Alan Barrett

Alan Barrett holds an M.Sc.Eng. from the University of Natal, Durban (now UKZN).  In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was a lectureer in the Department of Electronic Engineering at UND.  He was a co-founder of the first commercial ISP in South Africa, TICSA, which later became UUNET Internet Africa (now Verizon).  He has been involved with several Internet-related organisations, including ISOC, AfNOG, and AfriNIC.