The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference held by the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG). It is where the African Internet community—drawn from academia, public and private sectors, technical organizations, governmental institutions, and civil society—interacts on Internet issues and Internet development. The Summit consists of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather, and other forums for sharing ICT knowledge within the African region.
Check the agenda and join us to learn more about connectivity efforts, latest policy developments, peering, and more.
ISOC Day: Friday, 26 June
Almasi, Emara Ole Sereni Hotel
8:30 – 8:45
Session 1: Opening session
- Opening speech: Dawit Bekele (ISOC)
- Welcoming remarks: Alphonce Odhiambo, Chair, ISOC Kenya Chapter
8:45 – 9:30
Session 2: Resilient Internet for everyone – Amreesh Phokeer (ISOC), Kevin Chege (ISOC)
- This session introduces the Internet Resilience Index (IRI) and highlights Kenya’s relatively strong resilience in East Africa, while identifying remaining gaps in infrastructure diversity and local ecosystem development. We will also present the Open Fiber Data Standard (OFDS) as a framework to map fiber infrastructure, enhance transparency, and enable better investment and planning for resilient Internet systems
9:30 – 9:45
Session 3: Kenya CN Community Summit – Hawi Rapudo, (ISOC Kenya Chapter)
- This session will present the Kenyan community network summit 2026 that highlighted collective action towards digital divide, transformation, safety, governance, experiences, challenges, best practices and declaration of solidarity towards the Internet for Everyone
9:45 – 10:15
Session 4: Making the Internet experience safe – Purity Kemuma (ISOC Kenya Chapter)
- The session will cover Online Trust and Safety resources available from ISOC, as well as the ISOC Kenya Chapter’s current and past engagements to improve awareness of Online Trust and Safety locally.
10:15-10:45
Session 5: Interconnecting Africa – Ghislain Nkeramugeba (ISOC)
- This session will delve into the current state of peering and interconnection in Africa, exploring the prevailing trends and the challenges the continent faces in improving and expanding local content access. (Ghislain Nkeramugaba, Director – IXP Development, ISOC)
10:45 – 11:15
Networking Break and photo program
11:15 – 11:45
Session 6: Connecting the unconnected – Jean Baptiste Millogo (ISOC)
- This session will present our general narrative on CCC with our three main dimensions for policy improvement: financing, licensing, and spectrum allocation. We present our current work in the way forward for post 2026
11:45 – 12:30
Session 7: Global Policy Processes – Dawit Bekele (ISOC), Yaovi Atohun (ICANN), Amin Dayekh (Megamore Broadband Wireless)
- This session will discuss major global policy processes focusing on the Netmundial+10, Global Digital Compact (GDC) and WSIS+20, which completed in 2024/2025, and the ITU Plenipotentiary 2026 meeting, which will take place in 2026.
12:30 – 12:45
Session 7: Closing session
- Closing Remarks: Dawit Bekele (ISOC)