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| Prof. Raymond Akwule, DBI President |
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| http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ |
The Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa Media, Mrs.
Nkemdilim Nweke, the organizers of Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable, disclosed this in
Lagos, saying that Prof. Akwule would be supported by industry heavy-weights
during the commemoration of World Internet Protocol version 6 day.
According to her, the IPv6 Roundtable slated to hold at the Welcome
Centre and Hotels, Lagos, would be presided over by telecommunications
professors or international repute.
While urging industry players to take advantage of the event to address
and share preparations at their ends on migration to IPv6 in the country, she
noted that participants are bound to benefit from the wealth of experience of
Prof. Akwule, who currently is the
President of DBI, an international centre for advanced communications studies.
Mrs. Nweke also noted that with over 25 years of teaching, research,
and project planning and implementation experience in the fields of
telecommunications and Information Technology as well as Mass Communications
and Media Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia USA, Prof.
Akwule would enrich the day with his enlightened exposure.
Equally, as a Senior Fellow, International Cyber Center at George Mason
University, she pointed out that Prof. Akwule would gave some insights on the
theme “IPv6 and the
future of Internet in Nigeria.”
She revealed
that Prof. Akwule who authored ‘Global
Telecommunications: The Technology, Administration and Policies’ published
by Butterworth-Heinemann and widely used as text in several major universities
in the United States and beyond among other articles.
Stressing
that he also taught numerous undergraduate,
Masters and Doctorate level courses in several universities in the USA, before
joining DBI, recalling that as a former Director, Center for Telecommunications
Information and Broadcasting, which later become the Center for Media Research
and Telecommunications at the Department of Communication, George Mason
University, Prof Akwule was one of the founders of the MA Telecommunications
programmes at the same university.
Akwule, she noted has been an advisor to many countries in the area of
ICT, telecommunications and Media, even as he spearheaded the design and
implementation of several national ICT networks as well as e-government, e-commerce
and e-education programmes on the continent of Africa.
Just as he served as a consultant to numerous governments,
international organizations and international and national private sector
companies, including the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), International Telecommunications Union (ITU),
World Bank, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to name a few.
The organizers further recalled that the objective of Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable is to stimulate
public discourse and create awareness on the technological cum business
benefits of this rapid advancing technology, encourage integration of IPv6 into
all aspects of networking and telecommunications infrastructure in the country,
commemorate the World IPV6 Day on Wednesday June 6, as well as providing
first-class platform for networking.
Noteworthy, she said, is
that the last batch of the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses were
given out by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) last year, 2011, as
such it became imperative for the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6
(IPv6).
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