<div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>This is a call to present at the Africa Internet Summit (AIS) 2013. The AIS (AfNOG-14 and AFRINIC-18) will be held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 9 to 21 June 2013. </div><div><br></div>
<div>The AIS brings together different actors and sectors including Internet and communications, governments, business, civil society and academia in Africa and other parts of the world to discuss issues relating to Internet, and other social and development related activities: mobile communications, applications, technology developments, use and impact, etc. It also offers trainings to mobile communications engineers, managers, decision-makers, academics, and civil society on issues such as Internet number resource management, IPv6, network monitoring and management, and cyber security.The overall theme for this year’s Summit will be: Connection Matters: Making the Internet work for African development.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The AISwill include trainings, workshops, tutorials, keynote speeches, panel discussions, individual presentations, roundtable discussions and plenaries.</div><div><br></div><div>To enrich the discussions at the Summit, we are seeking presentations from different actors interested in sharing ideas and knowledge on a wide range of issues broadly relating to access and appropriation of the Internet for development in Africa but under the rubric of the overall Summit theme. We are specifically interested in presentations focusing on:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Internet Governance</div><div>2.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>E-governance</div><div>3.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Core Internet infrastructure</div>
<div>4.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Access, utility and development</div><div>5.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The Internet and economic development</div><div>
6.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Business practices in the era of technology</div><div>7.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Higher education in the age of technology </div>
<div>8.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Cyber Security</div><div>9.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Technology and business</div><div>10.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Cloud Computing</div>
<div>11.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Open Data/Big Data</div><div>12.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Technology and content production</div><div>13.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Relations between mobile operators and the Internet community</div>
<div>14.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Mobile applications</div><div>15.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>IPv6</div><div>16.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Peering and interconnection</div>
<div>17.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>DNS</div><div>18.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>RPKI</div><div>19.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>IXPs</div>
<div>If you are interested in making a presentation at AIS 2013, please send us an abstract of not more than 300 words outlining the key ideas of your presentation. The call for presentations closes on 22 March 2013. We will notify successful presenters by March 29 who will then be expected to submit their presentations by April 30. We will publish the Summit programme by May 15.</div>
<div><br></div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Presentations will be 15 to 20 minutes in length, with approximately 10 minutes for Q&A at the end of each presentation. The maximum time allotted per presentation will not exceed 45 minutes.</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Presenters will be responsible for any handouts. There are typically approximately 250 delegates. </div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Selected presenters will be contacted by the Presenter Liaison to coordinate logistics and details. </div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Note that proposals are reviewed and accepted on an on-going basis and that presentation slots may be filled prior to this date. </div><div><br></div><div>
*** Presentations that contain any sort of marketing and commercial content are usually not encouraged at our meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>How to submit: </div><div><br></div><div>Please send <a href="mailto:submissionsto%3Aaiscfp@afrinic.net" target="_blank">submissionsto:aiscfp@afrinic.net</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Your proposal should contain the following information: </div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Full Name </div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Email Address </div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Affiliation </div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Title of Presentation </div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>A detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation </div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Draft slides for the presentation (if ready/available) </div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Length of talk (minutes) </div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Short biography </div><div><br></div><div>*Please note that we do not provide financial or any other support to attend the meeting.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Important Dates: </div><div><br></div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Deadline for presentation proposal submissions –22 March 2013</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Notification of Acceptance of presentation proposal - 29 March 2013</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Submission of presentation – 30 April 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your contribution. </div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, </div><div>AIS Meeting team </div>
<div>Come join us at AIS 2013, 9-21 June 2013, Lusaka, Zambia.</div><div style="font-weight:bold"><br></div>