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

[tatauwal]

A hearty congratulations from ISOC Nigeria to Ramanou. May we live to see
more of this celebration of achievements.

Auwal Tata
Secretary General

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, 19:01 Judith Hellerstein via Chapter-delegates, <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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,
>
> Judith Hellerstein
>
> Accessibility SIG, Secretary
>
> Member, ISOC DC
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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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> 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.
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