The forum will be preceded by the West Africa School on Internet Governance workshop from July 22 to 24, 2019 and the Youth IGF activities. Internet Society is happy being a partner and Sponsor of this great Multistakeholder event..

For more about the Theme, Agenda, and Registration details please click this link:

For those wishing to participate remotely, registration link is: http://bit.ly/2Gf64AK

We are pleased to announce that the IROC 2018 will be held in the Gambia early this year with regional DNS experts to share experiences and Network.

The Initial Registry Operation Course – (IROC) is a 5 days training on DNS Infrastructure and ccTLD Registry Operations that is coordinated in Africa and other Regions to provide support and technical capacity with Policy/Regulation on: DNS Infrastructure, DNS Security, Registry Operations, ccTLDs, Registrars and ISPs around the world involved in DNS to better manage and maintain reliable and secure Domain Name Systems and Registry services.

This edition of the training will be hosted in The Gambia with the Support of the Africa Top Level Domains Organisation (AFTLD), Senegal Network Information Center NIC Senegal (.sn Registry), and The Internet Society (ISOC).

In addition to the Local and Regional Internet Stakeholders officially attending, we wish to invite and give opportunity to few others. We therefore welcome applications to participate in the workshop. if interested to be considered for the Training please click here and apply

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15th January 2019.
EVENT DATE: 4th to 8th February 2019
VENUE: Paradise Suit Hotel

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

• Regulators
• Web Developers
• Applications Developers
• Web Masters
• Network Engineers
• System Engineers/Admins
• Registrars and
• ISP Technicians

LOCAL HOSTS

1. Internet Society (ISOC) Gambia Chapter
2. Information Technology Association of The Gambia (ITAG)
3. Ministry of Information, Communication and Infrastructure (MOICI)
4. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA)
5. Serekunda Internet Exchange Point (SIXP)

We would like to invite you to vote for ISOC Gambia Chapter Chapterthon project!

Our Project Title: Using Internet of Things(IoT) to improve patient care

“The Chapterthon is a global Internet Society (ISOC) Chapters marathon. The participating Chapters around the world had the same time (45 days) and funding (2000 USD) available to implement a project on the same global topic.”
This year’s focus was on “The Internet of Things (IoT) – The future is ours to shape”.

“43 Chapters from around the world have developed and implemented their projects, ranging from IoT awareness, education and advocacy programs to developing smart IoT solutions.”

Projects are now completed and you are invited to select the project you like most! 
The voting phase is on from 8 to 22 November 2018.

To vote:
1. Watch the videos of all competing projects here.. https://www.internetsociety.org/…/chapterthon/2018/projects/

2. Link to Gambia Chapter video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_FfUH6QP4s&feature=youtu.be

3. Log into the Internet Society’s member portal Or signup If you are not yet a member https://portal.isoc.org/partner/login…

4. Then Choose The Gambia Chapter project (Note: you can only vote once).

The winner will be announced during the Internet Society’s InterCommunity 2018 event on 4 December. 
Best of luck Gambia Chapter

We got the chance to explain how vital sign test can be conducted using our four main sensors (SPO2 Pulse ,Temperature , Body Scale and Body pressure) connected device.
The aim of the project is to make vital sign test easily conducted , recorded and stored into the database.
To make the work of nurses easier and fast.

We also conducted some sample patient live test and it’s data was represented in our eHealth Management System Application.

Dr Jagne was greatly inspired by this project and congratulate the team for an incredible work. They have been wishing to have such technologies at hand as it’s makes their work easier to have patient data directly automated.

The Chapter Project Team looks forward expanding this project with the clinic to integrate it with their Systems.

The way forward is to installed the ehealth IoT solution at Afrimed. As a pilot & research project plans are to conduct a survey in fews months time to see ways it has better improved patient care and how its working for the nurses in the clinic.

The AGCCI 2018 -2022 is Africa wide initiative organized by the UN Women, International Telecommunication Union ITU, in collaboration with the African Union Commission AUC, sponsored by the Denish Government

Internet Society Gambia Chapter with support of the PURA and the Gambian Embassy officials in Addis Ababa were able to successfully nominate and support these two brilliant science students to take part in this two weeks long coding camp where over 80 girls across Africa gathered to connect and learn to be future Digital Innovators and Policy Makers.

ISOC Gambia Chapter would like to thank the parents of the students, HE Ambassador Sulayman Alieu Jack (Gambia Ambassador to Ethiopia) and entire team, Dr Dawit Bekele (Director ISOC Africa Regional Bureau), Mrs. Jamilatou Saidy Faye of PURA for the tremendous support in helping our Gambia Participants succeed. Congratulations to Sera and Isatou. We look forward to further engagement.

For more information about the AGCCI and our participants, please follow this space for our upcoming blog.

The Internet Governance Forum serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues related to the Internet. The Forum is being organized to represent all key stakeholders in the Gambia through a National Steering Committee coordinated by the Ministry of Information and Communication Infrastructure (MOICI).

The Forum was initiated in late 2009, after the start of the West African Internet Governance forum. Since 2010 the Gambia has hosted three National Internet Governance forums, the last being in 2012. Due to the restrictive nature of the former regime, the National IGF was halted after its 3rd edition. The reasons were lack of open access to internet resources and an enabling environment where freedom of expression was respected.

Since the coming into office of the new government in January 2017, the Gambia re-joined the community of democratic nations where freedom of expression and civil liberties are fully respected. We therefore welcome everyone to join us to discuss key Internet policy issues that affect us in The New Gambia.

Agenda: http://bit.ly/2MJx105
Twitter: #gmigf2018 http://bit.ly/gmigf2018

TOPICS Covered were:
The Internet Governance Ecosystem
ICANN Ecosystem
Atlarge within ICANN
What it means to be an ALS and how to get involved in Policy development activities at ICANN.

We thank our wonderful speakers:
Mrs Beran Dondeh Gillen who is also a member of GamChix Advisory board and Mr Poncelet lleleji.

We are delighted to report that Dr. Dawit arrived in Gambia on Sunday 17th September, and has been here with us all day Monday 18th September 2017.

This is the first time, a senior Internet Society staff visited the Gambia purposely to meet ISOC Gambia chapter officers and some members. The aim of the visit was to discuss our past and future plans for more engagement and future Internet development. It was also an opportunity to raise the profile of ISOC Gambia Chapter.

During his short visit, Dr. Dawit and the ISOC Gambia chapter executives took the opportunity to meet the Minister at the Ministry of Information and Communication Infrastructure (MOICI).

The team also visited and met the Management of the Gambia’s Public Utilities and Regulatory Agency (PURA) and the Chairperson of the Serrekunda Internet Exchange Point SIXP, Mrs Isatou Jah.

Among the things discussed were, the way forward in fostering partnership with local stakeholders in supporting Internet Development, Security and capacity.

The official visit was preceded by a visit to the ISOC Gambia office where the team met the Director General of The Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (TANGO), the ISOC Gambia office, library and the TANGO hall.

The team ended the tour with a lunch and discussion at Ocean Bay Hotel and a short visit to Kachically crocodile pool.

Internet Society Gambia Chapter is pleased to have nominated Ms Juma Baldeh who will join the 24 other awardees from 19 different countries on the Five continents to celebrate The Internet Society.

Congratulations to these young passionate minds. 

The Internet is for everyone, everywhere. Lets#KeepitOn and #ShapeTomorrow, #19September#ISOCGM