🗣️Save The Date! The African Peering and Interconnection Forum #AFPIF is taking place from 22 to 24 August 2023 in Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭. Look out for more details on our website: afpif.org. Subscribe to receive updates: forms.internetsociety.org/afpif-2023. See you🫵🏽 all there!

Smart Africa and Internet Society signed #MoU to collaborate in various aspects, including community network development, measuring internet resilience and reliability, and capacity building. #TAS2023 #digitaltransformation

With your help, we can collectively improve the security of the NAPAfrica #ecosystem with MANRS. Take the proactive step of becoming a participant. Together, we can shape the future of #routingsecurity and build a safer #internet for all. #manrs manrs.org

Our network was nuked out totally from the global routing table due to direct damage to our server room, our (.sd) ccTLD services are running without downtime, thanks to #CoCCA INX ZA SdNOG teams. #Sudan #Internet #icann

Hello Lusaka! We are very happy to announce that we are active and ready for #peering at Lusaka Internet Exchange Point! Thank you #LuIXP team for helping us to build a faster, more secure and more resilient DNS infrastructure! #dns #peering #Quad9

My colleague Aftab Siddiqui taking participants through implementing #MANRS MENOG. Do you want to know more about MANRS? Please reach out to us this week at #MENOG23

The Internet was built to be a resource for people. To foster innovation, share knowledge, and strengthen connections.💙🌐 With each year, the Internet provides more and more opportunities. This #GivingTuesday, help us protect this critical resource: ow.ly/3cmH50QbYhx

To our Quad9 followers and supporters, please be aware of this imposter account @Quad9lDNS - notice the subtle insertion of the "l" - trying to report them but X makes it harder these days 🫤

I can vouch for these people as they are excellent and committed Engineers. They are looking for opportunities in the UAE or Remotely. and I would appreciate it if you could consider them for any open positions that match their skills and experience, Thank you! ☺️

This Morning, AHERI institute director Owino Odera & Barrack Otieno - Chairman of the Association of #CommunityNetworks in Kenya met with Eng. John Kipchumba Tanui, MBS - PS State Dept for ICT & #DigitalEconomy Ministry of Info, Comms & The Digital Economy KE

Its me again. Internet to East Africa is severely impaired. All sub sea capacity between East Africa and South Africa is down. EASSy Cable - Fault confirmed Seacom Cable - Observing Fault that occurred at same time. 3 cable cuts in Red Sea (Seacom, EIG, AAE1) remain unrepaired.

Day 2 of my Run the Internet challenge, where I'm running 5 miles a day for a 35 mile week. Support me, the Internet Society and an Internet for everyone: donate.internetsociety.org/run-the-intern… 1/

Internet in Kenya is functioning pretty normally. On Saturday I observed 2-3 times the average traffic volumes to Twitter due to a busy online X Space event. All others, Tiktok, Telegram, and other comms and social media are usual traffic levels with no indicators of throttling.

STATEMENT: Shutting down or internet throttling, shadow-banning hashtags, or banning live reporting are gross violations of human rights. Kenyans have the right to organize, demonstrate, and engage in policymaking. #ProtectTheProtest #TotalShutdownKenya amnestykenya.org/statement-on-p…

According to Netblocks, NetBlocks , The ongoing Internet issues in Kenya are affecting all of East Africa too! Flora Limukii Eliud Owalo, FIHRM, EGH

We're at Internet Society West Africa Peering Forum (WAPF) 2024 this week! Ben Ryall will give a PeeringDB presentation in tomorrow afternoon's session. Come talk to us! internetsociety.org/events/west-af… #peering #interconnection #wapf2024 #africa

A press release by Access Now Calls for Restoration of Internet Continuity in Kenya, and its Digital Superhighway which is critical to the entire East African Region accessnow.org/press-release/… Peter Micek Michuki Mwangi Jane Coffin #KeepItOn

🚨 Appel à tous les experts en interconnexion et contenu ! L’appel à communications pour l’AfPIF 2024 est ouvert. Soumettez vos propositions avant le 15 juillet 2024 pour présenter à Kinshasa, RDC, du 20 au 22 août 2024. ow.ly/VsPu50SsVwk #AfPIF2024 #AppelÀCommunications

THE ROLE OF THE INTERNET IN NATURAL DISASTERS 🛜 During emergencies, connectivity becomes essential for impacted communities and those involved in emergency response efforts. Our Resiliency Program offers grants of up to USD$500,000. ➡️ Full article: isoc.pub/3zJVobY

Applications for Pulse Research Consultancy to develop an econometric model to analyze the economics of peering and interconnection close on 31 August. Apply now! pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/pulse-sho…