The African Network Operators’ Group 11 Years of Building Africa’s Capacity

The African Network Operators’ Group

11 Years of Building Africa’s Capacity

5th African ccTLD Event, Accra

Ghana18–22 April 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

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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

Current Workshops at AfNOG

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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 2008

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.

Track E0 now SA-E will no longer be taught at AfNOG

New Workshop Tracks

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To be started at AfNOG 12 Workshops in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in May/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 localhostTimely preparation for the eventCatering for language diversityFunding for workshops & meetingsLogistics: People & EquipmentEnsuring continuity

Workshops & MeetingsOutreach

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Outreach

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PHEA Capacity Building Project

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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 institutions in the Bandwidth Consortium (BWC)

PHEA Capacity Building Project

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Expected 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

AfNOG Chix Program

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Our Gender Program on Unix Systems Administration for female Network Engineers. 

Has 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-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

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Trained over 2,300 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.

Provided meeting space to other ICT related meetingsAFRINICAFTLDAFRENAFRISPAINET AFRICA

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Thank you for your attention