ENTRY FOR NIRA 2ND ANNUAL .NG WEB AWARDS OPEN

BY JUMOKE OWOOLA

Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) has again called for the 2nd edition of its .NG annual web awards.

    The .NG Web Awards is to celebrate the achievements and innovation of Nigeria internet initiatives. The awards aim to showcase Nigeria businesses, charities, individuals and public and private sector organizations which help to make the internet a more secure, open, accessible and diverse experience for all.

    According to the notification on its website, NIRA believes in the power of the internet and they are determined that the .NG domain name space that it is  responsible for has a positive impact on the lives of internet users.

       “We know there is a lot of really great work out there and we want people to know about it, talk about it, engage with it and put it into the spotlight. Our annual award are open to any organization or individual who are doing great work online using the .NG domain name”

     The new rule attached to this year’s calls says, websites hosted in Nigeria will not be used as criteria to qualify, as such companies with websites hosted outside Nigeria will not be disqualified from the competition.

      AWARD CRITERIA

     The following award criteria must be met by all nominees:

·         Company or organization must have registered and is doing business with a .NG domain name either at the second level or third level

The Domain name must have been registered for over 6months.

    AWARD ICONS

Winners will gain access to .NG Web Award Icon, available in various sizes and various formats for inclusion on websites and marketing collateral.

THE AWARDS

1.Technology Company of the Year

This award is presented to the organization that has demonstrated excellence in innovation and a commitment to the technology community while embracing sound business fundamentals.

2.Most Innovative Web company/organization: 

This award is presented to the organization with the highest investments in their online presence that promotes innovation and marketing.

3. Best Banking Website/Portal

This award is presented to the bank’s website or portal that delivers the best user experience.

4. Best Educational Institution website/portal

This award is presented to the Tertiary Institution/University with the best .edu.ng website/portal; based on how current the website is, the level of local content on the website, ease of use, relevance of the website for delivery of educational services and how dynamic the website is.

5.  Technology Startup company of the year.

This award is presented to the start-ups company that promotes the growth of Nigeria local content under the .NG domain name platform.

6.  Best Hosting Company

This award aims to continuously encourage the growth of local website hosting companies, in Nigeria. This award is presented to best local hosting company in Nigeria whose content are locally hosted within Nigeria.

7.  .NG Media Award

.NG media Award recognizes excellence in Journalism and other media-related activities; based on the level of local and original content promoted.

8. Most valuable Youth organization:

This award is presented to the youth organization that advocates the development of the Nigerian Youth.

9. Public Sector Star Website Award:

This award is presented to the best website/portal of the Government Agency that provides the best user experience.

10.                Digital innovation in State Government:

This award recognizes the State Government that has invested in Technology to promote innovation and local content development.

11.                Making the Internet a safer place:

This award recognizes the company/organization that has actively promoted the safe use of internet to help stimulate the safe, responsible and positive use of the Internet for children and young people in Nigeria.

NiRA, UI, AFRINIC AND ATCON SHOWCASE IMPORTANCE OF IPV6 ADOPTION IN NIGERIA.

BY  JUMOKE OWOOLA

The need to migrate from the Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPV4) to IPV6 in order to deepen internet penetration in the country was the major reason for The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) in partnership with the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) and the University of Ibadan to come together to organize a workshop few days ago for the Internet Service Providers (USPs) and content producers in Nigeria.

Welcoming the participants to the workshop, NIRA’s President, Rev. Sunday Folayan, said the new internet protocol, IPv6 would open a pool of Internet addresses that is about a billion-trillion times larger than the total pool of IPv4 address, which he said is about 4.3 billion addresses. He added that the number of IPV6 is virtually inexhaustible for the foreseeable growth of the domain name system due the opening of the new gTLDs and the emerging Internet of Things (IoTs).

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“Most developed world have already embraced IPv6 competing for positions in the global ranking on IPv6 adoption, saying that the major content producers such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, have all adapted IPv6 giving the opportunity to IPv6 networks access to their content.

 “One of the challenges identified for lack of IPv6 adoption in Nigeria is the lack of the required technical skills. I believe the training will expose participants further to the need for IPv6 and will equip them with the right set of skills to assist their various organisations to migrate to IPv6 so that Nigeria will occupy it’s rightful position in the global IPv6 ranking”

Folayan went further that most of the developed world has already embraced IPv6 with country competing for positions in the global ranking on IPv6, but unfortunately, most African countries are late on this migration with Nigeria particularly lagging behind even within Africa.

“This should not be taken lightly, considering that we have the largest number of Internet users in Africa. For example, out of 103 Autonomous System Numbers registered in Nigeria only four are live on IPv6; yet the four are not propagating it properly on the net. Over 30 organisations have acquire IPv6 from AFRINIC but most of them are not using it,” He concluded with much concern.

 In his own vein, ATCON President, Olusola Teniola who was represented by its pioneer Vice President, Eng. Anthony Nwosu opined that the need to migrate to IPv6 is long overdue and that the majority of networks in Nigeria are not IPv6 compatible, which is already posing huge threat to the Nigerian ICT development.

“Other reasons the ATCON has invested and still investing heavily in the adoption of IPv6, is to increase the productivity and contribution level of our network engineers in the implementation and deployment of IPv6 for Nigerian ICT/telecoms development, in order to enhance the performance of our network engineers on network management with the ultimate goal of ensuring the sustainable growth of the Nigeria telecom industry,” Teniola’s representative revealed.

Muhammed Rudman, the Managing Director, Internet eXchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) who is also the Vice President of NIRA (who spoke for AFRINIC), said most of ISPs in Nigeria did not want to migrate from IPv64 to IPv6 because they thought it would not give them any economic value. He however called on ISPs to embrace the adoption of the new IPv6 due of its advantages.

“This  workshop is organised to enhance the capacity of people and to encourage the adoption of ipv6 in Nigeria”.Rudman said.

 The Acting Director general of NITDA, Dr. Vincent Olatunji who declared the workshop closed said that his organization will always support any good idea that can promote ICT in Nigeria.

Participants were drawn from all over the country.

NiRA Partners ATCON, UI To Host International Workshop On IPV6

BY JUMOKE OWOOLA

REV. SUNDAY FOLAYAN, NIRA PRESIDENT

Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA),The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON)  and University of Ibadan (UI) in partnership with Africa Network Information Center (AfriNIC), have concluded plans to organize a 4day International Workshop on “Internet Number Resources Management (INRM) and IPv6 Planning and Deployment” in Lagos from August 23 to 26, 2016. This is part of AFRINIC annual free extensive training program for over 600 network engineers, with priority given to AFRINIC members.

In  a Press release sent and signed by the trio of AjibolaOlude, Dr. Seyi Osunade and Edith Udeagu of NIRA respectively, participation at the workshop is targeted at Network Engineers in the Nigerian ICT ecosystem including the academics. Resource persons for this workshop are international experts coming from outside Nigeria

The workshop is expected to:

• Provide impetus for Nigerian Network operators to migrate from IPV4 to IPV6 with its attendant advantages
• Provide qualitative training for those engineers that managed our networks which would help, as we tackle the problem of quality of service in the telecommunication industry
• Provide Nigerian Network Engineers with the required knowledge to compete favourably with their counterpart in the global market.
• Enhance, as well upgrade, the performance of our Network Engineers on network management with the ultimate goal of ensuring the sustainable growth of the Nigerian ICT ecosystem.
• Boost the productivity level of our network engineers.
• For more details, visit AFRINIC dedicated training portal at http://learn.afrinic.net

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NIRA STAFF SUPPORTS BOSS, EDITH UDEAGU AT FATHER'S FUNERAL

By Jumoke Owoola

Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) staff and management threw their moral support behind their Chief Operating officer (COO), Mrs. Edith Udeagu who recently lost her father, Ambassador Victor  N. Chibundu  to the hands of death at a ripen age of 85. 

They were conspicuously present at all the events earmarked for the burial. Leading the team was the NIRA President, Rev. Sunday Folayan, his Vice, Mr. Mohammed Rudman accompanied by his beautiful wife, also  Mr. Sikiru Shehu, NIRA financial secretary ; Olusegun Akinwumi, Busayo Atoki and a host of others  were at the special celebrations, which started from the Chinese town Ojota and ended at Umuojima in Nsala Ngwa local government council of Abia state.

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NIRA, others endorse Expo for ICTEL

By Jumoke Owoola

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Nigerian Internet Registration Agency (NIRA), and other bodies recently endorsed the 2016 ICT and Telecommunication Expo coming up at Eko Hotel & Suites from July 26th 2016.

Mr. Atoyebi Joseph Olufemi who represents NCC in the organizing committee of the 2016 ICTEL EXPO says NCC will continue to show its support to this laudable initiative by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Mr. Adebiyi Oladipo, Treasurer (7 th left) and Mr. Sikiru Shehu, Financial Secretary (5 th right) both on the Executive Board of Directors of NIRA and staff of NIRA displayed NIRA’S commitment to supporting the ICTEL EXPO as they handed over the endorsement letter for the 2016 ICTEL EXPO to Mr. Whyte Otokini (3 rd left) for the LCCI during a courtesy visit to the agency.

The LCCI also earlier this year got endorsement from the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, The Federal Ministry of Science & Technology, and the Lagos State Ministry of Science & Technology for the 2016 ICTEL EXPO.

Other bodies such as The National Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS), NITDA, CPN, ALTON, ISPAN, NCS,ATCON, and the Nigerian Internet Group also endorsed the event.

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Evergreen Echoes From NiRA Web Awards Night In Photos

BY GOLDMARK ADEOJO