<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Bom dia Prezados,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Em nome do programa do comité do AFPIF (The African Peering & Interconnection Forum) venho por este meio partilhar a seguinte informação:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">The African IXP Association, in partnership with the Internet Society, is proud to announce<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><i class=""><span class="">The Virtual Peering Series - Africa</span></i></a><i class=""><span class="">: A collection of online events</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class=""> </span></span><span class="">that will highlight and analyze key issues and recent developments in Africa's Internet ecosystem. <br class=""><br class="">The Virtual Peering Series has been developed by the AfPIF Program Committee and event organizers with the goal of promoting awareness, fostering collaboration, and developing the region's peering and interconnection ecosystem in order to achieve the vision of sourcing 80% of Africa's traffic locally. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""> </span></p><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/effects-of-covid-19-on-the-african-internet/" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span class="">Join us online on September 1, 2020 at 1300 UTC for the 1<sup class="">st</sup> event</span></a><span class="">, which will bring together the peering community to discuss-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">The Effects of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the African Internet space.</i></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i class=""><span class=""> </span></i></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span class=""><a href="https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z7t72dFQSlirlqP4H6tiUQ" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Register today! </a></span></b></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z7t72dFQSlirlqP4H6tiUQ" class="">https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z7t72dFQSlirlqP4H6tiUQ</a></b></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;" class="">Nota que as series vão percorrer até final do ano sendo que a última sessão virtual será no dia 1 de Dezembro de 2020.</span></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;" class="">Obrigado,</span></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;" class="">Darwin-.</span></b></div></body></html>