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[Rebecca Wanjiku]

TANZANIA ENJOYS FRUITS OF CO-OPERATION
  By Rebecca Wanjiku,
   
  When Peter Ulanga was invited to visit Brazil, last year, he knew that something was going to change in the management of  dot Tz country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD).
   
  Ulanga, and a colleague, Peter Shilla, benefited from training offered by the Brazilian government on management of domain name registries using open source software.
   
  Within two years of the training, Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority is ready to launch the dot Tz ccTLD registry. The domain has been administered by the University of Dar es Salaam and individuals.
   
  `The training worked well, we have bought necessary equipment and we are ready to launch Tanzania Network Information Centre, TzNIC,` said Ulanga.
   
  Ulanga says that the training was useful and the tests were successful. He added that it will now be easier to register domains and if there are any problems, then there is a central point to channel complaints. 
  Tanzania benefitted from the south/south solidarity spearheaded by the South American power house. Kenya was the first to train on how to use the software, Tanzania soon followed suit, while Mozambique and Sudan are lining up for the services. 
  The gesture by the Brazilian government was calculated to ensure that Africa can access the less costly open source software solutions and transform African registries from manual to automation.
  At the on-going Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) conference, in Sao Paulo, renowned Brazilian Professor Hartmut Glaser could not hide his joy while confirming that he had been invited by the Tanzanian government to witness the fruits of his government´s generosity.
  Apart from the training, Brazil offered technical assistance to the recipient countries in case of any problems with the software or even any technical hitches in their operations. 
  The drive to foster south/south cooperation started in 2002 when Brazil sent engineers to Togo to train local counterparts from more than 20 countries gathered in Lome.
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Judy kimiti <jkimiti01 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:                              Dear Member,
   
  Please find attached the  minutes of the Planning Meeting that took place on 9th November 2006 and the KDN Presentation by Kai Wulff .
   
  Thank You.
   
  Yours Faithfully
  Judy Kimiti
  KICTANet



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