[afnog] Are you interested? Few ISOC chapters in Africa are putting up IETF Viewing Hubs

[Betel Hailu]

Hi everyone- 

As many of you know,  IETF 101 starts next week from 17-23 March 2018 and a few Internet Society Chapters in Africa are putting up viewing hubs that are open to those who wish to follow the on goings with others having similar interests in Internet research and standards. 
       
The IETF’s mission is to make the Internet work better. It develops and promotes open Internet standards and works on the evolution of the Internet under various Working Groups. There are several Working Groups meeting next week and some of the ones the hubs will be following include sessions on securing the Internet of Things and Internet connectivity for vehicles. 
       
Are you interested? if yes, please find below info on the hubs and how to contact them for more information:
       
       
Botswana
• Organizer: ISOC Botswana Chapter
• Date: March 19th 2018
• Time: 10AM to 2.30PM CAT
• Venue: University of Botswana
• Contact Persons: Osego (ocbatisani at gmail.com)

 Ghana
• Organizer: ISOC Ghana Chapter
• Date: March 17th and March 19th 2018
• Time: 
o Saturday 17th March: 9AM to 1.30PM UTC/GMT
o Monday 19th March: 9.30AM to 5.30PM UTC/GMT
• Venue: University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Korea Information Access Center
• Contact Persons: Andratu (andaissah at gmail.com) and Marcus (madomey at hotmail.com)

Namibia
• Organizer: ISOC Namibia Chapter
• March 20th 2018
• Time: 11.30AM to 8.20PM UTC/GMT
• Venue: NBII Mobile Lab
• Contact Persons: Anastasia (anna at internetsociety.na) and Nashilongo (nashilongo at internetsociety.na)
       
Nigeria
• Organizers: ISOC Nigeria chapter & Jos NOG
• Date: May 9th 2018
• Time: 8.30AM to 6.30PM UTC/GMT
• Venue: University of Jos
• Contact Persons: Mary-Jane (mjaysule at gmail.com ) and Joel (gogwim at gmail.com)
        
Zimbabwe
       o   Organizer: ISOC Zimbabwe Chapter
       o   Date: March 19th 2018
       o   Time: 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM CAT
       o   Venue: Chemistry Lecture Theatre (School Of Technology)
       o   Contact Persons: Solomon Hopewell Kembo <solomonkembo at gmail.com>


If you want to individually follow IETF 101 you can join remotely via https://ietf.org/how/meetings/101/remote/

       
Thanks,
Betel 



Betel Hailu | Africa Regional Bureau – Communications Coordinator | ISOC: Internet Society
skype: betty.hailu | www.InternetSociety.org |  
Follow Us   

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 5206 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.afnog.org/pipermail/afnog/attachments/20180314/5aa55862/attachment.bin>