The
Africa Top Level Domains Organization (AfTLD), the association of African
country code top
level domains (ccTLDs) in collaboration with Sudan Internet Society (SIS), will
be hosting an Initial Registry Operators Course for Francophone and Anglophone African ccTLDs
in November 2012.
The
workshop which will be hosted by Sudan Internet Society, the Sudanese registry,
will be held from 24 – 29 November 2012 and will focus on enhancing the robustness and efficiency of African
registries by improving management of the technical infrastructure.
The
workshop 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 Khartoum workshop is among a series of 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 supported by the Internet Society and Francophonie as well as the policy and
annual general meeting held in Livingstone Zambia in July 2012.
As
has been the case with the past events, the Khartoum workshop is supported by
AfNIC, ISOC, Francophonie – 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 secretariat@aftld.org. or visit the event website http://www.africatopleveldomains.org/sd2012/
About AfTLD
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, developing
and presenting a unified approach to issues related to the Domain Name System.
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.
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