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. Ends. -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/