Mr. Antoine Joseph Junior Tonye
Nationality: Cameroonian
Country of Residence: Cameroon
Organisation or affiliation: Camtel
Position:TLIR Administrator
Brief Motivation
TONYE Antoine Joseph Junior is the LIR Administrator of Cameroon Telecommunications . Since his appointment to CAMTEL at that position in the year 2000, he has participated with the staff of CAMTEL in bringing a number of significant technical changes within the Organization. Tonye's long experience with AfriNIC,s policies has helped LIRs located in Cameroon to grow into a better governance of the internet by efficient management of IP addresses and routing. His 25 years of experience in Information and Communications Technologies in CAMTEL has also helped him obtain a wide range of skills and capacity which are of benefit to CAMTEL and can be of benefit to AfriNiC member community as a whole. Passionate about Internet technology and its impact on human development, he has actively contributed to technical capacity building to the setup of some LIR in Cameroon. He played a key role on raising awareness among local stakeholders (LIR, ISP, Public administration, universities, NGOs) for an urgent deployment of IPv6, ROA/RPKI, with a view to increasing internet security in Africa and worldwide. He intends to better provide support to the CEO and staff of the organization in fulfilling the mandate of the NEW AFRINIC and objectives of the organization. His earnest wish that he be allowed to serve the community in capacity as Board member from the Central African region (Seat 4). He is an IT Engineer - information systems analyst and designer, he lives in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Professional Background
Meetings participation
-AfriNIC 2001 - Accra
-RIPENCC, 2001 - Zurich,
-RIPE NCC 43-2002 - Rhodes, Greece.
-RIPE NCC 43 2002 Athens, Greece.
-AfriNIC-4-2006 Nairobi - Kenya.
-Cisco Practical Workshop - Setting Up an Internet Exchange Point in Cameroon - March 2008- Yaoundé
-AIS 2014 Djibouti. TONYE was a candidate for election to the BoD for seat 4 ( Central Africa)
-NgPIF - 2022, Lagos
-AFPIF 2023 Accra-Ghana
-AIS-2023-Johannesburg
Positions in CAMTEL
-2023: Operations Department
-2022: Head of Supervision and QoS- Internet Transit Center
-2021: Support Officer -Technical Audit and Projects Unit
-2019: Head of Sales and Marketing Section-Web Hosting and Messaging Center - Information System Department
-2016: Head of Customer Support Section - Information System Department
-2013: Technical Sales
-2012: Controller at Special Control Department
-2005: Assistant Research Engineer at the IT, Internet and Specialized Networks Department - Internet and Networks Unit.
-2005: Head of the IP Network Management Section
-2000 Head of IP Address Management and Routing - LIR Services.
Projects Participation
-Wi-Fi Network - LAN interconnection
-Videoconferencing system
- Network Geolocation Project
- Street Sales Project