[kictanet] Press Release: AfTLD’s Initial Registry Operators Course Khartoum Sudan November 24 – 29 2012

[Barrack Otieno]

 The Africa Top Level Domains Organization (AfTLD), the association of
African country code top level domains (ccTLDs) in collaboration with Sudan
Internet Society (SIS), will be hosting an Initial Registry Operators
Course  for Francophone and Anglophone African ccTLDs in November 2012.
The workshop which will be hosted by Sudan Internet Society, the Sudanese
registry, will be held from 24 – 29 November 2012 and will focus on
enhancing the  robustness and efficiency of African registries by improving
management of the technical infrastructure.
The workshop is in line with AfTLD’s key strategic objective of building
capacity of African ccTLDs with an aim of improving and enhancing Africa’s
internet infrastructure. The Khartoum workshop is among a series of   regular
events that AfTLD holds on an annual basis. The event follows a successful
workshop for Francophone ccTLDS held in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso from 9 to
13 January 2012 supported by the Internet Society and Francophonie as well
as the policy and annual general meeting held in Livingstone Zambia in July
2012.
As has been the case with the past events, the Khartoum workshop is
supported by AfNIC, ISOC, Francophonie – AfTLD’s consistent sponsors and
partners. Travel fellowships will be granted to qualifying ccTLDs. For
further information about these and the event in general please contact
AfTLD secretariat at secretariat at aftld.org. or visit the event website
http://www.africatopleveldomains.org/sd2012/

*About AfTLD*
The African Top Level Domains Organization was established in 2002 to act
as a focal point for African Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) managers
in coordinating, formulating, developing and presenting a unified approach
to issues related to the Domain Name System.
The African Top Level Domains Organization also presents a forum for
sharing ideas between the regions Internet community with an aim of
promoting the utilization of national country’s Top Level Domains.
Ends.


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