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

1. The African Network Operators’ Group • 11 Years of Building Africa’s Capacity • 5th African ccTLD Event, Accra Ghana • 18–22 April 2011

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

3. Objectives • 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. )‏ • 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 • Founded in 1999 • First meeting in Cape Town, 2000 • Since then, annual Workshop & meetings at: Hosts Host 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 2007 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. )‏ • 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. Current Workshops at AfNOG • 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)

8. AfNOG “Track E0” Localization Program • 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

9. New Workshop Tracks • 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

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

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

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

13. Outreach

15. PHEA Capacity Building Project 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)

16. PHEA Capacity Building Project 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

17. AfNOG Chix Program • Our Gender Program on Unix Systems Administration for female Network Engineers.  • Has been held in 4 countries • March 2007 – Nairobi, Kenya • Oct 2008 – Accra, Ghana • Oct 2009 -  Gaborone Botswana • Oct 2010  - Nairobi, Kenya

18. Achievements • 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 • 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

20. Achievements

21. Achievements • Very successful and active Mailing list. • Provided meeting space to other ICT related meetings • AFRINIC • AFTLD • AFREN • AFRISPA • INET AFRICA

22. Acknowledgements

23. Acknowledgements

24. Acknowledgements CIUEM MICTI

25. Acknowledgements

26. Thank you for your attention