the african network operators’ group 11 years of building africa’s capacity hong kong, february...
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The African Network Operators’ Group
11 Years of Building Africa’s Capacity
Hong Kong,
February 15 – 25, 2011
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Agenda
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ObjectivesA Brief HistoryCommunication MechanismsParticipant BackgroundChallengesAchievementsAcknowledgements
Objectives
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AfNOG is a forum for technical coordination and cooperation among African Internet service providers and network operators
The aim is to build a community of engineers to help each other operating Internet Infrastructure in Africa, and on the Global Internet.
Objectives ( contd. )
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To train people and groups of people who will return to their country and region and who will teach others what they have learned at the workshop.
To build links between all participants so that the peer-to-peer relationships formed during the workshop and conferences will remain strong well beyond the workshop and conference.
Brief History
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Founded in 1999First meeting in Cape Town, 2000Since then, annual Workshop & meetings at:
Hosts Host Countries YearCequrux Cape Town, South Africa 2000NCS Accra, Ghana 2001TRS/CAFE Lome, Togo 2002One2Net Kampala, Uganda 2003ISOC Senegal Dakar, Senegal 2004MICTI/CIUEM Maputo, Mozambique 2005KENIC/KENET Nairobi, Kenya 2006NgForum Abuja, Nigeria 2007EMI / CNRST Rabat, Morocco 2008 NTRA/MCIT Cairo, Egypt 2009RDB/RICTA Kigali, Rwanda 2010
AfNOG-12 and AfriNIC-14: May 29 –10 June, 2011
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Brief History ( contd. )
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Each meeting consists of:Technical sessions (AfNOG Tutorial and Meeting)Hands-on workshop training
Workshop traces roots to the ISOC's annual INET Network Training Workshop model
AfNOG Workshop Tracks as at 2010
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Track SA-E: Unix System Administration
Track SS-E: Scalable Internet Services
Track SI-E: Scalable Network Infrastructure
Language Diversity introduced in 2002
Track SI-F: Infrastructure Reseaux IP (Atelier SI-E en Français)
AfNOG “Track E0” Localization Program
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A collaboration between ISOC, NSRC and AfNOG
Project aimed at migrating the “AfNOG Track E0” Unix/Linux System Administration Course to be taught at country level.
Instituted in 2008 and has been run in several African countries since and ongoing.
Track E0 now SA-E will no longer be taught at the main Annual AfNOG Event
New Workshop Tracks - 2011
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To be started at AfNOG 2011 Workshop in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in 29 May – 10 June 2011
Network Monitoring & Management
Advanced Routing Techniques
Computer Emergency Response Team
Internet Service Providers Telco Operators Government NGOs Educational & Research Institutions
Participants Background
Communication mechanisms
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(Annual) Workshop & Meeting
Mailing list: [email protected]
Websites:www.afnog.orgwww.ws.afnog.org
Challenges
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Identifying next years Local HostTimely preparation for the eventCatering for language diversityFunding for workshops & meetingsLogistics: People & EquipmentEnsuring continuityWorkshops & MeetingsOutreach
AfNOG Chix Program
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Our Gender Program on Unix Systems Administration for female Network Engineers.
Several female Network Engineers have been trained
Event has so far been held in 4 countriesMarch 2007 – Nairobi, KenyaOct 2008 – Accra, GhanaOct 2009 - Gaborone BotswanaOct 2010 - Nairobi, Kenya
Achievements
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Built community of African Network Operators helping themselves with challenges (African & Globally)
Eleven workshops & meetings in 11 different countries covering Four sub-regionsCountries represented include Angola, Benin,
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo Republic, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo Republic, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
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Trained over 2,500 Internet engineers Many from Educational and research institutions and
govt
Former students are now Instructors Building new curriculum based on needs in the
African region New tracks progressively added to cater for training
needs
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Very successful and active Mailing list.
Co-locate Annual Event with other ICT related Events as ffs:AFRINICAFTLDAFRENAFRISPAINET AFRICA