Introduction
This Workshop on Network Technology is held from 28 May to 2 June 2017, in conjunction with the Africa Internet Summit, from 3 to 9 June 2017.
The venue for the workshop is the BOMA Hotel and BOMA Inn in Nairobi, Kenya.
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,
- Lusaka (Zambia) in 2013,
- Djibouti (Djibouti) in 2014,
- Tunis (Tunisia) in 2015,
- Gaborone (Botswana) in 2016,
and the Internet Society's INET workshops held from 1993 to 2000 at eight locations around the world.
AfNOG 2017 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 instructional tracks in English and 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)
- AfTLD – Advanced Registry Operators Course (in English)
- CN-E – Summit on Community Networks in Africa (in English)
Additional Material
- Workshop pictures
- O'Reilly books: English, français
- Wireless Networking in the Developing World (e-book)
- How to Accelerate Your Internet (e-book)
- Selected topics from INET2000 Network Training Workshop:
- Selected material
from AfNOG 2016 Workshop on Network Technology
- Introduction to Unix (in English)
- AfTLD-E – Advanced Registry Operators Course (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)
