[Chapter-delegates] Ramanou Biaou Honored with 2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity Building

[Veni Markovski]

Congratulations from Bulgarian ISOC, Ramanou!!
Well deserved, and well done!!

Thanks, Judith, for letting us know!

v/

On 10/19/20 14:01, Judith Hellerstein via Chapter-delegates wrote:
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> HI All,
>
> 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
>
> Cheers,
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> Judith Hellerstein
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> ICANN Announcement Alerts
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> *Ramanou Biaou Honored with 2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity
> Building <https://newsalerts.icann.org/HC002020NgR87E00P2R00kd>*
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> 19 October 2020
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> ICANN first introduced
> <https://newsalerts.icann.org/JR2PC20l2E0NS780dg00000> 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.
>
> You can watch an interview with Ramanou Biaou and learn more about the
> award here <https://newsalerts.icann.org/c00022gC0PNR02dET08m700>.
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