By Ifeoma Asika, Correspondent Campuses

Are you an executive, manager or policymaker who wants to put your company, your country and this continent on the Internet development map?

Are you a policymaker who wants to help pull the country out of the digital Siberia of IPv4 and help the country set up a foundation for Internet development based on IPv6? If your response is yes, then this unique virtual course is for you. According to a statement from Marketing and PR Manager at AFRINIC, Susan M.A. Otieno, together with its partners, AFRINIC has trained about 10,000 engineers from almost every country on this continent. But in 2016, when it asked them why they had not initiated or deployed IPv6, the number two reason was … “management”.

They (engineers) say, our managers:

*Lack the vision to vision to drive IPv6 deployment

* Do not understand what kind of support we need to deploy IPv6

If you don’t think that describes you, if you have always wanted to drive IPv6 deployment in your organisation but don’t know how to start since you are not an engineer, if you want to stop engineers using you as an excuse for running an archaic IPv4 network, if you want to put your organisation in the special category of pioneers who are deploying the modern Internet, then AFRINIC’s IPv6 Strategy & Planning workshop is for you.

Dates for the virtual workshop are as follow:

* Day 1 – 9th September 2020

* Day 2 – 10th September 2020

Time: 09:00 – 12:00 UTC

Language: English

The virtual workshop is cost-free for those who are selected and invited.

Interested parties are to follow the Registration link: https://vox.afrinic.net/989612?lang=en

There are 35 spots for this inaugural session, say the organisres and the selected participants will be contacted directly with instructions about the next steps for this unique learning experience.

Registration closes on 3rd September 2020 19:00 UTC!