<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>The 9th Africa Domain Name System Forum will start this morning at 9 UTC. The Minister for Digital Economy , Postal Services and Digital Transformation in the Republic of Burkina Faso will grace the opening session whose details are below:</div><div><br></div><div>
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</span>Moderator: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Barrack Otieno - AFTLD<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ali Hadji Mmadi -
President - AFTLD<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mouhamet Diop - Chairman
- AfRegistrar <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pierre Dandjinou - VP
Stakeholder Engagement Africa - ICANN Org<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hadja Ouatarra Sanon -
Minister of Digital Economy, Postal Services and Digital Transformation -
Republic of Burkina Faso<span></span></span></p>
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</span>Keynote:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Evolving the DNS Ecosystem in Africa -<span></span></span></p>
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</div><div><br></div><div>For up to date information on the forum and the agenda kindly visit www.dnsforum.africa</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Barrack O. Otieno<br>+254721325277<br><a href="http://www.aftld.org">www.aftld.org</a></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">www.dnsforum.africa <br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br><br><br></div></div></div>