[Aftld-members] The Africa Domain Name System Forum Awards Call for nominations

[Barrack Otieno]

Background

This year, the Africa DNS Forum, a journey that started in 2013, turns 
10 years old. It has been a decade of mixed results, great insights, 
challenges, and opportunities. We are confident of the tremendous 
success witnessed in the industry and the opportunities that abound 
considering the DNS landscape in Africa which could not have been 
achieved without the support of various actors within and beyond the 
African continent. One of the objectives of the forum inception is to 
recognize, reward, appreciate and acknowledge excellence in the Africa 
DNS Marketplace. This would be by establishing a well thought out and 
transparent criteria for selecting deserving individual and 
institutional players who have made significant contribution to the 
overall growth and development of the Africa DNS Industry and 
marketplace.

Categories of the Awards


There will be two categories of awards during this 10th Africa DNS Forum

Recognition and Acknowledgement Award (Ten in total): This award will 
target institutions and / or individuals who were outstanding in 
contributing to the development of the DNS industry in Africa; Could be 
organizers of the DNS Forum or any other events that have contributed to 
DNS development in Africa.
Africa DNS Excellence Award: (Two in total) to be offered to one 
institution and one individual who have been demonstrated being 
innovative and successful in maintaining a resilient and sustainable 
development of the DNS industry in Africa. Target institutions could 
include but not limited to registries, registrars, registrants, ISPs, or 
research institutions. This would be an annual award going forward.

Selection Criteria

The Ideal candidates may be organizations or Individuals that meet some 
of most of the below properties.
Developing capacity-building programs that positively influenced African 
DNS landscape
Past Hosts for Africa DNS Forums
Consistent sponsors of Africa DNS Forum over the years
Establishment and Promotion of National DNS Fora Across Africa
Championing innovative solutions to improve the African DNS Marketplace
Individuals should be of African nationality
Promoting Research in the Africa DNS Market Place
Institutions / organizations headquartered in Africa



Selection Panel

A community based review panel of eminent personalities in the domain 
name ecosystem will consider the nominations in light of the criteria 
and recommend a short list of nominees for each category to the 
organizing partners of the Africa DNS Forum for consideration and 
adoption.

The  members of the selection panel include:

Prof Souleymane  Oumtanga
Prof. Prof Nicolas Razafindrakoto
Hadia El Miniawi
Oluniyi Ajao
Ramanou Biaou
Mary Uduma

The panel shall select their own chair and agree on working methods, and 
the secretariat of the Africa DNS forum would offer any necessary 
support to the panel to ensure they execute their work within the 
required timelines.

Timelines
The call for nominations shall be publicly published online in the 
Africa DNS website: www.dnsforum.africa  and potential nominees and 
interested candidates requested to send their nominations via email to 
awards at dnsforum.africa. The following is a proposed timeline of 
activities:
Call for Nominations published online by Sept 12, 2022
Deadline for receiving nominations is Sept 19, 2022
Deadline for Consideration and Evaluation of Nominations Sept 23, 2022
Selected Nominees are submitted to the Secretariat by Sept 26, 2022.
The recipients will be officially unveiled during the Africa DNS Forum 
Gala on October 5, 2022.


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Barrack Otieno

General Manager

Africa Top Level Domains Organization

+254721325277

www.aftld.org

'The Regional Association of African ccTLDs