{"id":10196,"date":"2021-10-15T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techrafiki.com\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2021-10-15T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T06:15:12","slug":"ugnog-hosts-successful-second-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techrafiki.com\/ugnog-hosts-successful-second-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Network Operators Group (UGNOG) hosts successful second summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
On 29th September 2021, the Uganda Network Operators Group (UGNOG) held its second summit since its official launch in October 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also read: Britam Insurance and MTN mobile money partner to increase access to insurance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n UGNOG creates an environment where Internet community participants such as operators, enthusiasts, the government, and scholars can discuss best industry practices and empower our community to meet the ever-changing demands of a global network in service of building the internet of tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is managed and organized by a group of volunteers with the aim of capacity building and technology development within Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The UGNOG summit intends on brought together the Ugandan internet community participants to educate them on a couple of topics, including; Updates from African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), network security, open access, ISP last-mile service delivery, and threat Intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While there seems to have been a general decline in activities due to the ongoing enforcement of the Covid-19 restrictions, UGNOG is hopeful to engage in more activities in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘As the network operators’ groups (NOGs) grows, we intend to have more activities such as capacity building, workshops, outreach, and more meetings’ said Isabel Odida<\/a>, the Founder of UGNOG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She mentioned that she hopes that the NOG engagements would return to physical ones instead of last year’s, primarily virtual engagements due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sponsors of the event included Raxio Data Centre, Global NOG Alliance, Flexoptix, Work Online Communications, Internet Society, Uganda Internet Exchange Point, Team Cymru, and Roke Telecom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n