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" <bekele@isoc.org> Date: 6 December 2007 05:09:37 GMT+03:00 To: <africann@afrinic.net> 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/.

Best regards,

Dawit Bekele

Manager, African Regional Bureau

Internet Society (ISOC)

bekele@isoc.org

Tel: +251 911 22 13 33

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