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AFRINIC Archive

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 1235 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
News
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Selected Countries for AFRINIC Training in 2017

13 February 2017- Further to our Call for Local Hosts for 2017 AFRINIC Training Workshops, we are pleased to announce the list of selected host countries:    Central Africa East Afr read more..

Blog (EN)
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Our Dream Turns Into Reality: Library For the Blind

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 ... read more..

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NomCom 2017 Call for Volunteers

31 January 2016 - The AFRINIC Board is required to appoint a Nomination Committee (NomCom) every year.  I hereby call for volunteers from the community to fill three open positions on the 20... read more..

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Call for Fellowships AFRINIC-26 is Now Open

31 January 2017 - AFRINIC is offering fellowships for the AFRINIC-26 meeting to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 27 May to 2 June 2017. The fellowship is reserved for individuals representing small ... read more..

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AFRINIC and Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA) Academy Sign MoU

30 January 2017 - Alan Barrett, AFRINIC CEO, and Sikiru A. Shehu, Dean NiRA Academy, signed an MoU to develop and certify skills in Internet Number Resources Management and IPv6 through... read more..

Blog (EN)
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Project Isizwe's Mexican Adventure

Tim Human,  Marketing and Content Manager at Project Isizwe - Zulu for 'tribe' or 'nation' -, travelled to Mexico to attend the IGF16 as part of the FIRE Africa Award his... read more..

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AFRINIC Team Attends Capacity Building Workshop for the Africa Government Advisory Committee (GAC) in Kenya

Workshop led by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in collaboration with the Communications Authority of Kenya will explore ways to increase African Government Participati... read more..

Blog (EN)
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D.R.C: Arsene Tungali, a Fellow Profile

Based in Goma (DRC), Arsene is a 27 year-old social entrepreneur. Arsene manages a humanitarian NGO that specialises in providing education to children affected by war. He is also a Consultant on Inte... read more..

Blog (EN)
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Fellow Profile: Arsene Tungali

Based in Goma (DR Congo), Arsene is a 27 year-old social entrepreneur. Arsene manages a humanitarian NGO that specialises in providing education to children affected by war. He is also a Consultant on... read more..

News
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AFRINIC is Approaching IPv4 Exhaustion Phase 1

16 January 2017 - The AFRINIC IPv4 inventory will soon reach a point where the "Current Phase" will end, and "Exhaustion Phase 1" of the IPv4 Soft Landing policy will begin. This is an updat read more..

Blog (EN)
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2016 - A Year in Review

Members IPv4 IPv6 169 New Members in 2016.1,441 Total Members. 11,780,096 /32s of IPv4 address space distributed in 2016.99,215,616 /32s of IPv4 address space distr read more..

Blog (EN)
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Making Connections: All Girls Tech Camps in The Gambia

Alieu Sowe, from the Give1Project Gambia, talks about his project, All Girls Tech Camp, which received the FIRE Africa Google Award in 2016, and his recent trip to the Internet Gov... read more..

Blog (EN)
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My FIRE Africa Awards Experience #IGF2016

2016 FIRE Award winner Caleb Ndaka travelled to Guadalajara, Mexico, to attend the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to attend the Seed Alliance Award Ceremony and to promote his pro... read more..

Blog (EN)
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AFCHIX - Boosting the Pipeline Of Women In Technology

In 2016, AFCHIX won the FIRE Africa Community Development Grant. In this blog post AFCHIX Programs Coordinator Lillian Achom talks about finding out that her organisation had ... read more..

Policy Archive
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IPv4 Resources transfer within the AFRINIC Region v3

Details Ref. Name: AFPUB-2016-V4-003-DRAFT03 Submitted:23 December 2016 Versions: 3 Status: Last Call Author: - Ali HADJI, Comores Telecoms- Komi ELITCHA - Damnam Kanlanfei BA read more..

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My First AFRINIC Meeting

This November I was lucky enough to attend my first AFRINIC meeting. Despite the temptation of the beach, I made my way to the Sofitel Hotel in Mauritius each and every day. This was an interesting ex... read more..

Blog (EN)
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FIRE Africa awardees receive prize at IGF 2016

  The 2016 IGF took place in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 6 – 9 December. AFRINIC staff and several FIRE Africa grantees made the trip to participate in this important global Interne read more..

Blog (EN)
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AFRINIC 25 Wrap Up

AFRINIC-25 took place in Flic-en-Flac Mauritius, from 25 - 30 November, 2016. Around 240 people from 47 countries took part in training sessions, workshops, tutorials, policy development discussions, ... read more..

Public Policy Meeting (PPM) Minutes
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AFRINIC-25 | PDWG Meeting Minutes

  Date 29 November 2016 Mauritius Agenda Time Event 11:00 - 11:10 1. Welcome, Introduction & Agenda Overview 11:10 - 11:20 2. Quick Look at the AFRINIC Region P read more..

Blog (EN)
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So far, so great, as an AFRINIC 2016 Fire Africa Grantee!

Didas Mzirai is the founder and CEO of Mucho Mangoes, an organization that empowers rural smallholder farmers in Kenya. In December 2016, as part of his FIRE Award, he travelled to Mauritius... read more..

Blog (EN)
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How lame are our reverse delegations?

Introduction AFRINIC manages reverse delegations (RDNS) for the IPv4 and IPv6 address space allocated by IANA to AFRINIC. When resources are issued to network operators, AFRINIC delegates the a... read more..

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Getting Africa's IPv6 Deployment on Track

Andrew Alston, speaking as Group Head of IP Strategy, Liquid Telecommunications, talks about his involvement with the first consumer IPv6 roll out in Africa and why the continent needs to get its IPv6... read more..

Blog (EN)
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Seun Ojedeji Talks Internet Governance and Policy Development

A few days before his election to the AFRINIC Board, Seun Ojedeji, one of the longest serving Policy Development Working Group (PDWG) Co-Chair, talked to us about Internet Governance and Policy d... read more..

Blog (EN)
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September 2016 News Round up

Just like last month, September has been another busy period for the AFRINIC Team as we continue preparations for the AFRINIC-25 Meeting coming up in November.          read more..

Blog (EN)
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November 2016 News Round up

November kept us all busy with the AFRINIC-25 Meeting. Here's a quick wrap up of what we got up to in November. Monthly Statistics New members in November: 9 Total new members in 2016: 15... read more..

Blog (EN)
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ISOC Fellowship: My First IETF Experience

AFRINIC Trainer Stephen Honlue attended the IETF 96 Meeting as an ISOC Fellow. He writes about his experience and what he learned in this blog post. Introduction Like many Network practitioners, read more..

Blog (EN)
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IPv6 and the IoT

It's not too hard to imagine a world where almost everything is connected to the Internet. In the last few years, we've seen an explosion of smart devices and 'things' connected to the Internet which ... read more..

Blog (EN)
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AFRINIC and ATI Sign MoU on IPv6 and Certi::6

On 28 November 2016, during the AFRINIC-25 Meeting, AFRINIC and the Agence Tunisien d’Internet (ATI) signed an MoU to solidify their cooperation and mutual support in furthering IPv6 deployment in Tun... read more..

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A Short History of the Internet in Africa (1980-2000)

Those who attended the final day of the African Internet Summit 2016 (AIS’16), which took place back in June in Gaborone, Botswana, were treated to a personal and informative history lesson on th... read more..

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AFRALO in the Global Internet Ecosystem

The African Regional At-Large Organization (AFRALO) is one of the five RALOs that make up the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) constituency within ICANN. It provides news, resources, and information... read more..

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