8>)
AfCHIXTechWomen Summit  5 May 2018 (Saturday)<x-apple-data-detectors://9>
ICANN Day       5 May 2018 (Saturday)<x-apple-data-detectors://10>
AFRINIC Trainings       5 - 7 May
2018<x-apple-data-detectors://11>(Saturday -
Monday<x-apple-data-detectors://12>)
ICANN Special Workshop  6 May 2018 (Sunday)<x-apple-data-detectors://13>
AfNOG Tutorials 6 - 7 May 2018<x-apple-data-detectors://14>(Sunday -
Monday<x-apple-data-detectors://15>)
ISOC Africa Sessions    TBC

Conference

Event   Date(s)
Opening Session 7 May 2018<x-apple-data-detectors://16>(Monday at 5
pm<x-apple-data-detectors://17>)
AfREN Meeting / AAF     7 May 2018 (Monday)<x-apple-data-detectors://18>
AfNOG-19 Conference     8 May 2018  (Tuesday)<x-apple-data-detectors://19>
AFRINIC-28 Conference   9 - 11 May,
2018<x-apple-data-detectors://20>(Wednesday -
Friday<x-apple-data-detectors://21>)

About AfNOG

AfNOG (Seehttp://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 2017 in eighteen 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 eight parallel tracks: ( 5 English & 3
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.
  *   SS-F - Scalable Internet Services (en francais), similar to
track SS-E, but given in French.
  *   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.
  *   SI-F - Scalable Network Infrastructure (en francais), similar to
track SI-E, but given in French.
  *   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 – December 31, 2017<x-apple-data-detectors://25>

About AFRINIC

AFRINIC (Seehttp://www.afrinic.net/) is the Regional Internet Registry
for Africa headquartered in Ebene, Mauritius. It is responsible for
the distribution and management of Internet number resources (IP
address space and Autonomous System Numbers) in Africa and the Indian
Ocean region. AFRINIC ensures equitable and efficient distribution of
Internet number resources to the African Internet community to support
Internet governance, technology usage and development across the
continent.

Trainings and capacity building are a central part of AFRINIC’s
activities and the objective is to build competence within Africa in
IPv6 adoption as well as associated technologies required to use
internet number resources effectively. More on AFRINIC can be found at
(see<http://seewww.afrinic.net/><http://www.afrinic.net/>www.afrinic.net<http://seewww.afrinic.net/>).

AfricaCERT

AfricaCERT will hold a 6 day Workshop & Tutorial on CERT from
30thApril – 5thMay 2018 in Senegal. 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<https://afnog.org/www.africacert.org>www.africacert.org<http://www.africacert.orgfor/>for<http://www.africacert.orgfor/>further
information.

AfTLD – Workshop & Meeting

Africa Top Level Domains Organization will be conducting a Workshop &
Forum during AIS. Further information will be provided shortly.

ICANN AFRICA

ICANN Africa will be holding sessions on ICANN Day on
5<x-apple-data-detectors://30>th<x-apple-data-detectors://30> May
2018<x-apple-data-detectors://30> and ICANN Special Workshop on 6thMay
2018

ISOC AFRICA

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

AfCHIX

AfCHIX will be holding the second AfCHIX Tech Women Summit on
5<x-apple-data-detectors://31>th<x-apple-data-detectors://31> May
2018<x-apple-data-detectors://31>. 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 2018 Tutorials will be available
here shortly:
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2018/tutorial/

AfREN

The Africa Research and Education Networking  (AfREN) will  be holding
a one day meeting on 7thMay 2018.

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 2018 will be provided shortly.

AfNOG-19 Meeting

The 19thAfNOG meeting will be held in Dakar, Senegal on 8thMay 2018.

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 Kenya
drew several delegates, 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/afnog2018/conference/

AFRINIC-28 Public Policy Meeting

The AFRINIC-28 Public Policy meeting will be held in Dakar, Senegal
for three days from 9thto 11thMay, 2018. 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 IPv6 training and training
in Internet Number Resource Management.

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

Visa Requirements

Please check visa requirements with the Senegal Embassy or Consulate
in your country.

Please join us, once again, as we come together to learn, network and
shape the future of ICT in Africa.




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