<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Eric Akumiah" <<a href="mailto:eric@aftld.org">eric@aftld.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 17, 2011 10:33:02 AM GMT+03:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:aftld-discuss@aftld.org">aftld-discuss@aftld.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[AfTLD-Discuss] PRESS RELEASE: AfTLD to Hold 5th Annual African ccTLD Event in Accra, Ghana</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>AfTLD to Hold 5th Annual African ccTLD Event in Accra, Ghana<br><br>15 January 2011 Accra, Ghana. The African Top Level Domains Organization<br>(AfTLD), the association of African country code top level domains<br>(ccTLDs), announces its 5th Annual African ccTLD Event. The event which<br>will be held in Accra, Ghana from 17 to 23 April 2011 will be hosted by<br>the National<br>Information Technology Agency (NITA) of Ghana with the support of the<br>Ministry of Communication and other local sponsors. The event will<br>include a five-day technical training workshop on Secure Registry<br>Operation Course (SROC) , an initiative of ICANN, ISOC and NSRC which will<br>be held in English and French, a policy workshop to review ccTLD<br>activities on the continent and the AfTLD Annual General meeting. The SROC<br>workshop is in line with AfTLD’s theme of “Enhancing Internet Management<br>in Africa” and is part of AfTLD’s ongoing effort to enhance capacity of<br>ccTLD managers in the Africa region to manage their registries efficiently<br>and in a cost effective manner. Previous workshop o Initial Registry<br>Operation Course (IROC) and Advanced Registry Operation Course (AROC) in<br>French and English have been in<br>various cities across Africa for ccTLD manager within the region. The<br>Security Registry Operation Course (SROC) is most crucial in the wake of<br>heightened cyber security attacks to registries and other national<br>infrastructure. The Policy Workshop will access the current situation of<br>ccTLDs in Africa in the light of the Pailles Declaration made during the<br>ccTLD stakeholder meeting in Mauritius in March 2009. AfTLD’s five year<br>strategic plan will be unveiled and discussed by policy makers and other<br>ccTLD stakeholders on the African Continent. Several speakers on ccTLD<br>across the globe will speak at the workshop. At the AfTLD<br>Annual General Meeting, a number of new policies proposed by the board<br>will be discussed and voted on by formal members of AfTLD.<br><br>More details including registration page, detailed event program, hotel<br>and venue information will be available on the AfTLD website shortly at<br><a href="http://www.aftld.org">http://www.aftld.org</a>.<br><br>You can find a pdf copy of this press release at<br><br><a href="http://http">http://http</a>://<a href="http://www.aftld.org/docs/Accra2011_prepress.pdf">www.aftld.org/docs/Accra2011_prepress.pdf</a><br><br>For enquiries on sponsorship and other issues please contact AfTLD General<br>Manager at <a href="mailto:secretariat@aftld.org">secretariat@aftld.org</a>.<br><br>About AfTLD<br>AfTLD was established in 2002 to act as a focal point for African Country<br>Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD)<br>managers in coordinating, formulating, developing and presenting a unified<br>approach to issues related<br>to the Domain Name System. AfTLD also presents a forum for sharing ideas<br>between the regions Internet community with an aim of promoting the<br>utilization of national country’s Top Level Domains.<br><br>About ICANN<br>CANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation<br>with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the<br>Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and<br>develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.<br>(<a href="http://www.icann.org">http://www.icann.org</a>)<br><br>About ISOC<br>The Internet Society (ISOC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to<br>provide leadership in Internet related standards, education and policy. We<br>are dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the<br>Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.<br>(<a href="http://www.isoc.org">http://www.isoc.org</a>)<br><br>About NSRC<br>Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) is a non-profit activity that has<br>worked since the late 1980s to help develop and deploy networking<br>technology in various projects throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin<br>America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent<br>States. 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