Get ready to vote!
AFRINIC: get ready to vote for a better future
Elections for AFRINIC’s new board will take place shortly!
For years, AFRINIC has been controlled by a small group of Directors and senior staff who enjoyed huge salaries, expense accounts and travelled the world using your money. They got so addicted to their lifestyle that they have spent the last couple of years spending your money trying to argue in court that they were entitled to keep their roles and their lavish benefits and to stop elections from taking place to replace them.
The independent and impartial Supreme Court of Mauritius rejected AFRNIC’s attempts to stop you having your say in new elections. The Court has ruled that there are no Directors, no CEO, and no member of staff has an authority to take decisions. NRS welcomes that an independent Judge has ruled, once again, that AFRINIC elections must take place soon to elect new Directors.
If you want to see a better future for AFRINIC you need to get ready to vote.
By voting for change, you can send a signal to the old Directors and old senior staff that their time is over. Their lavish lifestyle, expense accounts, and days of world travel are over. Instead, by coming together and voting for a bottom-up, member led organization that works in the interests of all members not just the privileged few we can build a new and better AFRINIC.
You can no longer trust that the old AFRINIC team will provide free and fair information in relation to the election. After all, they have spent years and millions of dollars trying to stop you having your say.
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If you want a new AFRINIC, you need to vote for it!
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NRS Endorsed Candidates for AFRINIC BOARD
Tarek Haddad
Tarek has experienced different work fields since he was 12 years old; selling, marketing, administration, event planning and coordinating, creative writing and volunteering in human development institutions across various countries; Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and Malaysia as well as Hong Kong and Dubai. Tarek is a bilingual professional with strong interpersonal cross-cultural communication skills. Since his work in the digital marketing sector for quite some years, he has grown to understand the rule internet plays in connecting different people from all over the world regardless of their background.
Samuel Uzoechi
Samuel is a multi-talented professional with 11 over years’ experience in key industrial sectors ranging from Banking Industry, IT and Telecom Companies and Non-Governmental IT Governance Organization where he managed several reputable Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Samuel is a true believer in the "internet is for everyone". and as an advocate for that, he will ensure that resource (IP) applications are not delayed, and requests are attended to swiftly for the benefit of resource companies and the internet community at large.
Paul Norman
Paul Norman is an expertise in sales and Management of commercial teams with Strong management and leadership skills. Paul believes that the Internet continues to prove how indispensable this communication tool is; especially after passing the milestone of 2 billion users. His vision is to make the internet and its tools accessible to everyone, by offering training adapted to regional needs. Paul will use his great ability to listen, his team spirit, and his critical way of thinking to work with AFRINIC community into transforming AFRINIC to a better RIR.
Paul Wollner
Paul Wollner is a Chief Technical Officer with more than 20 years’ experience, responsible for building a local SME Internet Service Provider’s infrastructure to offer BroadBand ISP’s and maintaining the lead on the market in Internet Services, Campus Products and Broadband offerings for the past 14 years. Putting the community as his priority, Paul believes in diversity, inclusiveness and openness. He appreciates different contributors and members to take part in the policy making process. Paul makes a distinguished nominee, as he is willing to work with the members hand in hand, to create an inclusive atmosphere where all community members have full awareness of what's happening.
Angela Kuria
Angela Kuria is a Charismatic and persuasive customer service professional with over 8 years' experience providing top quality service, to drive cost efficiencies and position organization for growth. Angela has Exceptional ability to build productive relationships, resolve complex issues, as well as encouraging team collaboration to achieve excellent results in her field. Angela aspires to make a better world tomorrow for our today children by bringing inspiration and innovation in their everyday undertaking, she also wants to work on inspiring the world through technological advances in products and designs by use of networking amongst RIR members all over the world.
Erick Mulama
Erick is a skilled professional in Account Management and B2B Sales. Being exposed across different channels and different levels of customer sophistication, Eric has gathered remarkable market intelligence and distinguished skills to come up with strategies that help explore opportunities for acquiring new businesses. As a young and energetic individual who has worked in the Telecom industry for more than six years, I wish to inspire more young people into number policy making and future internet governance. What better way than to start right from inside? However, what makes Erick a perfect match to AFRINIC board of directors is his huge passion for matters with Internet Governance.
Francis Nyaga
As an IT expert with over 8 years diverse experience in various fields, offering distinguished career in strategic planning, training and development, global operations and leadership for organizations. Mr. Francis Nyaga believes that every person has the right to participate fully in the global internet, promising to bring his unique visioning ability to AFRINIC Board, Francis's expertise in various fields will help AFRINIC expand its regional outreach, as well as he will take a key role in help facilitating growth within the organization.