<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Calibri,Bold";color:#ffc100">AfTLD’s Policy and Annual
General Meeting Livingstone Zambia July 23 – 27 2012</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">The Africa Top Level Domains
Organization (AfTLD), the association of African country code top level domains (ccTLDs) in
collaboration with the Zambia Information and Communications Technology
Authority (ZICTA), will be hosting its policy and annual General Meeting in
Livingstone (Zambia) for Francophone and Anglophone African ccTLDs in July 2012.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">The Policy meeting which will
be hosted by ZICTA, the Zambian regulator, will be held from 23 – 27 July 2012
and will focus on enhancing the visibility of African ccTLDs through branding
and marketing, examining the likely impact of new gTLDs on African ccTLDS as
well enhancing the robustness and efficiency of African registries by improving
the technical infrastructure.<span style> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">The Policy meeting is in line
with AfTLD’s key strategic objective of building capacity of African ccTLDs
with an aim of improving and enhancing Africa’s internet infrastructure. The
Livingstone Policy and annual general meeting is among a series of<span style> </span>regular events that AfTLD holds on an annual
basis. The event follows a successful workshop for Francophone ccTLDS held in
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso from 9 to 13 January 2012. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">As has been the case with the
past events, the Livingstone workshop is supported</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">by AfNIC, ISOC, LexSynergy and
Africa in onespace – AfTLD’s consistent sponsors and partners. Travel
fellowships will be granted to qualifying ccTLDs. For further information about
these and the event in general please contact AfTLD secretariat at </span><a href="mailto:secretariat@aftld.org"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS">secretariat@aftld.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:#244061">. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">or visit
the AfTLD website <a href="http://www.aftld.org/zm2012/">http://www.aftld.org/zm2012/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"ArialUnicodeMS,Bold";color:black">About AfTLD</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">The African Top Level Domains
Organization was established in 2002 to act as a focal point for African
Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) managers in coordinating, formulating,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">developing and presenting a
unified approach to issues related to the Domain Name System.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:ArialUnicodeMS;color:black">The African Top Level Domains
Organization 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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ends.</p>
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