<div dir="auto"><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Congratulations Ramanou!!! Good job !!</span></font><div dir="auto"><font face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Andrea from ISOC NY </span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 3:01 PM Judith Hellerstein via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>HI All,</p>
<p>A big congratulations to ISOC Benin's leader, Ramanou Biaou for
being awarded the 2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity
Building. Such a great honor. Ramanou has been instrumental on
building up capacity within ISOC Benin and working to enable his
community to become active within meetings with the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Governance Forum
(IGF), and ICANN</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Judith Hellerstein</p>
<p>Accessibility SIG, Secretary</p>
<p>Member, ISOC DC<br>
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<span><strong><a href="https://newsalerts.icann.org/HC002020NgR87E00P2R00kd" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Ramanou
Biaou Honored with 2020
Dr. Tarek Kamel Award
for Capacity Building</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">19
October 2020</span></p>
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<p>LOS ANGELES – 19 October 2020
– The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) is honored to announce
the first recipient of the
2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for
Capacity Building is Ramanou
Biaou.</p>
<p>The ICANN Board recognizes
Biaou's commitment to local
and regional capacity-building
programs in his home country
of Benin as well as across
Africa. He has worked to
improve the technical skills
of women in Africa and
encouraged their participation
in endeavors related to the
Internet and Domain Name
System (DNS). Through his
efforts, the diversity and
number of new ICANN community
members increased.</p>
<p>Since 2018, Biaou has been
the President of the Internet
Society, Benin Chapter. He
introduced a program to enable
local community members'
participation in meetings with
the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF), the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF), and
ICANN. Biaou is active in the
African Regional At-Large
Organization (AFRALO) at ICANN
and also serves as a member of
the Root Server System
Advisory Committee (RSSAC)
Caucus.</p>
<p>ICANN first <a href="https://newsalerts.icann.org/JR2PC20l2E0NS780dg00000" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">introduced</a>
the Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for
Capacity Building in January
2020 to honor members of the
ICANN community who have
contributed significantly to
national, regional, or global
capacity-development programs
related to ICANN's mission.
This award was established in
honor of the late Dr. Tarek
Kamel, an Internet pioneer
known for his contributions to
global Internet governance. At
the time of his passing, Dr.
Kamel was ICANN's Senior
Advisor to the President and
Senior Vice President for
Government and
Intergovernmental Organization
Engagement.</p>
<p>You can watch an interview
with Ramanou Biaou and learn
more about the award <a href="https://newsalerts.icann.org/c00022gC0PNR02dET08m700" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<h3>About ICANN</h3>
<p>ICANN's mission is to help
ensure a stable, secure, and
unified global Internet. To
reach another person on the
Internet, you need to type an
address – a name or a number –
into your computer or other
device. This address must be
unique, so computers know
where to find each other.
ICANN helps coordinate and
support these unique
identifiers across the world.
ICANN was formed in 1998 as a
not-for-profit public-benefit
corporation with a community
of participants from all over
the world.</p>
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