Friday, December 14, 2007

Nii Quaynor receives the prestigious Jon PostelAward

Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor has laboured as a General in the
ICT Army in Africa over two decades providing
leadership, vision, foresight, strength and the best
of field commandship - in his own words, "a strike
against techno-colonialism. A lot of us have learnt
from his fortitude, tenacity and sense of commitment
to cause that sometimes is not as well recognised but
yet the only hope for generations to come.

Nii'a efforts has resulted in great strides not only
in the technical community but in the other
disciplines and stakeholder manifestations across
board. It is important to underscore his great work as
one of the pioneers also of the building of
institutions for the knowledge economy in Africa of
which AfriNIC is a classical example of great gain.
Not to talk about his building of systems, people,
spaces and opportunity.

Please join me in congratulating a five star General,
Nii which means in our local dialect, Chief.....

Eric here

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Dawit Bekele"
Date: 6 December 2007 05:09:37 GMT+03:00
To:
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Nii Quaynor receives the
prestigious Jon Postel Award
Reply-To: bekele@isoc. org, africann@afrinic. net

Hi all,

I am happy to announce to you that, today, this year’s
prestigious Jon Postel award has been awarded to Nii
Quaynor. Lynn St.Amour, CEO and President of ISOC
handed the presentation crystal of the award to Nii
Quaynor at the IETF meeting in Vancouver, where more
than 1,000 participants were present.

You all know how much Nii has contributed for the
development of Internet in Africa, which is why we are
all happy that he has be given this award that he
fully deserves.

To know more about the Jon Postel award please see
http://www.isoc.org/awards/ .