ISOC ccTLD Workshops

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ISOC ccTLD Workshops
Lynn St.Amour President CEO Internet Society
(ISOC)
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Internet Society Who we are

• Founded 1991 by Internet Pioneers
• International, not-for-profit, membership org.
• 150 organisation members
• 19,000 individual members
• 85 chapters, 20 chapters forming
• Organisation members fund activities in
• Standards (IETF)
• Education
• Internet Policy

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ISOC Education Activities

• Transfer of technical knowledge
• Education in technologically emerging countries
• workshops, publications, conferences
• Education of policy decision makers
• public awareness
• Open access to education material

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Technology Education

• CEDIA (Ecuador, March 2004)
• AfNOG/AfriNIC (Senegal, May 2004)
• SANOG (Nepal, July 2004)
• WALC (Peru, October 2004)
• Silk Highway (Central Asia, October 2004)
• Small Grants Programs (PanAsia Latin America)

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ccTLD Workshop - Goals

• Technical Training to create and maintain secure,
  stable, reliable services
• Assist operators to make informed choices about
  policies and procedure in response to community
  needs
• Interaction with IANA
• Hands-on clinic to address individual issues and
  circumstances
• Build working relationship among participants and
  instructors

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ccTLD Workshop (1)

• Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2004
• Hosted at the RIPE NCC
• Participants
• Benin (.bi) Nepal (.th)
• Burundi (.bj) Thailand (.th)
• Ghana (.gh) Uruguay (.uy)
• Sri Lanka (.lk)

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ccTLD Workshop (2)

• Bangkok, Thailand, October 2004
• Hosted at IntERLab AIT
• Participants
• Bangladesh (.bd) Bhutan (.bt)
• Cambodia (.kh) EastTimor (.el)
• Kazakhstan (.kz) Laos (.la)
• Mongolia (.mn) Vietnam (.vn)

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ccTLD Workshop (3)

• Organised by LAgence de la Francophonie in
  cooperation with ISOC
• Cameroon, December 2004
• Participants
• Togo (.tg) Mali (.ml)
• Dem. Rep. of Congo (.cd) Congo (.cg)
• Centr. African Republic (.cf) Comoros (.km)
• Mauritius (.mu) Gabon (.ga)
• Cameroon (.cm)

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Thanks to Instructors Sponsors

• PIR as sponsor
• ICANN, NSRC, Francophonie
• ISC, SIDN, NLnetLab, RIPE NCC
• Technologies Reseaux Solutions
• Registro.br, Univ. of Oregon

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Potential Future Workshops

• Many requests to attend workshop
• Many offers to host workshop
• Africa (possibly with AfNOG)
• Central Asia (as part of Virtual Silk Highway
  project)
• Latin America (possibly with LACNIC)

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More Information

• ccTLD Workshop details
• http//www.isoc.org/educpillar/
• ISOC Workshop Portal
• http//ws.edu.isoc.org/