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AfNOG 2013 Workshop on Network Technology

AfNOG 2013 Atelier sur les Technologies Réseau

Lusaka, Zambia

9 to 14 June 2013

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Introduction

This Workshop on Network Technology is held from 9 to 14 June 2013, in conjunction with a meeting of the African Network Operators Group, AfNOG 2013, an AfriNIC public policy meeting, AFRINIC-18, and several other meetings from 15 June to 21 June 2013.

The venue for the workshop is the Top Floor training facility, in Lusaka, Zambia.

The workshop aims to offer advanced training to operators of existing African Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who are participants in the process of developing and enhancing a national Internet with regional and international connectivity.

This workshop builds upon the experiences of the previous AfNOG workshops held in Cape Town (South Africa) in 2000, Accra (Ghana) in 2001, Lomé (Togo) in 2002, Kampala (Uganda) in 2003, Dakar (Sénégal) in 2004, Maputo (Moçambique) in 2005, Nairobi (Kenya) in 2006, Abuja (Nigeria) in 2007, Rabat (Morocco) in 2008, Cairo (Egypt) in 2009, Kigali (Rwanda) in 2010, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in 2011, Serrekunda (Gambia) in 2012, and the Internet Society's INET workshops held from 1993 to 2000 at eight locations around the world.

AfNOG 2013 was made possible by generous contributions from several sponsors.

Goals

The goals of the Workshop are:

To train a critical mass of trainers and professionals in network infrastructure and services to be able to support an extension of Internet-related activities within the African countries represented.
To identify and share individual and institutional contacts as well as information sources that will assist the process of national development, using international Internet connections.
To build robust professional linkages between all participants in the programs so that the mentor-student and colleague-colleague relationships formed during the workshop and conferences will remain strong and of continuing usefulness well beyond the workshop and conference.
To increase the level of co-operation among existing projects and activities for establishing public data networks in Africa.
To train people and groups of people who will return to their country and region and who will teach others what they have learned at the workshop.

Workshop tracks / Thèmes des ateliers

An intensive program of instruction is planned for the workshop, composed of three instructional tracks in English, and one in French. Participants attend only one of the tracks, since the tracks run concurrently. All participants will engage in extensive hands-on training, setting up and managing prototype infrastructure and services.

Detailed information for each track appears below.

Introduction to Unix (in English)
AR-E – Advanced Routing (in English)
CT-E – Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) (in English)
NM-E – Network Management (in English)
NM-F – Gestion de Réseaux (en français)
SI-E – Scalable Network Infrastructure (in English)
SS-E – Scalable Internet Services (in English)