[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: [ISOC-ZA.announce] INET Cape Town 2010 - Monday, May 24

Wed May 12 16:40:52 PDT 2010

Dear Alan,

thanks for sharing this.

Today we have had the ISOC Mexico Internet 2010 forum, with some 40 
speakers, 150 physical attendeers, and several hundred unique users in the 
webcast streams. Further we have had a significant visibility through 
Twitter, where people bouth in the room and outside have had discussions, 
at times heated, about the subjects presented.

You can see the size of this wti the Twitter hashtag #ISOCMx, which for a 
few hours was reported to be a local Trending Topic.

We did this without HQ INET support.

I am sure that with the well-organized scheme you have already described 
you are guaranteed to make a huge splash. Glad that you also have 
corporate support. Best wishes for the event; I hope those in similar 
timezones will follow it at a distance and contribute further to success.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

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      Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico

Tels. +52-(1)-55-5105-6044, +52-(1)-55-5418-3732

* Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
* LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/apisanty
* Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614

* Ven a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org.mx, ISOC http://www.isoc.org
*Participa en ICANN, http://www.icann.org
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On Wed, 12 May 2010, Alan Levin wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 18:46:21 +0200
> From: Alan Levin <alan at futureperfect.co.za>
> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Fwd: [ISOC-ZA.announce] INET Cape Town 2010 -
>     	Monday, May 24
> 
> FYI: I must extend my sincerest appreciation for all the assistance ISOC global has given us with this. Without them it would not have been possible. We will have remote participation arranged, keep looking at our web site http://isoc.org.za.
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> Begin forwarded message:
>> After a long six months of searching for speakers, meetings about agendas and securing sponsorship, negotiation and diary jujitsu, we are delighted to bring you INET 2010. This one-day, free event will be tackling the very important topic of how to deliver the Internet at much cheaper costs and much higher speeds.
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>> Since 1994, the Internet Society has organized INET conferences around the world. Originally staged as annual global conferences, over time it has refined their focus, targeting the specific needs of each region with a focus topics most relevant to the communities involved.
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>> The keynote address will be delivered by J. Scott Marcus (http://scottmarcus.com). Scott has worked as senior adviser to the FCC (USA regulator) and advised the European Commission on how to regulate for Internet growth. Prior to serving on the ARIN board of trustees he was CTO of one of the largest global Internet networks (GTE - Genuity). Scott will present models of regulation that have failed and worked as well as business models that 'work' for users versus those that work for operators.
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>> The one-day event will also feature Steve Song presenting briefly about African undersea cables, a moderated panel discussion between the providers of gigabit internet connections in South Africa (Neotel, Dark Fibre Africa, Telkom, Durban and Cape Town)  and an open microphone for questions and comments on how we can get access at costs that will drive deeper penetration. Those in the industry including policy makers, will get a good idea of what developments they can expect and how they can plan ahead. The full agenda can be found on the wiki http://wiki.isoc.org.za/INET
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>> Details
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>> Date: Monday May 24 - 8am registration - 5pm
>> Venue: Le-Vendome, 20 London Road, Sea Point (Map: http://snipurl.com/vhc6k)
>> Registration: http://isoc.org.za
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>> Note: There will be impressive free wireless access supplied specifically for this event, since this is a free conference with 140 places, you must register soonest to secure a place.
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>> Sponsors
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>> The conference is kindly sponsored by the Internet Society (global), Dark Fibre Africa and the CO.ZA Registry, a division of UniForum SA.
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>> About ISOC
>> The Internet Society (ISOC) provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organisational home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).
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>> About Dark Fibre Africa
>> Dark Fibre Africa owns, operates and maintains a state-of-the-art, secure ducting infrastructure, which enables users of communications capacity to enjoy logical separation and ownership of communications capability, whilst sharing the same physical right of way access routes with their customers. DFA is responsible for financing and constructing ducting infrastructure and making discrete fibre strands available to individual operators of telecommunications services. These operators are then responsible for "lighting" the fibre and onward selling the capacity to their customers.   www.dfafrica.co.za
>>
>> About Uniforum SA
>> UniForum SA is not for profit organisation that has administered the .CO.ZA Internet domain name space since September 1995. Under UniForum's stewardship, the .CO.ZA name space has grown to its current level of over 550,000 domain name registrations. Excess proceeds from domain registrations are used to fund Internet industry initiatives, including social upliftment projects relating to education and enterprise development. UniForum SA is a level II BBBEE contributor.
>>
>> Thank you to our sponsors and the working group who has helped to make this happen.
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