ICANN58 NextGen@ICANN Application Round Now Open

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ICANN is looking for the next generation of individuals interested in becoming engaged in their regional communities and shaping the future of global Internet policy. Important work is happening every day at ICANN. If you're ready to start your ICANN journey, ICANN58 Copenhagen could be the place to begin!

This application round will stay open until 4 November 2016. Successful candidates will be announced on the ICANN website,ICANN.org[icann.org], on 2 December 2016.

https://www.icann.org/development-and-public-responsibility/nextgen

Kathryn Brown Thanks ISOC Members

Hi ISOC Global Member, I wanted to specially thank you for your participation and help in making InterCommunity a success. Along with more than 2,600 Internet Society members from 160 countries, you showed the strength and quality of our community. I feel personally inspired by what we have achieved in 24hrs. It is by working together this way that we will consolidate a trusted Internet and make sure it is available to those who need it the most. The event is over, but our collaborative work continues. I would like to invite you to follow the conversation on our Open Forum. This where you can continue to raise questions, make comments and share ideas. If you have some time, we would also like to have your comments, ideas and any other feedback, you might have so that we can keep improving this event. Finally, I wanted to thank all of our speakers, trustees and the dedication of our staff for making a global, online event like this happen. I hope to see you soon in our discussions, next events and certainly at InterCommunity 2017. Best,  Kathryn Brown  Internet Society, President/CEO

Become a #WINsiders4Good Nigeria Fellow

#WINsiders4Good Nigeria Fellowship

We belong to the Windows Insiders, the greatest community of people in the world who use the Windows technology we love to eradicate the problems we hate. We are thrilled to announce the #WINsiders4Good Nigeria Fellowship.

We are looking for people like you, Nigerian entrepreneurs who can't stop thinking of that idea you have that will solve a local problem as well as improve the lives of your fellow Nigerians. 

We would like to build a fellowship of 20 Nigerian entrepreneurs to become our first ever, inaugural class of #WINsider4Good Fellows. If chosen, you will receive hardware and software along with 6 months of tailored technical and strategic mentorship from local and international leaders to help bring your unique idea to life. 

Please apply now, the deadline is approaching quickly on October 10, 2016.

Learn more at FAQ.

For additional questions, contact us at wifellows@microsoft.com

IMPORTANT DATES
Round 1 Application Opens: September 21, 2016
Round 1 Application Closes: October 10, 2016
Round 2 Application Opens: October 17, 2016
Round 2 Application Closes: October 24, 2016
Fellows Announced: November 16, 2016
Fellowship Bootcamp: November 16 – 22, 2016
Mentorship Program: January 4 - June 30, 2017

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Internet Society CEO picks Salam Yamout as Middle East Regional Director

The Internet Society today announced that it has opened a new regional bureau in the Middle East and appointed Salam Yamout to the role of Regional Director.

Ms. Yamout brings over 25 years of experience to her new role where she will be responsible for building awareness of the Internet Society and advancing its mission of promoting access to the Internet for the benefit of people everywhere.

Prior to joining the Internet Society, Ms. Yamout was the National Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Strategy Coordinator for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, in Beirut, Lebanon. She was responsible for planning and implementing national ICT projects in addition to advising on regulatory and legislative issues related to ICT as well as Internet Governance.

Ms. Yamout is founder and executive board member of the Lebanese Internet Center and the Lebanon Chapter of the Internet Society. She also serves on the board of various organizations including RIPE NCC (the Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia); MIT Enterprise Forum for the Pan Arab Region, and Lebanon for Entrepreneurs.

“The Internet Society has been looking for the right person who can help us engage with regional partners, policy makers and Internet communities throughout the Middle East. With her extensive experience in technology and working with various stakeholders in the region, she is well positioned to help the Internet Society promote the benefits of an open, trusted, Internet,” explains Raúl Echeberría, Vice President of Global Engagement for the Internet Society.

Mr. Yamout holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) in Beirut and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona. She will be based in Beirut, Lebanon.

About the Internet Society

The Internet Society, www.internetsociety.org, is the trusted independent source for Internet information and thought leadership from around the world. It is also the organizational home for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). With its principled vision and substantial technological foundation, the Internet Society promotes open dialogue on Internet policy, technology, and future development among users, companies, governments, and other organizations.

Working with its members and Chapters around the world, the Internet Society enables the continued evolution and growth of the Internet for everyone.

Simply join them today. Go to www.isoc.org.

Invitation to the Eleventh Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum

On behalf of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, I have the pleasure to invite you to the 2016 Internet Governance Forum (IGF): ‘Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth’, to be held from 6 to 9 December 2016, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The 2016 IGF marks the first IGF following its 10-year mandate renewal by the General Assembly at the WSIS+10 High Level Event last year. The overall programme is being built in a bottom-up manner in consultation with the growing IGF community, supported by multi-stakeholder intersessional activities, with a view to enhancing wide-ranging and diverse multistakeholder participation, including stakeholders from developing countries, youth, newcomers to the IGF and those joining online.

The four-day  11^th IGF meeting  will feature interactive  dialogue and debate  and will address a broad  range of themes and issues including, but not limited to: Internet and Sustainable Development; Access and Diversity; Youth and Gender Issues; Human Rights and Freedom of Expression Online; Cybersecurity; Multistakeholder Cooperation; Critical Internet Resources; Internet Governance Capacity Building and Emerging Issues.

I would also like to take this opportunity to invite all stakeholders to join the growing IGF community intersessional activities. These activities, including IGF Best Practice Forums (BPFs), work on the Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion(s) initiative and IGF Dynamic Coalitions, offer unique multi-stakeholder platforms for substantive collaboration on a wide array of Internet governance themes and issues. This community work will be showcased, and open for further consultation, at the annual meeting in Mexico.

Many of the growing number of National and Regional IGF Initiatives (NRIs) will be holding meetings as well between now and the annual global IGF meeting and all stakeholders are encouraged to join these important meetings. The IGF is working together with the NRIs to enhance linkages and leverage the synergies among them and with the IGF. . . .

SOURCE: 

http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/invitation-to-the-eleventh-meeting-of-the-internet-governance-forum

Segun Odegbami International College/Sports Academy: TIA changes name

Promoters of Nigeria’s first multi-sports secondary school, The International Academy (TIA), at the weekend announced that the school’s name has been changed to Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy (SOCA).

In a statement on Friday, the school said the name change became necessary to reflect the next phase in its development.

According to the statement, “the school was established and named ‘The International Sports Academy’ to reflect its dual purpose of providing a perfect environment and training, where young boys and girls with talent in sports and a passion for academics come to combine and excel in both.

Source

http://guardian.ng/sport/tia-becomes-segun-odegbami-international-collegesports-academy/

Undeclared Oil Exports: Nigeria vs TOTAL / AGIP

A Nigerian court will next week begins hearing two suits instituted by government to recover a total of $635m from two multinational oil companies, Total and Agip as the cost of the difference between the amount of crude oil the companies lifted and the quantity they declared.

In the two cases to be presided over by Justice Olatoregun Isola, Nigeria is asking Total E&P and Nigeria Agip Oil Company to pay the sum of $490,517,280 and $145,848,102 respectively as costs of undeclared or under-declared crude oil they exported from Nigeria.

In the statement of claim filed before the court accompanied by the sworn affidavit of three United States of America, USA based professionals, the Federal Government of Nigeria alleged that sometime in 2014, it realised there was a decline in the revenue derived by it from the exportation of crude oil.

This, the government said, necessitated an intelligent based gathering of data, which showed that part of the major reasons for the decline in the revenue from crude oil exploration was due to non-declaration and under-declaration of crude oil shipments made by some major oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria.

Consequently, Nigerian Government said it established a consortium of experts for the intelligence -based tracking of the global movements of the country’s hydrocarbons including crude oil and gas with the main purposes of identifying the companies engaged in practices that led to missing  revenues from crude oil and gas exports sales to different parts of the world.

To reconcile the export record, Nigeria said it compared import records from respective ports of entry at the United States of America in the case of these two companies and others, the Data on shipment of the company, including its Bills of lading, Oil Vessels name used for the shipment, date of arrival at the destination ports, ports of origin, were used to identify the buyers of the undeclared Nigerian crude oil, and the sellers thereof, as well as quantity of crude oil exported from  Nigeria, and the same data for the same shipment imported into United States were compared.

Want to read more? Follow the source.

Source: http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/09/nigeria-files-suits-to-recover-635m-from-total-agip-as-cost-of-undeclared-oil-exports/

Service Year as Commandant Akinbo A. A. Cornerstone of Ikoba Ohka Detach...

My Nigeria Online (MyNOL)

Is it true?

I have started posting and sharing stuff in support of Buhari again, who am i if Okonjo Iweala, a woman that had seen it all could come out to say at an American conference that the SEED OF THIS RECESSION WAS PLANTED DURING THE JONATHAN REGIME DUE TO OUR LACK OF FINANCIAL DISCIPLINE, INABILITY AND LACK OF POLITICAL WILL TO SAVE. People should not blame jonathan alone for this because the profligate Nigerian Governors too are culpable. He attempted to save, but the governors demanded to take all the savings citing constitutional right. Money they took and Stole at the same time. Our case is pathetic.

Do you know that:
Obasanjo's administration earned #17trn from crude oil sales within eight years and left behind 45bn dollars external reserves and 3.348bn dollars external debt.

Yaradua grew the reserves to 64bn dollars within just one year and the administration was able to finance 15 months of imports despite the 2008/2009 world economic meltdown. Hence, Nigeria survived the melt down because of the political will by the administration to save(a great achievement by Yaradua which most Nigerians are not aware of). Despite the tough economic reality at that time, Yaradua left 47.7bn dollars in reserves and an external debt of 3.94bn dollars. Meanwhile, the administration earned only #9trn from crude oil sales within that short period.

Now, Jonathan administration witnessed an oil boom when Brent crude sold for over 100 dollars/barrel, with the regime earning #51trn within a period of 5years. But because of corruption, the administration did not only squander the oil revenue but even depleted the reserves left by Yaradua, leaving just 32bn dollars and a huge external debt of 63bn dollars for Buhari. The same Brent crude sold for as low as 35 dollars/barrel at a point shortly after Buhari took over power and had only managed to climb to about 48 dollars just recently.

These are facts that can be verified. So, it's amazing hearing people criticize Buhari for the hunger in the land. 

According to Fashola, Buhari's administration inherited 206 uncompleted road projects and contract arrears worth #2.1trn from Jonathan; and for about 2 to 3 years the contractors where not paid. This slowed down the economic activities, with most of the companies laying off their staff. This was when the seed of recession was sowed.

It's obvious that Buhari came in to rescue Nigeria, because if Jonathan had continued in power, the nation's economic crisis would have been worse, perhaps even the Federal government wouldn't have been able to pay salaries of civil servants by now.

According to Okonjo Iweala, Nigeria started borrowing money to pay salaries since October, 2014; but today Nigeria now borrow money for investment in capital projects.

Those who blame Buhari for the current hardship do so either out of mischief (hatred) or ignorance. So, we shouldn't  join the bandwagon in criticising him. He may not have done much to save the situation, considering that he is not a perfect human being but he means well for the country and can only succeed with our prayers

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May Almighty God continue to  guide Baba Buhari. 

Why not share this piece with others for the sake of enlightenment and conscious prayers for our nation . copied.

Is it true?

Nigeria needs Nigerian. 26 June 2015

My Nigeria Online (MyNOL)

Applications for the 2016 Youth@IGF programme are now being accepted.

The Internet Society and the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, along with local partners, NIC Mexico and the Government of Mexico, are partnering to send young people from across the globe through the programme.

The top performers in the online phase will have a chance to go to the IGF in Guadalajara, Mexico taking place from December 5 -9, 2016. 

Information and links to apply can be found:

In English:  https://www.internetsociety.org/youth-igf-programme

In French: https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/programme-jeunesseigf

In Spanish: https://www.internetsociety.org/es/programa-para-la-juventudigf

Portuguese applications will be handled by our partner CGI Brazil and can be found here: http://cgi.br/youth-igf

Applications will close on 11 September 2016.

I encourage you to share this information throughout your networks.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact: <leaders@isoc.org>