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INET Africa Regional Conference Abuja, Nigeria
The Internet Society held its INET Africa Conference on 4 May 2007 in conjunction with the AfriNIC 6 and AfNOG 8 meetings in Abuja, Nigeria.
The morning session focused on technical as well as policy aspects surrounding Internet standards development and applications, with special attention on security and efforts to fight unwanted traffic on the Internet. The afternoon session included an open discussion on Internet governance issues of importance to the continent in preparation for the IGF Meeting in Rio de Janeiro later this year.
The detailed summary of the conference can be found here (PDF: 34KB).
The report on the findings from the Internet governance session can be found here (PDF: 21KB)
AfNOG/AfriNIC/INET/AfTLD 2007 Meetings Streaming
Agenda
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcoming remarks ISOC Nigerian Chapter |
| 09:10 - 09:50 | ISOC regional Bureau Update, Dawit Bekele. Document (PDF: 94KB |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Discussions |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 - 10:50 | Intro/Update to IETF and Report on ISOC Fellowship Program |
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Technical Educational sessions
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
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Internet Governance Session |
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| 14:00 - 15:00 | State of play in Internet governance
Speech by Dawit Bekele (PDF: 14KB) Panelists Findings from the Internet Society’s (PDF: 27KB) |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | Expert session on Access Physical access and enabling environments (IXPs, technologies, interconnection costs, regulation), individual and institutional capacity building (access to access, skills building) Panelists |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | IG priorities for Africa (open moderated discussion) Identification of top issues to be communicated/worked up to and during the Internet Governance Forum in Rio. |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Moderator wrap-up, conclusions. |
