Funding under the "Science and Technology Education Post-Basic" (STEP-B) Project

aminu — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:20:40 +0100

The Nigeria ICT Forum organized a "Resource and Strategy" seminar on 24th July, 2007, on "Advanced Academic Computing for Science & Technology Teaching and Research Collaboration".

The seminar was attended by 84 delegates from Universities (26), Colleges (7), Research Institutes (5), the Public Service (15), Development Agencies and Non-Governmental Institutions (9), and the Private Sector (22).

The purpose remains to stimulate the collaborative development of comprehensive proposals (by Research and Education Institutions, Professional societies, NGOs and the Private Sector) for funding under the Federal Ministry of Education's "Science and Technology Education Post-Basic" (STEP-B) Project.

Here are:

[attachment:HIGHLIGHT_ON_STEP-B_PROJECT-CR_ID_NO_P_0174132.pdf=Highlights on STEP-B] presented by the Coordinator

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DNS setup for local access

photonspear — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:31:33 +0100

Based on our class exercise during the last ngNOG meeting on internet services, I tried to setup dns on ubuntu platform; using bind9 I could resolve outside domain from the server terminal but still some issues:-

1. I could not dig up (A or MX) record from the zone record defined under /etc/bind/zones/ directory

2. secondly; I want registered email users to accessed email through intranet url not via ip address, I'm still finding this difficult to achieve; what should do?

Thank you in anticipation of your inputs.

Strategic Issues in ICT for Education

Mukom mac TAMON — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:29:57 +0100

This is a summary of a blog entry at http://ibiztech.wordpress.com. The idea is a cursory look at some of the issues that face ICT development in educational sector in developing countries. Check the above address for details.

1. Web 2.0 may be disruptive …. but therein lies its potential. It is mass democratization in a traditionally power-imbalanced culture. I believe the collective IQ of students (although I prefer ‘learners’) amplified by passion for what they learn and brought together via Web 2.0 exceeds that of any single lecturer/professor/guru.

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Summary of ngNOG VI, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife: 16 - 22 October 2011

aminu — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:13:34 +0100

The 6th edition of the annual Nigerian Network Operators' Group (ngNOG) Workshop and Meetings, was successfully hosted by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (OAU) from 16 - 22 October 2011.

Seventy seven (77) delegates from 31 Institutions and Organizations participated in the five parallel tracks offered at the 2011 ngNOG workshop in Ile-Ife. This compares to the 35 delegates from 14 institutions in the single track at pre-ngNOG Ibadan; 56 delegates from 14 institutions in the three tracks of ngNOG Jos; 75 delegates from 21 institutions in five tracks of ngNOG Kano; 71 delegates from 25 institutions in the five tracks of the 2008 ngNOG in Lagos; 85 delegates from 15 Institutions and Organizations in the five parallel tracks of the 2009 ngNOG workshop in Ilorin; and 66 delegates from 18 Institutions in the six parallel tracks of the 2010 ngNOG workshop in Port Harcourt.

The distribution of the 77 delegates to the 2011 workshop tracks is given below:

12 System Administration (SA)
19 Internet Infrastructure (II)
12 Internet Services and Applications (IS)
07 ICT Strategy, Policy and Management (SPM)
27 Applications and Content Development (ACD)

ngNOG VI at OAU Ife was also dominated by Academic Network Operators: 79% of participants were from the HEIs. Beyond that, however, ngNOG 2011 featured the highest number and diversity of participating research and education institutions in the history of the event. For the first time ever, there was very significant participation of institutions from sectors of Higher Education other than universities. Eleven (11) universities maintained a sub-sector lead by accounting for 45% of the 77 delegates. This year, however, three (3) Research & Development Institutes also sent delegates, while the National Board for Technical Education and 13 Polytechnics from across the country accounted for 34% of delegates to ngNOG.

Achievement of this feat by the Technical Education Sub-System was the result of deliberate strategic action by Rectors of Polytechnics and the Management of the NBTE. For example, on 17-22 September 2011, in partnership with the NBTE, the Forum had conducted a sector-workshop for 30 academic network operators from 16 Polytechnics at the NBTE's UNESCO Centre in Kaduna, to prepare them for full participation at ngNOG Ife, among other objectives.

The 2011 ngNOG at OAU Ife records a significant milestone achievement - the emergence of a coherent and inclusive research and education networking community that reflects the diversity of higher education in Nigeria.

University Libraries were also present in force this year, thanks to the synergy grown with the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs. A special side-meeting of University Librarians took place and a cocktail party was hosted by them and the OAU Ife. This was to be the end of the project intervention by the Mortenson Centre, but it marked a new beginning as the University Librarians decided to really own the intervention by maintaining the relationship with other sources of funds: it was most delightful to observe Aisha Schnuer and Alade Dorman getting used to their new Nigerian names and attire.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) led institutional representation with 10 delegates. It was followed by the host with 9 delegates, and the University of Ibadan with 7 delegates.

On the other hand, the participation rate for women at ngNOG Ife was 12%, which is lower than was ever recorded. It was 26% in 2006; 13% in 2007; 14% in 2008; 19% in 2009; and 33% at ngNOG 2010.

We are grateful to the various Institutions and Firms, who contributed instructors and presenters. They include: Yaba College of Technology, Lagos; American University of Nigeria, Yola; University of Jos; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; University of Benin; University of Ibadan; Bayero University Kano; NISTech Ltd; Datasphir Ltd; GDES/ SKANNET; Google University Access Program; and the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs.

With very great appreciation to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, and Google Inc. for supporting this event; to the Network Start up Resource Centre, which donated books and networking equipment; to the Mortenson Center; and Meed Networks, which donated T-shirts for this event.

Delegates, observers, our volunteer instructors and presenters, and their employers; as well as our Membership, the ngNOG host institution, LOC, Interns and organizers, are deeply appreciated.

This workshop built-upon foundations laid at the preparatory-ngNOG Workshop that held at the University of Ibadan in July 2006, and the five full editions that were hosted at UniJos, BUK, Unilag, Unilorin and Uniport. These were in turn, made possible by earlier editions of the INET and AfNOG workshops at which fora ngNOG instructors were mostly trained over the years, and will continue to be updated.

We remain deeply grateful to all our supporters and those who inspire us, including the very many who were not specifically mentioned in this summary.

ngNOG 2011 Workshop and Meetings

rashida — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:35:22 +0100

Start: 2011-10-16 15:35

End: 2011-10-22 15:35

The sixth edition of the Nigerian Network Operators' Group (ngNOG) Workshop and Meetings is schedule to take place as follows:

Date: 16th – 22nd October 2011-09-30
Venue: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife

ngNOG is a forum for cooperation and the exchange of technical information between operators of Internet-connected networks in Nigeria.

The Group is principally constituted by technical staff drawn from the Higher Education Institutions in Nigeria and some private sector Operators.

Workshop structure available here

We look forward to your participation.

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Pfsense Virtual IPs howto?

sunusiringim — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:33:16 +0100

Hi Guys
I have been trying to setup a Pfsense gateway, i have a couple of public IPs that i plan to do 1:1 Nat with some servers in my DMZ. I have gone through most threads about VIPs and 1:1 NAT, but i think am yet to get it right.

This is what i did

1. I created the vitual IPs using the Firewall->Virtual IP and ticked the "other" option.
2. I then created a 1:1 of the public IP to a Private IP in the DMZ
3. I then created a firewall rule on the WAN to allow TCP/UDP from ANY to the Address in the DMZ.
4. Also to make my VIPs pingable i created a rule on the WAN to allow ICMP destained for the VIP on the WAN from ANY

it still doesnt seem to be working, i cant even ping, could someone pls guide me through

Thanx lots

Open Source Networking Group

Automatic Change-over switch

umaruba — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:59:05 +0100

I have started working on an automatic change-over switch that will enable the power to switch over to public utility and as well switch off the generator. This will greatly saves time and fuel.
i would like to work with any member of the forum to actualise this.

Sun (as in solar) Modular Data Center

sodeyemi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:32:59 +0100

" I mentioned briefly that the SunMD unit at CeBIT was hooked up to solar-power. Ingo Frobenius, the Sun Engineer involved in the effort, provided me with more details about the solar installation.

The solar array was about 65 square meters providing 10kW of power. The normal generator used with the SunMD truck was replaced with a transformer and the unit was also attached to the power grid for when the solar panels were not producing power (which happened during the first day of snow .

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Summary of the Campus Networks and ngREN Design Workshop, OAU Ife, July 10-15, 2011

aminu — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:06:33 +0100

The Nigeria ICT Forum and the Network Startup Resource center (NSRC) of the University of Oregon, organized an intensive, week long, hands-on workshop on Campus Network Design and REN Development, that was hosted by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (OAU), on July 10-15, 2011.

An international troupe of six (6) NSRC traveling geeks from the United States (Steven Huter, Dale Smith and Ron Milford), England (Brian Candler), Chile (Hervey Allen) and from Germany (Jens Kuehlers), was ensembled at Ife to train and guide 34 network engineers from 20 Nigerian universities, agencies and organizations.

The 34 delegates were from the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Bayero University Kano; Benson Idahosa University, Benin; Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki; Federal University of Technology, Akure; Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike; National Board for Technical Education, Kaduna; National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (OAU); University of Abuja; University of Agriculture, Abeokuta; University of Agriculture, Makurdi; University of Benin; University of Ibadan; University of Ilorin; University of Jos; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; and the University of Port Harcourt. It was delightful to see new inter-institutional and inter-sectoral bonding taking place, as this is essential for successful NREN formation.

This training program emphasized the importance of the campus network as the foundation in developing a robust, high performance National Research and Education Network (NREN). The hands-on course addressed design methodologies, including physical cabling, switching architectures, core campus routing and border network design (BGP) for institutions. The objectives were to:

Train network engineering staff on how to develop a strategic design plan for their campus networks to facilitate successful participation in the Nigerian and Regional Research and Education Networks;
Provide current best practices in designing and building hierarchical networks using structured cabling systems, layer 2 switches and layer 3 routers, including where to route and where to switch in campus networks;
Improve engineering skills and technical knowledge of campus networking staff to enable them operate their physical networks; and
Strengthen the Nigerian technical community (including, the human networks) to develop Nigeria's Research and Education cyberinfrastructure.

Delegates were grouped in to five, each on a seperate table in the laboratory. Each table was then provisioned with all the networking equipment and number resources required to simulate a campus network or a cluster of campus networks. Each group was then taught how to configure and operate its own network, and inter-connect as peers with the other different institutional networks, an Internet Exchange Point and a provider, effectively simulating the ngREN or a regional cluster in the laboratory.

For this remarkable hands-on activity to happen, 27 cartons of books and two and a half tonnes of donated networking equipment, including all the switches and routers required, were shipped to the Forum by the NSRC, and made available to delegates. At the conclusion of the activity, these were in turn donated by the Forum to the delegates and their institutions (respectively), to facilitate continuing education of the delegates and improvement of their campus networks.

The principal goal of helping to improve campus networks in Nigeria to prepare for the creation of the physical infrastructure for a Nigerian Research and Education Network has been remarkably achieved.

Never before had so much and so many resources been invested in a single training activity by the Forum and our friends and their friends. Support for this event was sourced for and provided variously, and is all deeply appreciated. In particular, however, the Carnegie Corporation of New York (which provides support to NSRC, the Forum and OAU Ife); Google Inc. (which has given support to both NSRC and the Forum, contributed an instructor and donated some of the equipment); and the MacArthur Foundation, which supports both the Forum and the University of Ibadan (where an onsite network audit and consultation was provided during this event), should be mentioned. We also thank the International Research Network Connections program of the U.S. National Science Foundation for help with developing our national cyberinfrastructure via the NSRC.

On-site inspection and consulting was provided to the University of Ibadan on Friday 8th July, and to the workshop host institution throughout our stay at Ife. Network documentation and Case studies of our campus networks and how to anticipate bottlenecks and resolve them, were treated at evening tutorials. Delegates fully utilized the ensembled experts to consult on their campus networks at every "free" chance they could get.

Perhaps most importantly, it was delightful to note the healthy trend of seamless transitions of university administrations, integrity of strategic ICT visions and consistency of support for the Forum at key institutions like the University of Ibadan (UI) (where instructors and organizaers stopped for a day, to meet with the new VC (Professor I.F. Adewole) and witness the first meeting of the Ibadan REN cluster), and at the Obafemi Awolowo University.

Just a couple of weeks in Office, the new Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University at Ife (OAU), Professor Idowu Bamitale Omole, was at hand to address and open this workshop. He pledged to host the Nigerian Network Operators Group workshop in a few months; to grow the Ife REN cluster and appointed a coordinator for it; and to discuss its interconnection with the nearby Ibadan REN cluster.

Now, if those are not best examples of new university administrations that were actually "running on landing" and taking us all to our envisioned destination, we would like to know your proposal!

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New Research Fellowships in Peace, Security, and Development

aminu — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:46:37 +0100

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is supporting a new fellowship program in social sciences for emerging academics in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The program has been designed, and is being administered by, the Social Science Research Council for an initial two-year period with the possibility of renewal.

The research theme for the program is peace, security, and development, broadly defined.

Three levels of fellowships are on offer, all for doctoral work:

dissertation proposal development (e.g. pre-testing a survey instrument or interview protocol);
doctoral research (e.g., to enable fieldwork); and
dissertation writing.

Fellowships are open on a competitive basis to African scholars without PhDs and who are affiliated with a university in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda. Because of the Corporation’s emphasis on developing and retaining the next generation of African academics, priority will be given to applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to a career in teaching and research in the continent.

Diversity is prized, and women are especially encouraged to apply.

Application deadline for the first round of fellowships is 31 August 2011.

Attached is a poster for appropriate notice boards at your campus. Other details can be found here at the program's site.

The INEC's DDC Machines - their limited use in the 2011 election

umaruba — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:18:05 +0100

Umar uba
Kashim ibrahim library
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria..
May 2011
The INEC’S DDC Machines – their limited use in the 2011election.
Being under the shadow of networks for a while now , I have come to terms with the progressively changing technology of computers and their networks.
The possibility of having a perfect election in the country for the 2011 was clearly the vision of INEC. This, of course was at their finger tips with these machines in use.
The decision of the government to acquire this technology and put it to use was to completely eliminate the fallacies of elections at all levels.
Computers and networks are required to handle these operations with the trained personnel having them on their laps. The operations solely rely on waves and power.
Firstly, the technology of the computer is beyond the limit of INEC’s operations to exhaust. These computers can even do more. It all depends on what we want them to do.
With what the government concur, to play with the dummies, the finger prints, image capture and data which are the key elements required during the registrations all powers were within the finger tips of the operators. These data once captured remain within the system for its own consumption only unless we use the waves and signals to extract them out either in print or stored in magnetic form.
Secondly, the network aspect of the technology is the medium that shares these resources among the dummies and other locations. It goes beyond the eyes, it is either in waves, light or metal (copper) it’s the wedding ring of computers.

Finger prints which have a probability of one in a million being the same is a major item field required for specicificity. In Nigeria, we have an average of 120- people having the same finger prints. Then comes the picture, this is prone to duplication with twins, kins. The probability of having a duplicate is high. Lastly, could the data/information such as name, age, telephone no etc all be wrong or untraceable?

The computers and other networks equipment are the hard wares that are physically visible to perform these jobs. To use this equipment, software is required to communicate between them. This side of the ddc machines is as important as the other. As the banks have succeeded in centralizing their operations with added limitations so also these machines could be made to follow suit. The software must have the ability to sort the data with accuracy how ever much it is to create very useful information in a millisecond. This ability of the software is far beyond what human calculation could handle.

The INEC registration machines must have come with this software and that was why the registration was a success. Unfortunately the software failed to attend to the issues of multiple registrations and duplicate data entry. This should be the character of each machine. It was as a result of this failure we had people registering in multiple places. These multiple registrations, for some were not deliberate but as result of a system failure during the initial registration. A case so many was when patrons registered and the personnel came back the next day and claimed the system has crashed therefore people must re register. Such cases came out with multiple registrations as the system failed to sort out the duplications.

What was expected from these machines was a similar enquiry and response we do get when registering the yahoomail or gmail address. In such instance the system must be connected to the inter-net. As we register it sifts through it if such a name or data had ever been entered. It then came out with an option. This was because the data provided by us was once entered by someone else. Therefore we have a different identity. The ddc machines could have done more owing to inclusion of finger-print and image.
Another failure of the INEC machines is the lack of wide Area networks for the wards and local government polls, metropolitan Area network for the states polls or the internet for the online one time national polls.

How best to use the ddc machines during elections:
(With everything being equal) having a good working machine with a well programmed software and an excellent network the hope of having a perfect election is at our finger-tips. If all the above conditions are satisfied, and the registration was conducted successfully with all data edited and sorted out all we will require is the fingertips recognition inter face and touch screen to make a perfect election.
Once you place your finger it simply recognizes you and displays a screen of ballot boxes. You then place the other finger tip and select the party of choice. As you release the first finger the screen disappears and waits for the next person. This operation takes barely two minutes.
The authenticity of this is that it can’t be manipulated and two people can’t vote at a time and one person cannot vote twice.
If all these are done, the next and subsequent elections in the country by a determined INEC to have a free, fair, credible and honest election will be hailed not only in Nigeria but world wide for a well handled election.

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Campus Network Design Workshop

rashida — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:13:55 +0100

Start: 2011-07-11 22:13

End: 2011-07-15 22:13

The Nigeria ICT Forum in collaboration with the Network Startup Resource Center(NSRC) will be holding a workshop on Campus Network Design.

The 5 day intensive training is targeted at 30 Network Engineers with an aim to help improve University Networks and also prepare for the creation of the physical infrastructure for a Nigerian Research and Education Network.

Date: 11th - 15th July 2011

Venue: Obafemi Awolowo University

For more details, please log on to NSRC/ngICT Forum Workshop

AfNOG-12 & AfriNIC-14

rashida — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:15:40 +0100

Start: 2011-05-29 10:15

End: 2011-06-10 10:15

AfNOG-12 and AfriNIC-14: Meetings 29 May - 10 June, 2011

The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 12th AfNOG Workshop and the AfriNIC-14 Meeting to be held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from 29th May to 10th June 2011.

AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organizing a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop), several full-day Advanced Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG Meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC Meeting.

In addition, several side meetings and workshops will be hosted in collaboration with other organizations.

Log on to AfNOG for further details on application and event timetable.

ngNOG 2011 Call For Hosting Proposals

rashida — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:43:33 +0100

The Nigerian Network Operators' Group (ngNOG) is a forum for cooperation and the exchange of technical information between operators of Internet-connected networks in Nigeria.

The 2011 workshop is the sixth edition of ngNOG.

The actual annual ngNOG Event is a full week of intensive activity that includes the main workshop in six (6) concurrent tracks, tutorials, meetings and a conference, and a number of social events.

Hosting an ngNOG Event, however, is a more elaborate activity with specific requirements that are stated in a [attachment:ngNOG_HostingDocument_2011.pdf=Hosting Document].

Institutions /organizations wishing to host ngNOG VI in mid October through early November 2011 are invited to propose how they will meet the requirements described in the attached [attachment:ngNOG_HostingDocument_2011.pdf=Hosting Document] and the [attachment:ngNOG 2011 Budget Template .xls=Budget Template].

Expressions of Interest and/or applications/proposals should be sent to info@forum.org.ng or submitted to the address below on or before Febuary 28, 2011:

ngNOG Secretariat,
Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions,
No. 25 Libreville Street,
Off Aminu Kano Crescent,
Wuse II, Abuja

Report on Euro-Africa Week 2010: A Nigerians' perspective

ene — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:27:02 +0100

This voluntary report is a summary of my observations and the outcome of a meeting of Nigerians that participated in the Euro-Africa week in Helsinki. My attendance was influenced by the year I spent as a programme officer in the Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions, Abuja and the exposure to efforts seeking to establish the Nigerian Research and Education Network.
I found the activities of the week very enlightening and I hope to share some of what I have learned to foster these efforts even if indirectly.

11th Distinguished Electrical and Electronics Engineer's Annual Lecture

rashida — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:54:07 +0100

Start: 2010-12-16 00:00

The Nigeria Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (NIEEE) a division of Nigerian Society of Engineers invites you to the

11th Distinguished Electrical and Electronics Engineer Annual Lecture (DEEEAL)

Topic: Pathway to Connecting the Last Man

Lecturer: Engr. Titi Omo-Ettu (Past Chairman NIEEE, President ATCON)

Date:Thursday 16th, December 2010

Time: 02:00pm prompt

Venue: Lagos Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja

ngNOG 2010

rashida — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:50:59 +0100

Start: 2010-10-10 00:00

End: 2010-10-17 23:59

The Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions is delighted to announce the 2010 Nigerian Network Operators' Group (ngNOG) workshop. This years' workshop also coincides with the 5th anniversary of the event.

ngNOG V workshop and conference is schedule to take place at

Venue : University of Port Harcourt,Abuja Campus

Date : 10th - 17th October 2010

For more information you can contact us on

Phone : +234 09 874 6732
E-Mail : info@forum.org.ng

We look forward to seeing you

The ngNOG V Workshop at UniPort: A Celebration in the Niger Delta

aminu — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:47:18 +0100

ngNOG 2010, the 5th anniversary edition of the annual series of the Nigerian Network Operators' Group (ngNOG) Workshop and Meetings, was successfully held and celebrated at the University of Port Harcourt (UniPort) from 10-16 October 2010.

Sixty six (66) delegates from 18 Institutions and Organizations participated in the six parallel tracks of the 2010 ngNOG workshop in Port Harcourt. This compares to the 35 delegates from 14 institutions in the single track at pre-ngNOG Ibadan; 56 delegates from 14 institutions in the three tracks of ngNOG Jos; 75 delegates from 21 institutions in five tracks of ngNOG Kano; 71 delegates from 25 institutions in the five tracks of the 2008 ngNOG in Lagos; and 85 delegates from 15 Institutions and Organizations in the five parallel tracks of the 2009 ngNOG workshop in Ilorin.

Professor Joseph A. Ajienka, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, was involved enough with the workshop to qualify as a delegate. He treated us to a fantastic closing dinner and social evening. The Niger Delta is safe, he seemed to declare, and the LOC proceeded to prove it by organizing an enthralling riverine sight-seeing tour to the legendary Kingdom of Opobo.

The University of Port Harcourt (UniPort) was where the Appropriate Power Technologies (APT) Track was conceived and tested out in 2006.

In 2010, UniPort consolidated its key historic position by inaugurating the Applications and Content Development Track of ngNOG that was delivered by international resource persons.

The distribution of the 66 delegates to the 2010 workshop tracks is given below:

18 System Administration(SysAdmin)
08 Internet Infrastructure (II)
07 Internet Services and Applications (IS)
04 Appropriate Power Technologies (APT)
19 ICT Strategy, Policy and Management (SPM)
10 Applications, Content Development and Management (ACD)

We are grateful to the various Institutions and Firms, who contributed instructors and presenters: Mortenson Center for International Library Programs; ICTP, Trieste; University of Jos ; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria ; University of Benin ; University of Agriculture, Makurdi ; University of Ibadan ; Umaru Musa Yar'Adua University, Katsina ; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife ; SKANNET(GDES) ; NISTech Ltd ; Datasphir Ltd and The Bandwidth Consortium .

Layer3 made a record cash donation of NGN 1.25 Million in support of this event, and also sent delegates to ngNOG Port Harcourt. And, of course, ISOC NG's Chief Giandomenico Massari sent their annual donation to the workshop site.

ngNOG V at Port Harcourt was also dominated by Academic Network Operators: 80% of participants were from the HEIs. As many as 20 participants were also affiliated to University Libraries this year, thanks to the synergy grown with the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs. Following University of Port Harcourt (UniPort) with 18 delegates, other contributors of delegates to ngNOG V were led this time around, by the University of Jos with 8 delegates and the National Assembly with 7 delegates, thanks to the facilitation provided by PARP.

At 33%, the participation rate for women was much better at Port harcourt than was ever recorded. It was 26% in 2006; 13% in 2007; 14% in 2008; and 19% in 2009.

Two tutorials were presented at ngNOG V: on Virtualization, by Dewole Ajao and Cletus Okolie, and Building Low Cost Network Storage, by Clement Onime.

The 2010 ngNOG meeting was the best attended so far, and featured key presentations on Carbon Credit by Nentawe Goshe, and outputs of Deliberations from the Strategy, Policy and Management track and the evening discussions by Bashir Sani.

This workshop built-upon foundations laid at the preparatory-ngNOG Workshop that held at the University of Ibadan in July 2006, and the four full editions that were hosted at UniJos, BUK, Unilag and Unilorin. These were in turn, made possible by earlier editions of the INET and AfNOG workshops at which fora ngNOG instructors were mostly trained over the past 11 years, and will continue to be updated.

With very great appreciation to the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the MacArthur Foundation for supporting this event; to the Network Start up Resource Centre, which donated books and networking equipment; to the Mortenson Center which donated books, supported delegates and sent resource persons; all the delegates, observers, and volunteer team of instructors and presenters, and their employers; as well as our Membership, and to the ngNOG 5th Annoversary workshop host institution, LOC, Interns and organizers.

We remain deeply grateful to all our supporters and those who inspire us, including the very many who were not specifically mentioned in this summary.

AfriNIC IPV6 Training

rashida — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:46:53 +0100

Start: 2010-09-28 08:46

AfriNIC annonces it's LIR + IPv6 workshop which is being hosted by the Nigerian Internet Exchange Point with the collaboration of The Nigeria ICT Forum .

The workshop will take place in Nigeria as follows;

Lagos

Date: 28th - 30th September 2010

Venue: Chams City - Ikeja

No 2A Isaac John Street G.R.A Ikeja, Lagos.

Abuja

Date: 04th - 06th 0ctober 2010

Venue: DBI (Digital Bridge Institute)

P.O.W. Mafemi Crescent, Off Solomon Lar Way, Utako District, Abuja

Registration:

log on to Register

Participation in the training is FREE of charge and open to AfriNIC members and network operators in that priority as well as anyone interested in understanding the management of Internet number resources
and/or the operation of IPv6 networks.

Note that we will not bear any transportation and/or accommodation costs for the participants.

During this workshop,organisations will get help with their IP resource application process on site.

Course Highlights
LIR and IP Resource Planning Scenarious
IPv6 from an IPv4 perspective: Similarities and important differences
IPv6 Business Readiness Planning [Open discussion]
IPv6 Transition Techniques [Concepts and Configuration Scenarios]
IPv6 Intra-domain routing with OSPFv3
At least 8 hours of hands-on practical configuration scenarios.

Target Audience & Prerequisites:
Network engineers and systems administrators who can set up and manage
an IPv4 network. Good knowledge of IPv4 networking and routing protocols
as well as ability to use the Cisco CLI are mandatory.

YOUTH ALONE ALL SENIOR SECONDRY SCHOOL CONFERENCE(2) OWERRI

youthalone — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:27:05 +0100

All Senior Secondary School Conference Owerri
2010

Sponsorship/Partnership for All Senior Secondary School Conference (2) Owerri.

conference5conference3Youth Alone is the brain child of the Nigeria Youth Aid Programme; an NGO registered with all relevant regulatory bodies here in Nigeria.

All Senior Secondary School Conference is the gathering together of students from secondary schools, to be lectured and motivated towards a fruitful career and on their paths for life in general after their secondary education.

The pioneer edition which held on the 27th of September 2008, at the NYSC camp ground Iyana-Ipaja, saw the gathering of senior prefects of secondary schools in Lagos state. Prof. Dora Akunyili (Former Director General NAFDAC), Mr. Segun Adeniji (The Lagos state Director for Youth and Sports) were amongst lecturers that taught on the theme “Whatz Next”

All Senior Secondary School Conference (2) holding in the Clean and Green city of Owerri on the 26th and 27th of March 2010; where 26th March would be the Award ceremony and 27th of March 2010, would be the conference proper. This Year’s conference team is “Positive Energy (P.E)”

Please see brochure on the Award ceremony for more information on the awards; its necessity and recipients.

Sponsorship/Partnership with Youth Alone Initiative on this very worthy cause would greatly impact positively on Education and its system in Owerri and Nigeria in general. It would also be an opportunity to parley with the over five thousand (5000) students that would participate in this year’s conference.

Attached herewith is the report of the pioneer Lagos edition of the Youth Alone All Senior Secondary School Conference.

Youth Alone Initiative would be honored to work out modalities for sponsorship or partnership with you.

Thank you in anticipation

Yours Faithfully

Onuoha Michael

Initiator YAI

c/o NYAP

12, Awoyemi street, by Oyekan road

Masha, surulere, Lagos.

youth_alone_initiative@yahoo.com

07029245804

08037164796

Below is a list of Sponsorship Windows/Partnership opportunities and its cost implications

Date of Event

Location

Opportunities/Windows

Cost

26th March 2010

HALL A workshop Training section (50 students, 10 principals, Workshop Tutor, Observing Dignitary)

Ø Branding of Venue

Ø Honorary speech/presentation

Ø Products Sampling

Ø Advert on Workshop brochure

=N=20,000

=N=30,000

=N=15,000

HALL B

workshop Training section (50 students, 10 principals, Workshop Tutor, Observing Dignitary)

Ø Branding of Venue

Ø Honorary speech/presentation

Ø Products Sampling

Ø Advert on Workshop brochure

=N=20,000

=N=30,000

=N=15,000

HALL C

workshop Training section (80 students, 30 principals, 4 Workshop Tutors, Observing Dignitaries)

Ø Branding of Venue

Ø Honorary speech/presentation

Ø Products Sampling

Ø Advert on Workshop brochure

=N=25,000

=N=40,000

=N=10,000

=N=15,000

AWARD NIGHT

(Award Recipients, Principals of schools, Dignitaries and Senior School Prefects)

Ø Branding of Venue

Ø 2minute presentation

Ø Products Sampling

Ø Advert on Award brochure

=N=50,000

=N=150,000

=N=30,000

=N=20,000

27th March 2010

Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri

(5000 students selected from across Imo state Senior Secondary Schools, Lecturers for the conference, Dignitaries, Parents and teachers)

Ø Branding of Venue

Ø Ten (10) minute presentation

Ø Products Sampling

Ø Advert on Conference Materials

Ø Display Stands

=N=300,000

call

FREE (call)

=N=200,000

=N=30,000

Youth Alone Initiative would be honored to work out modalities for sponsorship or partnership with you.

Thank you in anticipation

Yours Faithfully

Onuoha Michael

Initiator YAI

c/o NYAP

12, Awoyemi street, by Oyekan road

Masha, surulere, Lagos.

youth_alone_initiative@yahoo.com

07029245804

08037164796

07063775786

08068791044

Overview of Proceedings at YOUTH ALONE ALL SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL CONFERENCE OWERRI

DATE: 26TH MARCH 2010 WORKSHOP/AWARDS

27TH MARCH 2010 CONFERENCE

DATE

EVENT/Time

VENUE

ANCHOR

26TH March 2010

Workshop

12pm – 1pm

HALL A

HALL B

HALL C

Mrs. Taiwo Demeji Jojolola

(Presenter FRANK TALK on MITV)

Topic: Your Success is in Your relationship

Mrs. Jibe Ologeh

(MD/CEO R-WELLS MEDIA)

Topic: Media; a worthy cause, a stable life

Mrs. Modupe Adelaja

(Director General SMEDAN)

Topic: The ladder between $1 and $1million

SHORT BREAK

SHORT BREAK SHORT BREAK

Workshop

2pm – 3pm

HALL A

HALL B

HALL C

Mrs. Amadi Onemtein

(Executive Director NYAP)

Topic: Resourceful & Responsible; You Can

Mr. Michael Onuoha

(Initiator Youth Alone Initiative)

Topic: Take it; I mean the future

Dr. Elizabeth Nkem

(Provost Nigerian Institute of Journalism)

Topic: Journalism; an Insight

WORKSHOP

ENDS

WORKSHOP ENDS

AWARD NITE

5pm – 8pm

AWARDS VENUE

Award Recipients

Chief Rochas Okorocha

(philanthropic works through Education)

Oghenemaga Ologeh/Denrele Edun

(Youth Impact through Television)

Gov. Rotimi Amaechi

(piloted Rivers state safely out of Youth restiveness)

Gov. Ikedi Ohakim

(Host Governor & Friend of the Youth)

Prof. Dora Akunyili

(The Perfect Role-Model)

27th March 2010

Youth Alone All Senior Secondary School Conference

10am – 4pm

Dan Anyiam Stadium Owerri.

Prof. Pat Utomi

(Center for Values and Leadership)

Positive Energy (P.E)

Prof. N.C Njoku

(V.C Imo State University)

Formal Education a remedy against Violence

Mrs. Ikedi

(First Lady of Imo State)

I speak as a Mother; Your Energy is our pride

Dr. Paul Orhii

(Director General NAFDAC)

Hard Drugs; Wrong source for Positive Energy

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