[AfrICANN-discuss] AfTLD West Africa Francophone ccTLD Workshop 7-12 December 2009, Dakar, Senegal

Eric Akumiah eric at aftld.org
Mon Sep 14 11:21:35 SAST 2009



For immediate release
Monday, September 14, 2009

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 2009. 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.

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.

Press Release also attached in PDF format.


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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Eric Akumiah
AfTLD Administrative Manager,
[T/F] : +233-21767466
[M] : +233-243380612,  +233-209578772
[E]: eric at aftld.org
[W]: http://www.aftld.org
Skype: ericaftldsec

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