AfTLD to Hold 5th Annual African ccTLD Event in Accra, Ghana
15 January 2011 Accra, Ghana. The African Top Level Domains Organization
(AfTLD), the association of African country code top level domains
(ccTLDs), announces its 5th Annual African ccTLD Event. The event which
will be held in Accra, Ghana from 17 to 23 April 2011 will be hosted by
the National
Information Technology Agency (NITA) of Ghana with the support of the
Ministry of Communication and other local sponsors. The event will
include a five-day technical training workshop on Secure Registry
Operation Course (SROC) , an initiative of ICANN, ISOC and NSRC which will
be held in English and French, a policy workshop to review ccTLD
activities on the continent and the AfTLD Annual General meeting. The SROC
workshop is in line with AfTLD’s theme of “Enhancing Internet Management
in Africa” and is part of AfTLD’s ongoing effort to enhance capacity of
ccTLD managers in the Africa region to manage their registries efficiently
and in a cost effective manner. Previous workshop o Initial Registry
Operation Course (IROC) and Advanced Registry Operation Course (AROC) in
French and English have been in
various cities across Africa for ccTLD manager within the region. The
Security Registry Operation Course (SROC) is most crucial in the wake of
heightened cyber security attacks to registries and other national
infrastructure. The Policy Workshop will access the current situation of
ccTLDs in Africa in the light of the Pailles Declaration made during the
ccTLD stakeholder meeting in Mauritius in March 2009. AfTLD’s five year
strategic plan will be unveiled and discussed by policy makers and other
ccTLD stakeholders on the African Continent. Several speakers on ccTLD
across the globe will speak at the workshop. At the AfTLD
Annual General Meeting, a number of new policies proposed by the board
will be discussed and voted on by formal members of AfTLD.
More details including registration page, detailed event program, hotel
and venue information will be available on the AfTLD website shortly at
http://www.aftld.org.
You can find a pdf copy of this press release at
http://http://
www.aftld.org/docs/Accra2011_prepress.pdfFor enquiries on sponsorship and other issues please contact AfTLD General
Manager at
secretariat@aftld.org.
About AfTLD
AfTLD 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. AfTLD 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.
About ICANN
CANN 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.
(
http://www.icann.org)
About ISOC
The Internet Society (ISOC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to
provide leadership in Internet related standards, education and policy. We
are dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the
Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.
(
http://www.isoc.org)
About NSRC
Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) is a non-profit activity that has
worked since the late 1980s to help develop and deploy networking
technology in various projects throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin
America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent
States. (
http://www.nsrc.org)
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