Prof nii quaynor biography books pdf

If not for the aspirations, sacrifices, and hard work, Ghana would not have been among the African nations with complete internet connectivity in August While August is officially recognized as the month and year when Ghana began to have full internet access, the groundwork for this was established in through laborious work.

The four bright, forward-thinking men who introduced the internet to Ghana 29 years ago are named by Knowbody today. Nii Quaynor had a unique and strong zeal for applying technology to solve problems in He graduated from Dartmouth College with a B. He continued his studies at S. In the United States, he worked extensively from to In December , he received the renowned Jonathan Postel Service Award from the Internet Society for his efforts that pioneered and promoted the Internet in Africa, adding to his already impressive acclaim.

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Because of his innovative contribution to the growth of the Internet in Africa, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in In , he pushed for Ghana to register its first domain name. COM was the domain name. All that a domain is is the easily recognizable name for a website. The website that you are currently viewing is called Ghana Education.

They searched for ways to go online and serve the internet after securing the domain. It was necessary to purchase two workstations from a Telebit Netblazer equipped with a rack of American robotics modems to guarantee the availability of internet services. Each of the two discs had a memory capacity of 48 megabytes, for a total capacity of just 6 GB.