[Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Kanchana Kanchanasut Honored with Jonathan B. Postel Service Award

[Jahangir Hossain]

Congratulations to Dr. Kanchana Kanchanasut for the prestigious
recognition .



​Thank you ,
​ ​

Jahangir Hosain


On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was wonderful to see Kanchana receive the Postel Award yesterday
> evening at the IETF meeting in Seoul.  Very well deserved for her work to
> bring the Internet to Thailand and Southeast Asia!
>
> Bob
>
> > On Nov 16, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Greg Wood <wood at isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > The news release below will be distributed shortly.
> >
> > -Greg
> >
> > KANCHANA KANCHANASUT HONORED WITH JONATHAN B. POSTEL SERVICE AWARD
> >
> > Pioneer recognized for three decades of spreading the Internet across
> Southeast Asia
> >
> > Seoul, South Korea -- November 16, 2016 -- The Internet Society today
> announced that its prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award was
> presented to Dr. Kanchana Kanchanasut, a leading computer scientist in
> Thailand and Vice President of Research at the Asian Institute of
> Technology (AIT). The award was presented for her pioneering work in
> establishing the Internet is Southeast Asia and for enabling countless
> others to spread the Internet across the region.
> >
> > Dr. Kanchansut was selected by an international award committee
> comprised of former Jonathan B. Postel award winners. The committee placed
> particular emphasis on candidates who have supported and enabled others in
> addition to their own specific actions.
> >
> > Dr. Kanchanasut was among the first to bring the Internet to Thailand in
> the 1980s.  In 1986, at the Asian Institute of Technology,  she teamed up
> with her Japanese colleague  to connect by email from their institute, AIT
> in Thailand,  to the rest of the world at that time which enabled email
> conversations with computer scientists outside the country.  After working
> to increase connections beyond Thailand, with many other countries in the
> region and the global networking community through the 1990’s, Dr.
> Kanchanasut set up the Internet Education and Research Laboratory
> (intERLab) at AIT to provide much needed capacity building for Internet
> engineers for the region in addition to producing a steady stream of
> graduates in Computer Science and Engineering for students from all across
> Asia.  In 2015, Dr. Kanchanasut started the Bangkok Neutral Internet
> Exchange (BKNIX),  the first open and neutral Internet Exchange Point in
> Southeast Asia.
> >
> > In recognition of her substantial contribution to the Internet in Asia,
> Dr. Kanchanasut was also inducted into the Internet Society’s Internet Hall
> of Fame program and virtual museum in 2013.
> >
> > “Kanchana’s devotion and pioneering work has helped extend the Internet
> to people both in Thailand and the across southeast Asia,” said Gonzalo
> Camarillo, Chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees, who presented
> the award to Kanchana. “Beyond the networking infrastructure, her work has
> spread understanding about the Internet across academia, industry and
> government.”
> >
> > The Postel Award was established by the Internet Society to honor
> individuals or organizations that, like Jon Postel, have made outstanding
> contributions to the data communications community. The award is focused on
> sustained and substantial technical contributions, service to the
> community, and leadership.
> >
> > The Internet Society presented the award, including a US$20,000
> honorarium and a crystal engraved globe, during the 97th meeting of the
> Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held in Seoul, South Korea, 13-18
> November 2016. For more information about the Jonathan B. Postel Service
> Award, please see: https://www.internetsociety.org/postel
> >
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