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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>We are happy to inform you about the following opportunity for students and professors in African Universities. ISOC is piloting an online seminar on IETF topics aimed at undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields. The seminar is intended to be embedded in existing courses in African Universities so that it enriches the existing university programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>This will hopefully be the first of many seminars around IETF and open standards topics. We strongly believe that Computer Scientists and Engineers entering the job market would benefit from more understanding of open Internet Standards and how work at organizations like the IETF, IEEE and W3C affects the products and solutions that they will need to integrate or deploy in the workplace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>The seminar will be presented by<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Daniel%20Migault"><span style='color:purple'>Dr. Daniel Migault</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and will mainly cover IPSEC. We tentatively expect the seminar to be presented online using Zoom platform in two 1-hour sessions around mid-January 2020. We also expect that there will be practical assignments for students to implement to test their understandings of the seminar. Lecturers/professors and students will need to have good access to the Internet. The seminars will begin with registration of lecturers/professors first then extend to students to be supervised by the registered lecturers/professors at a later date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><b><span style='color:black'>If you are a lecturer/professor in an African University of a Computer Security, a Computer Science or any other course</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'>that can benefit from a seminar on IPSec and you are interested to allow your students to follow the seminars as part of your course, please sign up here:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://internetsociety.wufoo.com/forms/wzud5ce0z202yq/"><span style='color:purple'>https://internetsociety.wufoo.com/forms/wzud5ce0z202yq/</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>so that we invite you to the introduction call where the program coordinators will detail the program. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Do not hesitate to forward this message to other professors who might be interested by this opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>The deadline to register is<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>the 8<sup>th</sup><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>of December 2019</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and space is limited.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>There is a small honorarium for participating Professors and a small prize for the winning assignment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>For any clarifications please email Dawit Bekele (<a href="mailto:bekele@isoc.org">bekele@isoc.org</a>) or Kevin Chege (<a href="mailto:chege@isoc.org">chege@isoc.org</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Betel Hailu </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#919191'>| 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