News & Updates
- 2023 and beyond: where GNA is going
After a productive Board meeting, we wanted to introduce you to some of our latest initiatives.
Taskforce: Keep Ukraine Connected
This project will continue while the war in Ukraine rages on. We have recruited Daniel Houben as the Taskforce Lead. Daniel has been amazing in supporting the project for some time, organising equipment and transports with great enthusiasm and skill. His contribution to the project cannot be overstated! If you have equipment donations or would like to talk to use about KUC, email: ukraine@nogalliance.org.
Taskforce: Keep Sudan Connected
We want to help our Network Engineer friends during this difficult time of civil war in Sudan to rebuild the destroyed communication infrastructure. We want to use our experience from Keep Ukraine Connected to help our local colleagues. For this purpose we are looking for colleagues from Sudan who can help us build a supply chain. We are also looking for a project lead from Sudan. If you are on the ground and want to help us, please email us: ksc@nogalliance.org.Taskforce: Disaster Recovery
Natural disasters are on the rise and this is a reason for us to react. With Jan as Taskforce Lead, we want to set up a taskforce in which we look at and analyze natural disasters. Based on this experience, we want to develop a concept with local colleagues from all regions of the world on how to get affected and destroyed infrastructures back online as quickly as possible. If you are interested in supporting us, please send us an email: dc@nogalliance.org.
How the Global NOG Alliance works: an update
During our latest board meeting, we made some decisions that we’d like to communicate with you all.
What we do
It is our continued mission to work with NOGs and help new NOGs get off the ground. These are two of our initiatives that focus on NOGs:
NOG Support
We have formed a specialized team, which is exclusively responsible for supporting NOGs the world over. This team is who you should contact if you plan to organize a Network Operator Group Meeting, or if you need support with starting up or growing your NOG Meetings.
We offer many service for free, along with the benefit of our long experience. Tools already available include: website hosting with membership logins, registration for events, calls for presentations including rating and judging for the programme committee, a Zoom License, and Jitsi Conference Calling tools.
We are also happy to facilitate any introductions to sponsors.
Furthermore, we are working on a set of guidelines called “How to establish a NOG”. Board member Florence is the first point of contact for NOG support. Email us: nog-support@nogalliance.org.
New project: Sustainability
An increasingly important topic in IT, we want to be the link between environmental professionals and the network engineer and translate the requirements into the language of our NOG community so we’re all on the same page.
What does “Sustainability” mean to us as Network Engineers and how can we be Sustainable?
First we will create an archive of information and share information. The focus is to make everything mutually understandable.
We will build a network of sustainability professionals and create guidance that is understandable for network engineers.
The second part of our plan is to organize workshops during NOG meetings where we will share the knowledge of these sustainability professionals and above all work to make sure that everyone understands that we meed to do more to protect the environment, greenwashing is not the right thing to teach our next generation. If you are interested in becoming active here, please send email us: sustainability@nogalliance.org.
Continue reading → - The splicer has arrived — but we need more
Keep Ukraine Connected
<h3>News & Updates</h3> <h1>The splicer has arrived — but we need more.</h1>Our splicer, part funded by the campaign and a generous donor, has reached its intended location in Kharkiv, Ukraine and was immediately put to use. Here you can see our founding team member and driver Rene loading it into his truck in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
René loads a much-needed Fiber Splicing Tool, half of which was paid for by a generous donor and then topped up with donations to the campaign, into the nearly full truck in Ljubljana.René then unloaded his truck just over the Polish border, and our distributors then took the Splicer on to it’s final destination in the Kharkiv region. It travelled nearly 2,000km to get to where it needed to be.
The approximate route taken by the splicerThe splicer is now being put to use, repairing badly damaged fiber in the region. Here we have some photos from the recipient — they don’t have a lot of context, because understandably the network operators are concentrating on doing the job and getting out of there as quickly as possible.
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However, one splicer is just a drop in the ocean of what is needed to keep Ukraine connected - our fellow operators need many more. If you have any leads on where we can find more, can donate or fund a splicer yourself, or arrange match funding with your employer or among friends, we'd absolutely love to <a href="mailto:ukraine@nogalliance.org">hear from you</a>.</p> <h3 style="text-align: center; margin:0;">How to donate</h3> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BEWYWMSBEFJFU" role="button"> PayPal </a> <a href="https://bunq.me/keepukraineconnected" role="button"> Bank </a> <a href="mailto:ukraine@nogalliance.org" role="button"> Email us </a> <h3 style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px!important;">Share on social media</h3> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?button_hashtag=KeepUkraineConnected&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"> </a> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?button_hashtag=KeepUkraineConnected&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Share on Twitter</a></p> <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/nogalliance/shared_invite/enQtOTM5MTA1ODY4MjE0LTA2NTU2YmFiMDc4MGVmMmYyMWE4NjkzNjFiMDU5YmEwMDI3ODM5MGRjOGRlNWU3Mjg1M2M0MTU5YjEzZDk0ZWU"> </a> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/k-u-c/">Tag us on LinkedIn</a></p> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nogalliance/"> </a> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/">Post on Facebook</a> - The first delivery has been made!
Keep Ukraine Connected
<h3>News & Updates</h3> The first delivery has been made!Yesterday, 13 April 2022, our intrepid leader René Fichtmüller crossed the boarder between Poland and Ukraine to deliver what we hope will be the first of many shipments to beleaguered Network Operators in the Ukraine.
René loads a much-needed Fiber Splicing Tool, half of which was paid for by a generous donor and then topped up with donations to the campaign, into the nearly full truck in Ljubljana.
After a round trip through Europe with his 7.5 tonne truck, stopping off in Prague in the Czech Republic, Ljubljana in Slovenia and Krakow in Poland to collect yet more generously donated goods, René successfully navigated the paperwork jungle at the Polish Customs, and then achieved a somewhat smoother transition to the Ukrainian side thanks to the hard work of our colleagues and partners in Ukraine, who secured advanced permissions from the Ministry of Digital Transformation for our load.
Unloading our 15 pallets of networking equipment onto the waiting DEPs truck for distribution
On the Ukrainian side of the boarder, René was met by delegations from the Ukrainian Internet Association (UKA), the Association of Rights Holders and Content Providers (APPK), and DEPs, who are helping us distribute the networking gear to where it’s needed in Ukraine. Pausing just briefly for a photo, he then returned across the boarder to seek a swift return to his native Germany.
René (third from left) meets with some of the people in Ukraine who are doing everything they can to keep the internet working.
Continue reading →
The next part of the plan is to develop a sustainable network capable of storing, testing, labelling and distributing the equipment that is still pouring in from our very generous donors. This will be absolutely crucial for helping network operators in the Ukraine, now and in the future.
If you would like to help, please take a look at our list of requested equipment. All of it has been personally logged by Ukrainian Network Operators as being of greatest need. We are especially looking for Fiber Splicing Tools, as the damage to the Fiber network is already extensive. If you can also help with distribution, logistics or any other aspect of what we’re doing here, we would love to hear from you. Contact us at ukraine@nogalliance.org with offers of help, feedback or request for interviews.