| Saturday 28 April 2007 |
| Chair: Pierre Dandjinou |
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| 9:00 – 09:15: |
Welcome address |
| 09:15 – 09:30: |
Vision on REN establishment process in Africa Boubakar Barry (AAU), Nii Quaynor (AfNOG), Adiel Akplogan (AfriNIC) |
| 09:30 – 10:30: |
Introductions of participants |
| 10:30 – 11:00: |
Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00: |
Panel-1: Review of past meetings |
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Moderator: Victor Kyalo |
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Panelists: |
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Fatou D. Sarr - NREN in SENEGAL |
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Emmanuel Tonye - |
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Mumuni Dakubu - THE STATUS OF GARNET |
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Aminu Ibrahim - |
| 12:00 – 12:30: |
Open Mic: Goal and objectives of AfREN (Moderator: Lucy Lynch) |
| 12:30 – 14:00: |
Lunch |
| Chair: Margaret Ngwira |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Presentations |
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Sandra Aluoch / Joseph Magochi (AVU): Bandwidth Consolidation and Management - A case of the BW Consortium |
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Aminu Ibrahim (NgNOG): ccNOGs: the ngNOG story |
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Victor Kyalo / Margaret Ngwira (UbuntuNet Alliance) : Strategic direction, achievements and challenges |
| 15:30 – 15:45: |
Break |
| 15:45 – 17:00: |
Panel-2: Lobbying and Advocacy |
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Moderator: Emmanuel Tonye |
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Panelists: Aminu Ibrahim, Duncan Martin, Lucy Lynch, Zita Wenzel |
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| Sunday 29 April 2007 |
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| Chair: Nii Quaynor |
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| 9:00 – 10:30: |
Presentations |
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Duncan Martin (TENET): Policy and engineering essentials for inter-REN connectivity |
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Dale Smith/Victor Kyalo (NSRC/KENET): Campus Networking Best Practices |
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Christian Benvenuti (ICTP): Open Source Bandwidth Management: Introduction to Traffic Control with Linux |
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Clement Onime (ICTP): Wireless broadband solutions for campus/national R&E networks |
| 10:30 – 11:00: |
Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30: |
Panel 3: Access to resources at lower cost: Strategies to develop |
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Moderator: Alex Corenthin |
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Panelists: Adiel Akplogan, Randy Bush, Sunday Folayan, Badru Ntege, Lawrence Kehinde |
| 12:30 – 14:00: |
Lunch |
| Chair: Pascal Hoba |
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| 14:00 – 15:00: |
Presentations |
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Cathrin Stöver (DANTE): An example for Strategic Planning in the research and education networking community: The CLARA Strategic Plan: Methodology and Results |
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Rick Summerhill (Internet2): Perspectives on distributed vs central aspects of research and education organizational issues |
| 15:00 – 17:00: |
Open Mic: The way forward (Moderator: Lucy Lynch) |
| 17:00 – 17:15: |
Closing remarks |
AfREN Meeting 2007 
AfREN Meeting 2007
