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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">ISOC-ICANN Webinar:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red">Monday, 30 January 2023, 14:00 UTC</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Building African IXP Infrastructure: Progressing the Coalition for Digital Africa.”</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">ICANN Interim President & CEO Sally Costerton, ISOC CEO Andrew Sullivan,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">and the African IXP Association
(AF-IX) Co-Coordinator Kyle Spencer</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>will share their thoughts about the future of peering and interconnection in Africa and how our partnership will help to speed Internet access for users across
the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Kindly register<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://events.zoom.us/ev/Al1m_2QI349WkyLgJVCXpOP4L0onkb3RB61EmFnUa_ECHdT6fXL7~AggLXsr32QYFjq8BlYLZ5I06Dg" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://events.zoom.us/ev/Al1m_2QI349WkyLgJVCXpOP4L0onkb3RB61EmFnUa_ECHdT6fXL7*AggLXsr32QYFjq8BlYLZ5I06Dg__;fg!!PtGJab4!668wHYavxQ_Nn4tQM1FYizOaPAcmK7ZwV9dM1UIdUKlu1UXanwZzH0VQwZmrL9V3ZyHWSFvyFoDO7-8zUhmTy9PuL3Ii$">here</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">UA DAY :
</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red">Deadline for application is 31 January 2023</span></b><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-and-ua-steering-group-announce-inaugural-ua-day-and-call-for-proposals-21-12-2022-en">The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN) and the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) are calling for event proposals for the inaugural Universal Acceptance (UA) Day to be held on 28 March 2023</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Details are now available at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://uasg.tech/ua-day" title="https://uasg.tech/ua-day">https://uasg.tech/ua-day</a>. Last date to apply for funded proposals is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red">31
January 2023. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">Yaovi ATOHOUN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director, Stakeholder Engagement & Operations - Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">www.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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