[Chapter-delegates] NEWS: Fellowships Presented to 14 Technologists to Attend Internet Engineering Task Force Meeting in Vancouver, Canada

Tue Nov 5 06:40:42 PST 2013

Congratulation  to all .Wishes all of you get good experience  on core
technologies which would be help our internet community.

Regards  //  Jahangir Hossain
                 ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Wende Cover <cover at isoc.org> wrote:

>  Fellowships Presented to 14 Technologists to Attend Internet Engineering
> Task Force Meeting in Vancouver, Canada
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> Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF foster technical leadership in
> developing and emerging economies
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> [Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada] -- The Internet Society has awarded
> new and returning fellowships to 14 talented engineers to attend the
> Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting being held 3-8 November in
> Vancouver, Canada.
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> The Internet Society Fellowships enable technologists from developing and
> emerging economies to participate in and contribute to the IETF meetings.
> The IETF, the Internet’s premier standards-making body, represents an
> international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and
> researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the
> continuing evolution of Internet architecture.
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> This round of the highly competitive Internet Society Fellowships to the
> IETF garnered more than 120 applications from 44 countries. The Fellows
> selected have a demonstrated interest in Internet standards and the work of
> the IETF. First-time Fellows are paired with an experienced mentor and are
> given the opportunity to make a positive contribution to IETF work.
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> Toral Cowieson, Senior Director of Internet Leadership at the Internet
> Society, commented, "The Internet Society Fellowships help to increase the
> global awareness of and diversity of participants to the IETF’s vital work.
> The Fellows have the opportunity to participate in the development of open
> Internet standards and best practices, while making valuable connections
> with peers sharing similar interests. Through this experience, the Fellows
> gain important new insights to inform their work and research.”
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> The Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF in 2013 are made possible by
> donations from Internet Society Organization members Afilias, Google,
> Microsoft, NBCUniversal, SIDN, and Verisign. Since its inception in 2006,
> this programme has made more than 200 awards to technologists from more
> than 40 developing countries to participate in IETF meetings.
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> The first-time Internet Society Fellows for IETF 88 are:
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> Dr. Michael Adeyeye (Nigeria) is an executive partner at Asmic Computers
> NG & SA and a senior research fellow at the Cape Peninsula University of
> Technology, South Africa. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He is
> interested in the RTCWeb and the P2PSIP Working Groups (WG), and looks
> forward to contributing more to its (RTCWeb) on-going standardization.
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> Anton Baskov (Russian Federation) is an independent solution architect and
> a programme committee member of Eurasian Network Operators Group. He led
> courses on key Internet technologies and software architecture at Saint
> Petersburg State University, faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. His
> interests include Domain Name System related technologies, as well as
> application level data formats.
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> José Del Moral (Venezuela) is from Falcón, Venezuela and graduated from
> the Universidad de Los Andes, in Merida, Venezuela with a degree in Systems
> Engineering. He has been working most recently as a Technical Support
> Engineer for Innovantis Techonologies. His main interest is to participate
> in the Energy Management Working Group.
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> Adama Dembele (Mali) is an IT network engineer and a major actor in the
> free software movement in Mali and Africa. He is working in a government
> service called CTRCA. He is involved in the IPv6 Maintenance Working
> Group.
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> Jorge Escalante (Venezuela) is from Merida, Venezuela, and a Systems
> Engineer from the Universidad de Los Andes. He is currently working as a
> Software Development Engineer for Katanoia and also supporting a
> family-owned technology company. His main interest is in the application
> area, especially on web services such as security, protocols, XML, and HTML.
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> Md Abdul Awal (Bangladesh) works as a network engineer in Bangladesh
> Research and Education Network (BdREN), the National REN in Bangladesh. He
> is an active volunteer of the Internet Society Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter. He
> also started a non-profit voluntary learning organization named Network
> Development Learning Center (NDLC). NDLC is founded with the aim to
> practice and share basic networking and Internet based primary knowledge to
> university students and young network professionals. His interests are
> routing, switching, and security areas especially on mpls, l2vpn, l3vpn,
> IPsec, pim, v6ops, DNSOP working groups.
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> Talgat Nurlybayev (Kazakhstan) has been working for many years in ICT at
> various ISPs and is now teaching networking at the Information Technology
> University in Almaty. His interests are IPv6 and SDN. He hopes that while
> attending the IETF meeting, he will have a chance to take part in
> discussing new trends in Internet technology.
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> Edwin Opare (Ghana) is a Russian-trained Computer Engineer. He is a
> Technical Manager at the National Information Technology Agency (
> www.nita.gov.gh), the IT regulator in Ghana. He is actively involved in
> the re-delegation of the .gh ccTLD from the current custodian to the
> Government of Ghana (NITA) where he will be performing several roles
> related to DNS security and development on behalf of the Government of
> Ghana. He is also Secretary for the Internet Society Ghana Chapter and
> actively involved in providing Internet related capacity building and
> training to Internet Society members, the Government of Ghana, and private
> sector network engineers.
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> Julio C. Ortega (Venezuela) is a Systems Engineer and has been involved in
> Platform / Infrastructure / DevOps work since 2002. He has also been deeply
> involved with the advancement of the Free / Open Source communities and
> movements in his country, as a founding member of LUGs, and voluntarily
> participating in others.  He is interested in the qresync, websec, and scim
> Working Groups.
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> Ed Pascoe (South Africa) is from Johannesburg, South Africa and works for
> Domain Name Services. They provide technical support to the ZA Central
> Registry.  He is currently responsible for most of the existing whois
> servers for .co.za and is very interested in the WEIRDS project to find a
> better replacement for whois.  In his spare time, he works on a WEIRDS
> server for .co.za, which will hopefully be used in several of the newer
> gtlds.
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> The Returning Fellows for the 88th IETF meeting are:
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> Xiaohong Deng (China) was a former researcher and project leader with
> Orange Labs Beijing for five years. She has attended IETF since 2010,
> participating primarily in the PCP, Softwire and V6ops Working Groups,
> which concerned with client/server Port Control Protocol (PCP), IPv4 in
> IPv6 or IPv6 in IPv4 tunnels and operational guidance in the context of
> IPv6 transition, respectively. She is co-author of several Working Group
> drafts and has made significant and acknowledged contributions to RFC6346,
> RFC6887, and RFC6970.  Her areas of interests are IPv6 and its transition.
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> Paul Muchene (Kenya) is both a web startup entrepreneur and network
> professional working for a Kenyan innovation space known as the iHub.
> His areas of interest are in the security and cryptographic areas with
> respect to DNS and DNSSEC.  This has led him to join and contribute to the
> DANE Working Group.
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> Amir Quayyum (Pakistan) is an Electrical Engineer, and a PhD in wireless
> networks from France. He is currently a professor at M. A. Jinnah
> University, Islamabad, and teaches computer network related subjects since
> 2001. He is also part of the group CoReNeT (Center of Research in Networks
> and Telecom, www.corenet.org.pk) and is associated with the local
> Internet Society chapter.  His main interests are in the Working Groups
> MANET and MTCP, besides IRTF DTNRG group.
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> Peer Azmat Shah (Pakistan) is involved in research activity for his PhD at
> Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He is also a lecturer in the
> Computer Science Department at COMSATS, Pakistan, and teaches Routing and
> Switching, Networks Security, and Advance Computer Networks. He works on
> distributed mobility management and following IETF's DMM, mif and TSVWG
> Working Groups. He has authored/co-authored 17 ISI-indexed Journal
> publications, Scopus-indexed Conference publications and book chapters that
> are published by IEEE, ACM, SpringerLink, and Elsevier.
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