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wanjiku - Welcome to the ATU forum

11:22

wanjiku - The theme is "A country code Top Level Domain for every country in Africa"

11:22

wanjiku - Akossi Akossi, Secretary General of ATU

11:25

wanjiku - This is the first meeting by ATU involving various sectors to address issues of ccTLDs

11:25

wanjiku - many people prefer to use gTLDs instead of their country domains because they believe it gives them more visibility

11:26

wanjiku - this pereception can only be addressed through public private partnerships

11:27

wanjiku - The meeting will discuss the various levels of collaboration and partnership

11:28

wanjiku - ATU is an intergovernmental body under the AU

11:29

wanjiku - Lack of bandwidth makes connectivity a major issue in Africa but there are other options available that partners can explore

11:29

wanjiku - ATU has 46 member states and 18 associate members

11:31

wanjiku - Jean Pierre Ezin Commissioner in charge of human resources, science and technology- Africa Union

11:32

wanjiku - The domains are core resources supporting intenet services to more than a billion users

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wanjiku - Internet is the most empowerment tool, provides better life with no discrimination

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wanjiku - with the Internationalised Domain Names, the internet will be open to more users,

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wanjiku - The state of the African ccTLDs leaves alot to be desired, Afric is still way behind, lack of knowledge, awareness and skills, people utilize gTLDs seeking credibility

11:35

wanjiku - out of 60 million domains, only 2 million are ccTLDs and Africa has no stake in this

11:36

wanjiku - improving access will help meet the MDGs

11:39

wanjiku - Asraf Ally, Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Mauritius

11:41

wanjiku - This forum is important, Mauritius is about to initiate the redelegation of .mu domain

11:42

wanjiku - the government is setting up the required infrastructure to get back the domain

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