10 June

AIS'16 Daily Recap: 10 June

Last Day of the AIS'16: Thank you! 

Over 360 attendees made their way to Gaborone for the AIS'16 to attend almost two weeks worth of training, workshops, parallel meetings, plenaries, social events and networking opportunities.The Closing Ceremony saw Alan Barrett and Dr Nii Quaynor give a closing speech. Fiona Asonga from Tespok then presented the next location for AIS'17 in Nairobi, Kenya.

We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who made the AIS'16 successful. And we certainly couldn't have done it without our amazing host, BOCRA, and our generous partners and sponsors. We look forward to seeing you all next year in Kenya for the AIS'17.

 

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Plenary

The last day of the AIS'16 promised a packed agenda with panel sessions and presentations on a wide variety of topic: 

First Session

A lively panel session on the "Historical perspective of the Internet and AF* organisations" kicked off the day in the main room with discussions focusing on the history of computing and Internet on the continent. The session was rich in both insights and anecdotes, in addition to showcasing some of the most important pioneers in African Internet development.

Panelists: Alan Barrett, Alan Greenberg, Nii Quaynor and Pierre Dandjinou. Panel chaired by George Sadowsky

 

The following parallel presentations also took place:

  • Modelling the Impact of the Internet in Africa - Mukom Tamon
  • African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms - Emilar Gandhi
  • Promoting Internet Content in Africa - Michael Kende

 

Second Session

Pierre Dandjinou, Bob Ochleng, William Stuke, Mark Elkins, Loren Kabosha, Pierre Ouedraogo and Yaovi Atohun led the ICANN Africa Strategy session. Pierre Dandjinou, VP for Africa, led the Africa strategy session in the plenary that was aimed at updating the community on the various projects and activities that the ICANN team has been executing though FY16. Yaovi and Bob jointly presented on these activities and projects while calling for even more collaboration and support from the community and the Af* & I* especially with the ICANN office now formally housed in Africa. The session also included a presentation by the SACF who are currently conducting an Africa DNS Market study  and who used the planform to call upon the community to respond to the online questionnaire hosted at : https://dnsafrica.study/ . Pierre Ouedraogo updated the community on the plans and status of the Africa Internet History Project, a project aimed at documenting the journey of the Intenet in Africa from the perspective of the pioneers

 

The following parallel presentations also took place:

  • Mobile Applications in Citizen Journalism - Daniel Nanghaka
  • IPv4 Exhaustion and the Role of Price in Technology Investment Decisions -  Fried Gabe
  • Lame Delegations in WHOIS Database - Logan Velvindron
  • A Framework for Increasing IPv6 Deployment Success to 100% - Mukom Tamon
  • OpenSource Systems Development as a FastTrack Cost Effective Technology Solution Towards the Development of Africa - Phemelo Khetho
  • IPv4 Transfer - Alain Durand

Third Session

Representatives from the Af* organisations  - AfNOG, AFRINIC ICANN Africa - gathered in the main room to give an update on their activities.

Final Session

This was followed by an overview of the Fund For Internet Research and Education (FIRE Africa): Create. Enable. Connect.  Mwendwa Kivuva, FIRE Africa's Project Manager, gave an account of the programme's most recent activities.

The following parallel panels and sessions also took place: 

  • Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) Outreach Session - Session chaired by Anriette Esterhuysen. 

    This event introduced NCUC to organisations and individuals at the Africa Internet Summit. The session showcased some of its successes regarding policy making and impacting policy making within ICANN  through a series of brief introductions by the active members. The session also highlighted the importance of domain names related policies and how to participate effectively to voice African non-commercial users concerns.

  • ISOC Cybersecurity Panel - moderated by Dawit Bekele. The panel discussion on "Internet Infrastructure Security in Africa” was organised by Internet Society. The panelists were Ahmed Hussien Seid, Ben Maddison, Choolwe Nalubamba and Niel Harper. It was chaired by Dawit Bekele. The panel discussed on identifying the major security challenges facing the Internet Infrastructure in Africa in view of preparing guidelines that will serve the African countries in their effort to protect their Internet Infrastructure from present and future threats. The contributions from the panel as well as from participants enabled to gather information on what Internet infrastructure needs to be protected, what are the threats and from where they come, which infrastructures are easy targets, the measures that need to be taken and the stakeholders that need to be involved. The panel also discussed the type of guidelines that need to be developed.

The following parallel presentations also took place:

  • L'initiative PAHFINDER de GKPF : un partenariat « Gagnant-Gagnant » - Olivié Kouami
  • Internet of Things, Big data, and Cyber security - Farell Folly
  • Cloud and Big Data - Bonface Witaba
  • Internet Possibilities in Rural Africa, Stories of Empowerment - Agang K. Ditlhogo

AIS'16 presentations slides can be downloaded here.