We provide here a quick overview of our activities and news in February 2017
New members in February: 8
Total members to date: 1458
IPv4 address space allocated in February: 361,216 /32s
Total IPv4 allocated to date: 100,157,696 /32s
IPv6 address space prefixes allocated in February : 5
Total IPv6 address space prefixes allocated to date: 641
ASNs assigned in February: 9
Total ASNs to date: 1,429
Izumi Okutani, Policy Liaison at the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) and active member of the APNIC community, talks about how she is helping women and girls get involved in ICT in the wider Asia Pacific Region and encourages women in tech in the African region to take the initiative to do the same.
Here's a quick overview of our activities and news in January 2017
New members in January: 10
Total members at year end 2016: 169
Total members to date: 1477
IPv4 address space allocated in January: 567,512 /32s
Total IPv4 allocated to date: 107,674,368/32s
IPv6 address space prefixes allocated in January: 5 (4 /32s and 1 /44)
ASNs assigned in January: 10
Total ASNs to date: 1,468
AFRINIC has selected 22 countries to host training workshops in 2017. For the first time ever, we'll be delivering courses in Guinea Conakry and Mozambique and will be returning to Burundi for the first time since 2009.
AFRINIC is one of Africa's leading technical capacity builders, training over 630 engineers in 18 African nations in 2016 alone. AFRINIC offers courses on Internet Number Resource Management (INRM) and IPv6 Deployment - one of the continent's most highly regarded IPv6 Forum (Gold) Certified courses. Courses are currently free of charge and are delivered in either French or English. Tailor-made courses are also offered to address the specific needs of governments, research and education networks and large service providers. Since 2004, AFRINIC has trained over 3,000 network engineers in 44 nations in its service region.
Read more: Is an AFRINIC Training Workshop Coming Your Way 2017?
Bibliotheque Le Pavillion Blanc - Library for the Blind - in Cameroon won the US$ 25,000 FIRE Africa Grant in 2016 in the Education category to further boost its work with the visually impaired throughout Cameroon. In this blogpost, Communications Officer, Lisette Emmanuelle WAFFO, tells us about her organisation, how the FIRE Africa Grant will contribute to its valuable work and talks about her trip to the AFRINIC-25 Meeting in 2016.
Read more: Our Dream Turns Into Reality: Library For the Blind
