[AfrICANN-discuss] AFTLD Francophone West Africa ccTLD Workshop

Anne-Rachel Inné annerachel at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 11:15:28 SAST 2009


AfTLD Press Release

AFTLD Francophone West Africa ccTLD Workshop
For Immediate release

The African Top Level Domains Association (AfTLD), as part of its programme
to build the capacity of ccTLD managers in the Africa region announces the
Francophone West Africa ccTLD workshop in Dakar from 7 -12 December 2008.
The workshop will be hosted by the Senegal Network Information Centre
(NIC-SN) and the Senegal telecommunication regulatory authority, Agence de
Regulation des Telecommunication et des Postes (ARTP).

Through the workshop, AfTLD intends to contribute to the process of
developing and enhancing the technical capacity of francophone ccTLDs in the
West Africa sub-region. By organizing this workshop AfTLD will be
introducing language diversity to its capacity building program to
adequately address the capacity building needs of the francophone African
ccTLD community. The workshop will cover the Initial Registry Operation
Course (IROC) developed jointly by ICANN/ISOC/NSRC. The course will target
most specifically newly re-delegated ccTLDs in the region and will be
delivered in French. Subsequent workshops will be organized for the Advanced
Registry Operation Course (AROC) and Security Registry Operation course
(SROC) in French in the near future.

The workshop is supported by ICANN, Internet Society, Network Startup
Resource Centre (NSRC), AusRegistry International and other sponsors.

For further details, including a detailed event programme, please visit the
AfTLD web site (www.aftld.org).
For enquiries, please contact Eric Akumiah, AfTLD Administrative Manager, at
email address
secretary at 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
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