[ccnso-nominations] Acceptance of Nomination

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1-candidate_region:
AF

2a-nominee_name:
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda

2b-nominee_email:
paulos@xxxxxxxxxxx

2c-nominee_snailmail:
Malawi SDNP, 
P/B 303, Chichiri, 
Blantyre 3, 
Malawi

3-nominee_cctld:
.mw

3-nominee_region:
AF

4-I accept nomination for election to the ccNSO Council:
yes

5-curriculum_vitae:
Paulos Nyirenda is the national coordinator of Malawi SDNP and manager of the 
Malawi .mw ccTLD. He has been the catalyst for bringing the .mw ccTLD home to 
Malawi from foreign management and has managed its registry construction and 
operationalisation within Malawi. He is a member of the ccNSO launching group.

He started the first public e-mail services in Malawi and has since grown 
Malawi SDNP from a research feasibility study to a fully operational and 
sustainable Internet service provider. As a faculty member in the University of 
Malawi, he rose to be the head of the physics department before moving to head 
Malawi SDNP.

Paulos Nyirenda holds a BSc (1979) from University of Malawi, an MS (1982) from 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a PhD (1991) in electrical engineering 
from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Dr Nyirenda has many 
refereed publications. 

Dr Nyirenda has been involved in most of the policy reforms in Malawi in the 
ICT sector over the last ten years including those on the national ICT policy, 
the national telecommunications policy, the national telecommunications and 
broadcasting acts.


6-nominee_statement:
African ccTLDs face some of the most difficult problems in providing services 
to their Internet communities under their own direction, management and local 
policy that satisfy their local national laws. They still face significant 
historically based and colonial interference and are often side lined. They 
still do not have a viable regional organization to represent them on national, 
regional and global forums.

The ccNSO has the potential to give African ccTLDs a chance for their voices to 
be heard. I have noted that this has not been the case in ccTLD forums for many 
of them so far. As a Council member, I will work to enable African ccTLDs to 
strengthen their collaboration and activities in the regional and global arena 
so that their particular situations are properly highlighted, considered and 
incorporated in global policies affecting ccTLDs, so that they can better 
server their currently badly underserved communities.