[kictanet] Fwd: Africa: ICANN To Open Istanbul Hub, Covering Africa

Andrea Bohnstedt andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com
Mon Apr 29 13:23:56 EAT 2013


Apologies if that's been sent round already.

Have a great week,
Andrea

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Date: 29 April 2013 13:03
Subject: Africa: ICANN To Open Istanbul Hub, Covering Africa
To: "News Release - African Press Organization (APO)" <no-reply at apo-opa.com>


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*PRESS RELEASE*

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*ICANN To Open Istanbul Hub, Covering Africa*
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*Infrastructure, growing technology sector, proximity to Africa,
Middle-East and Europe make Istanbul ideal location*

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**** **** **** **** **** ISTANBUL, Turkey,** April 29, 2013/ *-- *Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President and Chief
Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé today announced the organization will open
its first hub office in Istanbul, Turkey. ****

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Logo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/icann.jpg
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Photo 1: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=455 *(ICANN
President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé) *****

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Photo 2: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=456 *(ICANN
President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé with Binali Yıldırım,
Turkey’s Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications)*****

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The announcement marks a significant moment in the evolution of ICANN (
http://www.icann.org) as it prepares to spread its operational functions
across three global headquarters - Los Angeles (current location),
Istanbul and Singapore.****

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“ICANN is becoming increasingly international in terms of our outlook,
policies and the makeup of our staff.  Now our global hub strategy will
take our internationalism to an improved operational level,” said Chehadé.
“These hub offices will become part of the core fabric of ICANN.”****

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The Istanbul hub office will be led by David Olive, ICANN’s Vice President
for Policy Development. A number of current ICANN staff will relocate to
Istanbul over the coming months and local staff also will be hired. ****

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“We looked closely at a number of possible global locations,” said Fadi
Chehadé. “We chose Istanbul because of the quality of its infrastructure,
growing ICT sector, business-friendly environment and its close cultural
and geographic proximity to Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.” ****

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“ICANN provides efficient and considered management of the Internet’s
Domain Name System, and today marks the latest step in the organization’s
journey of extending its global influence,” said Binali Yıldırım, Turkey’s
Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications. “The ICANN
European HUB is being established in Istanbul to act as an epicenter that
will help shape Internet policy to deliver a more connected community
across Europe, Middle East and Africa.”****

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ICANN currently is overseeing the implementation of more than 1,400 new
generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), representing one of the biggest changes
to the Internet since its inception. The first wave of these domains will
come online in the coming months. As a result of this massive expansion of
the Domain Name System (DNS), ICANN too is expanding as it continues its
mission to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet.****

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*Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).*

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*MEDIA CONTACTS:*

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Brad White, Director of Global Media Affairs****

Washington, DC, USA****

Tel. +1 202 570 7118 ****

E: brad.white at icann.org****

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Andrew Robertson, Edelman Public Relations ****

London, U.K.****

Tel. + 44 7811 341 945 ****

E: andrew.Robertson at edelman.com ****

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*About ICANN*: ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified
global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type
an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be
unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN (
http://www.icann.org) coordinates these unique identifiers across the
world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet.
ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation
with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet
secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops
policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content
on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the
Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming
system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of
the Internet. For more information please visit: http://www.icann.org. ****

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*SOURCE *

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Andrea Bohnstedt <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/andreabohnstedt>
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