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<body><div>Listers,</div><div><br></div><div><p><strong><u>AFRICA INTERNET SUMMIT (AIS) 2020 – WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES </u></strong></p><p><strong><u>AFRICAN NETWORK OPERATORS GROUP (AfNOG)</u></strong><br> <br>
Africa Internet Summit (AIS) Secretariat announces AfNOG’s program at
The Africa Internet Summit scheduled to be held in Kinshasa, DRC from 31<sup style="line-height:0">st</sup> May – 12<sup style="line-height:0">th</sup> June 2020.</p><p>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, REN Africa, AfricaCERT, AfTLD –AROC, AfCHIX
, ISOC Africa, AfrICANN, AfGWG etc meet.</p><p><u><br> <strong>Meeting the needs of the Africa Internet Community:</strong></u></p><p><br>
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.</p><p><u><br> <strong>About the Entire Event</strong> :</u></p><p><br> Event Calendar include the following:</p><ul><li>AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop)<br> • Several one /two full-day Advanced AfNOG Tutorials<br> • AfricaCERT Workshop & Forums<br> • AFRINIC Trainings<br> • AfREN Forum<br> • AfTLD – Workshop & Forum<br> • ISOC Africa Sessions <br> • ICANN Africa Day</li><li>* AfChixTechWomen Summit<br> • A one-day AfNOG Plenary Session <br> • A three-day AFRINIC Plenary Session. </li></ul><p><br> In addition, several side meetings and workshops will be hosted in collaboration with other organizations.</p><p><br> <strong><u>Who Attends?</u></strong></p><p><br>
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.</p><p><strong><br> <u>Why Attend?</u></strong></p><ul><li>The AIS addresses the current and future needs of operators in the ICT Industry<br> • It is focused on popular and emerging ICT Industries such as Cyber Security, Mobile Networking among other.<br> • It features discussions on a wide range of issues of the Internet including the current and newest trends in ICT.<br>
• 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</li></ul><p><br> <strong><u>LOCAL HOST</u> : </strong>ISPA - DRC</p><p><u><br> <strong>TIME TABLE</strong></u></p><p><strong><u><br> Workshop & Tutorials - Event Date(s)</u></strong></p><p><br> Unix Boot Camp 31 May 2020 (Sunday)</p><p>Networking Boot Camp 31 May 2020 (Sunday) <wbr> CERT Boot Camp 31 May 2020 (Sunday)<br> AfNOG Workshop 1 - 5 June 2020 (Monday - Friday)<br> AfricaCERT Workshop 1 - 5 June 2020 (Monday - Friday)<br> AfTLD – Workshop & Forum TBC<br> AFRINIC Trainings TBC</p><p>AfCHIX TechWomen Summit 6 June 2020 (Saturday)<br> AfNOG Tutorials 6 – 8 June 2020 (Sunday - Monday)<br> <br></p><p><strong><u>Forums & Conference : Event Date(s)</u></strong></p><p>ISOC Africa Sessions TBC <wbr> </p><p>ICANN Africa Day 7 June 2020 </p><p>Opening Session 8 June 2020 (Monday at 5 pm) </p><p>REN Africa Tech Session 8 June 2020 </p><p> AfREN Meeting <wbr> TBC <wbr> <wbr> </p><p> AfNOG-21 Conference 9 June 2020 <wbr> </p><p> AFRINIC-31 Conference 10 – 12 June 2020</p><p><strong><br> <u>About AfNOG</u></strong></p><p><br> AfNOG (See <a href="http://www.afnog.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.afnog.org/&source=gmail&ust=1572669859336000&usg=AFQjCNEAMhU6Dhz3ynhxxy1zJU4E7mhQiA">http://www.afnog.org/</a>)
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.</p><p><br> AfNOG has since year 2000 organized their annual Event in a different African country each year.</p><p><br> <em>“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”</em></p><p><br> <strong><u>AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology :</u></strong></p><p><br>
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.</p><p><br> This
workshop builds on the experience of previous AfNOG workshops held
annually from 2000 to 2019 in Twenty 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.</p><p><strong><u>AfNOG 2020 Workshop Tracks</u></strong></p><p>This year’s workshop is divided into Eight parallel Tracks: ( 5 English & 3 French Tracks).</p><ol><li>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. </li><li>SS-F - Internet évolutives (enfrancais), similar to track SS-E, but given in French. </li><li>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.</li><li>SI-F, Infrastructure Reseaux IP (enfrancais), similar to track SI-E, but given in French. </li><li>NM – E, Network Monitoring & Management (English) </li><li>NM-F, suivi et gestion de réseaux (enfrancais), similar to track NM-E, but given in French. </li><li>AR –E, Advanced Routing Techniques (English) </li><li>CT- E, CERT Training (English)</li></ol><p><br> <strong>Workshop application information is at :</strong></p><p><br> English: <a href="http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_en.php" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_en.php&source=gmail&ust=1572669859336000&usg=AFQjCNE6D3pZ3bsSlFmj1nUDysA6A14LSQ">http://www.afnog.org/<wbr>applications/online_<wbr>application_en.php</a><br> French: <a href="http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_fr.php" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.afnog.org/applications/online_application_fr.php&source=gmail&ust=1572669859336000&usg=AFQjCNEeCaSXmJt8YYTQ1SxB7fcA9FkDAQ">http://www.afnog.org/<wbr>applications/online_<wbr>application_fr.php</a><br> <br> <strong>**Workshop Application Deadline – 15<sup style="line-height:0">th</sup> Jan, 2020 </strong></p><p><br> <strong><u>About AFRINIC</u></strong></p><p>AFRINIC
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.</p><p>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 <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.afrinic.net/&source=gmail&ust=1572669859336000&usg=AFQjCNFmiTnAorNKVmtEgWa2Y11fk9qXhQ">www.afrinic.net</a>.</p><p><strong><u>AfricaCERT</u></strong></p><p><br>
AfricaCERT will hold a 6 day Workshop & Tutorial on CSIRT
Operations from 1 to 5 June 2020 in Kinshasa, DRC. 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.</p><p><br> The objectives of AfricaCERT include, but are not restricted to :</p><ul><li><br> Assisting African countries in establishing CSIRTs;<br> • Strengthening the relationships amongst CSIRTs in Africa and with other stakeholders all over the World;<br> • Fostering and supporting education and outreach programs in ICT Security; <br> • Encouraging information sharing in ICT Security; <br>
• Promoting good practices and experiences sharing among members to
develop a comprehensive framework for cybersecurity including better
addressing of legal and regulatory issues;<br> • Assisting African CSIRTS in improving Cyber readiness and enhancing the resilience of ICT Infrastructure; <br> • Promoting Collaborative Technology Research, Development and Innovation in the ICT security field.</li></ul><p><br> Please visit <a href="http://www.africacert.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.africacert.org/&source=gmail&ust=1572669859336000&usg=AFQjCNG57X9Kn08xLu0GHP5WGBV8sS6vQQ">www.africacert.org</a> for further information.</p><p><strong><u>AfTLD – AROC Workshop & Meeting</u></strong></p><p>Africa
Top Level Domains Organization (AFTLD) will be conducting a Train the
Trainer Session during AIS 2020. Further information will be provided
shortly.</p><p><strong><u>ICANN Africa</u></strong></p><p>ICANN Africa
will be holding ICANN.Day. ICANN DAY is an annual full day event taking
place during the Africa Internet Summit. Participants will get an
update on ICANN’s current area of work, latest discussions on policy
development and update on the implementation of the Africa Strategy
Further information will be provided shortly.</p><p><strong><u>ISOC AFRICA</u></strong><br> ISOC Africa will be holding Hackathon /sessions on Internet Governance, etc. Further information will be provided shortly.</p><p><strong>AfCHIX</strong><br> AfCHIX will be holding the Fourth AfCHIX Tech Women Summit on 6<sup style="line-height:0">th</sup> June, 2020. Further information will be provided shortly.</p><p><strong><u>AfNOG Tutorials</u></strong></p><p>AfNOG will offer 1 to 2 full-day(s) tutorials on advanced topics. <br>
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.</p><p><br> Additional information about AfNOG 2020 Tutorials will be available here shortly: <br> <u><a href="http://www.afnog.org/afnog2020/tutorial/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.afnog.org/afnog2020/tutorial/&source=gmail&ust=1572669859336000&usg=AFQjCNFgWpYIm2Sj3WelLhvTvhTlw71_YA">http://www.afnog.org/<wbr>afnog2020/tutorial/</a></u></p><p><br> <strong><u>REN Africa</u></strong><br> Research and Education Network, Africa will be holding a one day meeting on 8th June 2019.</p><p><br>
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. <br> Additional information on REN Africa 2020 will be provided shortly.</p><p><br> <strong><u>AfNOG - 2020 Conference </u></strong></p><p><br> The 21<sup style="line-height:0">st</sup> AfNOG Conference will be held in Kinshasa DRC, on 9th June 2020.</p><p>AfNOG
conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of
technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking
technologies and operational practices. The conferences are informal,
with an emphasis on relevance to current and future African backbone
engineering practices. The AfNOG 2020 conference in Uganda 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:<br> <u><a href="http://www.afnog.org/afnog2020/conference/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.afnog.org/afnog2020/conference/&source=gmail&ust=1572669859336000&usg=AFQjCNGWdqxkjuSlXUWWtgICZo4hGDAk6w">http://www.afnog.org/<wbr>afnog2020/conference/</a></u></p><p><br> <strong>AFRINIC-32 Public Policy Meeting</strong></p><p><br> The AFRINIC-32 Public Policy meeting will be held in Kinshasa, DRC for three days from 10th – 12<sup style="line-height:0">th</sup>
June, 2020. 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 various training sessions.</p><p><br> <em>Please join us, once again, as we come together to learn, network and shape the future of ICT in Africa!!</em></p></div>
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Best regards<br>
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Barrack Otieno<br>
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