Daily Recap: 29 November 2013
The saying goes, “Time flies when we are having fun”, and that’s exactly what happened this week. Friday the 29th arrived and it was the last day of AFRINIC-19 in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire. AFRINIC-19 was attended by over 200 delegates, coming from 27 different countries. Over 3000 remote participants and a good engagement level on our social media platforms, with Flickr views going up to 60,000 views.
Corporate Update
The day started with the usual AFRINIC corporate update, with presentations from Adiel Akplogan, followed by Patrick Deesse for the Financial Update. Badru Ntege gave the board update, informing the community that AFRINIC’s relocation was currently under discussion. Anne Rachel Inne wrapped up the session with the Communications and PR update, as the acting head of the department.
Services Update
AFRINIC Public Policy meetings have multiple purposes, one of them being AFRINIC staff updating the community on our activities and the progress made. Arthur N’Guessan, Head of Member Services gave a status report on the department in general while Madhvi Gokool, Registration Services Manager’s presentation focused on member recruitment and Internet Number Resources Management for 2013.
Neriah Sossou, Head of IT and Engineering gave the Infrastructure update, giving an overview of our current network and the tasks in progress to enhance it, as well as to improve service delivery.
Africa Internet Summit 2014: Djibouti
As is customary at the end of each AFRINIC meeting, the local hosts of the next meeting deliver a presentation on the host country. Djamad Doualeh Mohamed, PR Manager of Djibouti Telecom gave an overview of Djibouti, the local host and reasons why to attend the meeting. After the presentation, she managed to convince us all to pack our suitcase for Djibouti in May 2014 for AIS’14.
Closing Ceremony
And then came the moment, the closing ceremony. Officiated by Adiel Akplogan, AFRINIC CEO with the AFRINIC Board. Adiel thanked the community once again for their support and presence and thanked the AFRINIC staff for all the hard work into making AFRINIC-19 a success.
That’s a wrap, see you all in Djibouti, May 2014 for the Africa Internet Summit!
