23 June 2017 - We are pleased to inform that the Board has re-elected Mr Sunday Folayan and Mr Haitham El Nakhal as Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively, for a period of 1 year terms.

The Board Standing Committees have been reconstituted as follows;

Remuneration Committee

• Lucky Masilela
• Sunday Folayan
• Serge Ilunga
• Alan Barrett

Finance Committee

• Haitham El Nakhal
• Subramanian Moonesamy
• Alan Barrett

Audit Committee

• Christian Bope
• Abibu Ntahigiye
• Seun Ojedeji

July 4 2017 - AFRINIC is announcing the call for applications for the 2017 FIRE Africa Innovation Grants and Awards.

This year, the available types of Grants and Awards are:

• The FIRE Africa Grants which provides two Grants of USD12,500 and USD10,000 respectively.
• The FIRE Africa Awards which provides three Awards of USD3,000. The FIRE Award consists of a USD 3,000 cash prize plus full travel and accommodation for one representative of each project to attend the awards ceremony, and participate in sessions which will be held in Switzerland during the 2017 Internet Governance Forum.

The application deadline for the 2017 Awards and Grants is 31^st July 2017, 23:59 UTC.

For detailed information about competition categories, conditions of entry, and submission procedures, please visit www.fireafrica.org or send us an email at:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Subventions et prix FIRE Africa 2017: Appel à candidatures

AFRINIC annonce l'appel à candidatures pour son programme de subventions et le prix FIRE Africa Innovation 2017.

Cette année, les types de subventions et les prix disponibles sont les suivants:

• Les subventions FIRE Africa qui fournissent deux subventions de USD12,500 et USD10,000, respectivement.
• Les prix FIRE Africa qui offrent trois prix de USD3,000. Le prix FIRE comprend un prix en espèces de 3,000 USD plus un voyage complet et un hébergement pour un représentant de chaque projet pour assister à la cérémonie de remise des prix et participer aux sessions qui se tiendront en Suisse lors du Forum sur la gouvernance de l'Internet de 2017.

La date limite d'inscription pour les prix et subventions 2017 a été fixée pour le 31 juillet 2017, 23:59 UTC.

Pour plus d'informations sur les différentes catégories, les conditions d'entrée et les procédures de soumission, merci de visiter www.fireafrica.org ou envoyez-nous un courriel à:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

July 14 2017 - We are pleased to inform you that our annual report 2016 is now published.
Click here to read the AFRINIC Annual Report 2016.

19 July 2017 - The AFRINIC Board of Directors intends to establish an Appeal Committee to give effect to the requirements in section 3.5 of the Consolidated Policy Manual (that is, the Conflict resolution portion of the Policy Development Process). The Appeal Committee Terms of Reference (version 1) is published at <https://afrinic.net/en/community/working-groups/policy-appeal>.

The Board calls for comments on the Terms of Reference for a 30 day period, ending on 19 August 2017. Comments may be sent to the RPD mailing list <rpd at afrinic.net>.

The Board intends to appoint an interim Appeal Committee without delay, to cater for the possibility that an appeal might be filed before the comments on the Terms of reference can be taken into account. We seek the cooperation of the community in this regard.

Sunday Folayan

Chair of the AFRINIC Board of Directors

2 August 2017 - AFRINIC is offering fellowships for the AFRINIC-27 meeting to be held in Lagos, Nigeria, from 27 November to 2 December 2017.

The fellowship is reserved for individuals representing small organisations, universities, and media who are actively involved in Internet operations and development or ICT policies in their countries.

The fellow is expected to positively and actively contribute to IP address management awareness in the AFRINIC service region.

To qualify for the fellowship, you:

1) Must be a resident of an African nation

2) Don't need to be an AFRINIC member

3) Are involved in the Internet community.

4) Are willing to report on how this fellowship has benefited you/your Organisation/country within an agreed time frame. 

Upon selection, AFRINIC will notify the selected fellows directly and allow them seven (7) days to accept or reject the offer.

A public announcement of the fellowship awardees will be made after the acceptance by the selected candidates.

Please find hereafter the schedule for the fellowship process:

Close of applications:  25 August 2017 

Notification to selected fellows: 11 September 2017

Deadline for acceptance by awarded fellow: 20 September 2017

Final announcement and publication of the fellowship list: 26 September 2017

The fellowship includes:

1. Full assistance with round-trip airfare to the meeting venue

2. Hotel accommodation for the AFRINIC event from the day before the beginning to the last day of the event

If you think you meet the criteria above, please fill in the fellowship application form at https://registration.afrinic.net/board2017/afrinic-27-fellowship and submit it with requested information before 25 August 2017, 00:00 UTC.

Good luck and we look forward to receiving your applications!

4 August 2017 - The application period for the FIRE Africa Grants and Awards ended on 2nd August 2017 having run for a whole month.

The FIRE Award consists of a USD 3,000 cash prize plus full travel and accommodation for one representative of each project to attend the awards ceremony, and participate in sessions which will be held in Switzerland during the 2017 Internet Governance Forum.

We received a total of 56 Award applications distributed as follows per category:

1. Internet Development: 4 applications 
2. Internet for Social Inclusion: 5 applications.
3. ICT for Development: 47

The Award applications came from 18 countries namely Kenya (10) Benin (1), Nigeria (10), Ivory Coast (4), Tanzania (2), Ghana (1), DRC (6), Cameroon (8), South Africa (2), Mauritius (2), Mali(1), Togo (1),  Uganda (3), Rwanda(1), Botswana (1), Egypt (1), Sierra Leon(1) ,Malawi (1)

The 2017 Awards Criteria is available at http://fireafrica.org/awards.

The FIRE Grant consists of a USD 12,500 grant and a $10,000 Google grant to implement a project of choice within a period of one year.  

We received a total of 190 Grant applications distributed as follows per category:

1. Technical Innovation: 21 applications 
2. Community Development: 84 applications.
3. Governance Enhancement: 5 applications
4. Education: 79 applications

The Grant applications came from 34 countries namely Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Tunisia, Togo, The Gambia, Tanzania, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Mozambique, Morocco, Mauritius, Mali, Malawi, Madagascar, Libya, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Ghana, Ethiopia, Djibouti, DRC, Chad, Central Africa Republic, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Burundi, Botswana, Benin,.

Grants criteria is available at http://fireafrica.org/grant  

The next steps will involve our Jurors analysing the Award and grants applications, and announcing the winners.