<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Apologies for cross-posting. <br><br>Good opportunity for telcos, academia, content managers to share their experiences...a while back we had an excellent presentation from Safaricom by one Gitau...maybe others would follow. Unfortuntately very little from Academia - i wonder what East African ICT Faculties research on :-(<br><br>walu.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 1/16/12, Babusha Radhakissoon <i><babusha@afrinic.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Babusha Radhakissoon <babusha@afrinic.net><br>Subject: [afnog] Af -16 Call for Proposal is now open!<br>To: afnog@afnog.org<br>Date: Monday, January 16, 2012, 2:33 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>The AfriNIC-16 and AfNOG-13 event will take place in Serrekunda, The<br>Gambia from
6 to 18 May 2012.This is your call to present at AfriNIC-16<br>Public Policy meeting (16 to 18 May 2012) and join other presenters to<br>deliver tools, knowledge and know-how or policy ideas related to<br>Internet Number Resource Management or IP networking operations to<br>participants.<br><br>The AfriNIC/ AfNOG event in 2011 in Dar es Salaam attracted over 200<br>international participants with 44 % being engineers from the ICT industry.<br><br><br>Should you have an interest for presenting at our meeting, lease send us<br>your proposals to discuss relevant topics to this specific audience.Your<br>contribution can be in the form of a presentation, a tutorial or a live<br>technical demonstration. Find below the submission instructions.<br><br>How to submit:<br><br><br>Your proposal should contain the following information:<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>* Full Name<br>* Email Address<br>*
Affiliation<br>* Short biography<br>* Title of Presentation<br>* A detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation<br>* Draft slides for the presentation (if ready/available)<br>* Length of talk (minutes/hours/days)<br>* Need (or not) for sponsorship or assistance to attend the meeting<br>(travel and/or accommodation, etc)<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Please review all information provided before submitting your proposal<br>to: <a ymailto="mailto:meeting@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=meeting@afrinic.net">meeting@afrinic.net</a><mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:meeting@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=meeting@afrinic.net">meeting@afrinic.net</a>><br><br>Important Dates:<br><br><br>* Deadline for submissions – 15 February 2012<br>* Meeting Registration opens – 20 February 2012<br>* Notification of Acceptance – 2 March 2012<br>* AfriNIC-16 Meeting – 12 to 18 May
2012<br><br>Guidelines:<br><br>Presentation topics can range from but are not exclusive to:<br><br>- IPv6 deployment<br>- Cyber Security<br>- Internet Peering and Routing<br>- Mobile IP<br>- IXP<br>- DNSSEC<br><br>- RPKI<br><br><br>* Presentations will be fifteen (15) to thirty (30) minutes in length,<br>with approximately 10-15 minutes for Q&A at the end of each<br>presentation. The maximum time allotted per presentation is 45 minutes.<br>The presenter(s) will be required to submit their presentation in<br>PowerPoint two (2) weeks prior to the event date.<br><br>* Tutorials can range from 90 minutes to half a day in length. A full<br>course outline is required.<br><br>* Demonstration facilities will need to be agreed based on available<br>resources on-site.<br><br>* AfriNIC will provide the space, tea/lunch breaks and projector equipment.<br><br>* Presenters will be responsible for any handouts. There are typically<br>approximately 100-150
delegates.<br><br>* All presentations will be delivered with the highest professionalism<br>to maximize the value obtained by the attendee.<br><br>* The Meeting Coordination team and the program Committee will make the<br>selection decisions.<br><br>* Selected presenters will be contacted by the Event Coordinator and<br>Presenter Liaison to coordinate logistics and details regarding your<br>presentation.<br><br>* The audience at AfriNIC meetings is mainly composed of technical<br>network operators and engineers with a wide range of experience levels<br>from beginners to seasoned professionals.<br><br>* Presentations that contain any sort of marketing and commercial<br>content are usually not encouraged at such meetings.<br><br><br>*Exhibition opportunities for our sponsors *<br><br>We are currently seeking sponsors for our event. Use this opportunity to<br>maximize your brand exposure. For further details regarding the<br>different sponsorship packages,
please contact Diane on<br><a ymailto="mailto:sponsorship@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=sponsorship@afrinic.net">sponsorship@afrinic.net</a><mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:sponsorship@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=sponsorship@afrinic.net">sponsorship@afrinic.net</a>><br><br>We look forward to your proposal.<br><br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>The AfriNIC Meeting team<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>afnog mailing list<br><a href="http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog" target="_blank">http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>