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SAMENA Council and Internet Society Collaborate to Help Shape the Future
of the Internet

in advocating for policies that deliver a
bigger, stronger Internet for everyone.”
This new partnership between SAMENA
Council and the Internet Society will help
highlight the need for routing security
and the adoption of Mutually Agreed
Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), an
activity aimed at securing global Internet
routing, with participants ranging from
SAMENA Telecommunications Council Engagement at the Internet Society, stated: Telecom Operators, ISPs, Cloud providers,
has announced its collaboration with “Our partnership with SAMENA Council Internet Exchange Points, Content Delivery
the Internet Society, to help ensure will help us do more for the Internet. By Networks, to Internet Companies. As a
the sustainability of the Internet and promoting security in Internet routing, part of the collaboration, both SAMENA
to foster digital trust-building, as the the role of community networks, and the Council and ISOC will help conduct
world embraces new communications need for quality Internet measurements, technical capacity-building workshops
technologies and new challenges emerge we will be helping to shape not just the and introduce the concept of community
within the digital space. The Internet future of the Internet in the region, but also networks which are communications
Society is a global non-profit promoting the benefits it can offer to all those who infrastructure built, managed and used by
the development and use of an open, use it. Together, we will be able to assist local communities to address connectivity
globally connected, and secure Internet. organizations in adopting technical best gaps in underserved areas within the SA-
practices, and we will be more effective ME-NA region.
Expressing his warm welcome to the
Internet Society on this new collaboration
front within the ICT Industry, Bocar BA,
CEO & Board Member, stated: "The aim for
Universal Digital Access depends greatly
on the protection, sustainability, and Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security
inclusive access to the Internet. We are
surrounded by new challenges and while MANRS provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing
opportunities ahead of us are tremendous, issues, outlining four simple but concrete actions for network operators.
so are the difficulties. It is critical that
trusted bodies within the Industry join Anti-spoofing Filtering
hands and collaborate to address Internet Prevent traffic with spoofed Prevent propagation of incorrect
policy, technology standards, and future source IP addresses. routing information.
development issues. We are delighted to
enter into a collaboration framework with Coordination Global Validation
ISOC."
Facilitate global operational Facilitate validation of routing
communication and coordination information on a global scale.
Sharing the Internet Society’s views, between network operators.
Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Senior Vice manrs.org
President, Strategy, Communications and

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