AfriNIC

AfriNIC is a non-governmental and not-for-profit membership based organisation. Its main role is to serve Africa region as Regional Internet Registry, alike the four other continents which have their own RIR.

AfriNIC’s mission is:

To provide professional and efficient distribution of Internet number resources to the African Internet community, to support Internet technology usage and development across the continent and strengthen self Internet governance in Africa by encouraging a participative policy development.

The AfriNIC organizational structure is set to encourage a bottom-up self governance management model where policies and other organisational functions are determined by the community in general and members who elect representatives that seat on the Board of Directors. The discussions are conducted via both public meetings and e-mail discussion lists. There are no requirements or pre-requisites for any person or entity to participate. AfriNIC has a General assembly which meets once a year whereas Public Policy Meetings are organised twice a year (one back-to-back with the General Assembly).

Affiliations Here

• Regional Internet Registries