1. The African Network Operators’ Group 11 Years of Building Africa’s Capacity Hong Kong, February 15 – 25, 2011 1

2. Agenda 2 Objectives A Brief History Communication Mechanisms Participant Background Challenges Achievements Acknowledgements

3. Objectives 3 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.

4. Objectives ( contd. ) ‏ 4 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.

5. Brief History 5 Founded in 1999 First meeting in Cape Town, 2000 Since then, annual Workshop & meetings at: HostsHost Countries Year Cequrux Cape Town, South Africa 2000 NCS Accra, Ghana 2001 TRS/CAFE Lome, Togo 2002 One2Net Kampala, Uganda 2003 ISOC Senegal Dakar, Senegal 2004 MICTI/CIUEM Maputo, Mozambique 2005 KENIC/KENET Nairobi, Kenya 2006 NgForum Abuja, Nigeria 200 7 EMI / CNRST Rabat, Morocco 2008 NTRA/MCIT Cairo, Egypt 2009 RDB/RICTA Kigali, Rwanda 2010 AfNOG-12 and AfriNIC-14: May 29 –10 June, 2011 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

6. Brief History ( contd. ) ‏ 6 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

7. AfNOG Workshop Tracks as at 2010 7 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)

8. AfNOG “Track E0” Localization Program 8 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

9. New Workshop Tracks - 2011 9 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

10. Internet Service Providers Telco Operators Government NGOs Educational & Research Institutions Participants Background

11. Communication mechanisms 11 (Annual) Workshop & Meeting Mailing list: afnog@afnog.org Websites: www.afnog.org www.ws.afnog.org

12. Challenges 12 Identifying next years Local Host ‏ Timely preparation for the event Catering for language diversity Funding for workshops & meetings Logistics: People & Equipment Ensuring continuity Workshops & Meetings Outreach

13. 13 Outreach

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15. PHEA Capacity Building Project 15 Objective  To strengthen the network management skills of campus operators  Institutionalize capacity-building  Workshops are modularly designed to enable each campus to get a fit for its needs.  Training program was for 12 PHEA-supported Universities in the Bandwidth Consortium (BWC )

16. PHEA Capacity Building Project 16 Outcome Trained staff (36 staff) in planning and managing campus network infrastructure, campus network services and academic network applications Each campus developing its own information resources serving its community Campus Operator Groups as support forum are strengthened (where they exist) or seeded where none exist, with the campuses cooperating to support each other

17. AfNOG Chix Program 17 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 countries March 2007 – Nairobi, Kenya Oct 2008 – Accra, Ghana Oct 2009 - Gaborone Botswana Oct 2010 - Nairobi, Kenya

18. Achievements 18 Built community of African Network Operators helping themselves with challenges (African & Globally) ‏ Eleven workshops & meetings in 11 different countries covering Four sub- regions Countries 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

19. Achievements 19 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

20. Achievements 20

21. Achievements 21 Very successful and active Mailing list. Co-locate Annual Event with other ICT related Events as ffs: AFRINIC AFTLD AFREN AFRISPA INET AFRICA

22. Acknowledgements 22

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24. Acknowledgements 24 MICTI CIUEM

25. Acknowledgements 25

26. 26 Thank you for your attention