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Date: 29 April 2013 13:03<br>Subject: Africa: ICANN To Open Istanbul Hub, Covering Africa<br>To: "News Release - African Press Organization (APO)" <<a href="mailto:no-reply@apo-opa.com">no-reply@apo-opa.com</a>><br>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">ICANN To Open Istanbul Hub, Covering Africa<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><u></u><p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p>
<p><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Infrastructure, growing technology sector, proximity to Africa, Middle-East and Europe make Istanbul ideal location<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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ISTANBUL, Turkey,<u></u> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">April 29, 2013</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">/ <b>-- </b>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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Logo: <a href="http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/icann.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/icann.jpg</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Photo 1: <a href="http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=455" target="_blank">http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=455</a> <i>(ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé) </i><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Photo 2: <a href="http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=456" target="_blank">http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/index.php?level=picture&id=456</a> <i>(ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé with Binali Yıldırım, Turkey’s Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications)</i><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">The announcement marks a significant moment in the evolution of ICANN (</span><a href="http://www.icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">http://www.icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">) as it prepares to spread its operational functions across three global headquarters - Los Angeles (current location), Istanbul and Singapore.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">“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.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">“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.” <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">“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.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Brad White, Director of Global Media Affairs<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Washington, DC, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">About ICANN</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">: 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 (</span><a href="http://www.icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">http://www.icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">) 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: </span><a href="http://www.icann.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">http://www.icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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