1. The DNS Entrepreneurship Center (DNS-EC)
GAC Regional Workshop | Nairobi, Kenya | Jan, 2017

2. ICANN Regional Strategies
Develop the Domain Name Industry Ecosystem
A recommendation of the Africa and Middle East Regional Strategies in 2013

3. The DNS Entrepreneurship Center (DNS-EC)
Announced as a joint project between ICANN and Egypt’s National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) at the ICANN 50 meeting in June 2014
The DNS-EC develops local expertise to help grow the domain name industry in Africa and the Middle East
ICANN provides expertise
NTRA incubates and supports the DNS-EC

4. Capacity Building Activities
SWOT workshops for local DNS markets
Tunis and Doha (Oct 2015); Muscat and Dubai (Feb 2016); Rabat (May 2016)
DNS Business Development and Marketing
Cairo (Apr 2015); Cotonou (Dec 2016)
Registry Best Practices, Cairo (Apr 2015)
Domain Name Disputes, Cairo (Jan 2016)
Train the Trainer, Dubai (Apr 2015)
DNS Operations and DNSSEC, Cairo (Jul 2015)
Introduction to Network Operations with ISOC (Online course)

5. Capacity Building Activities
Over 250 trainees from 20 countries

6. Youth Outreach Program
Partnership with IBM MEA University program
DNS Operations Workshop, Cairo (Nov 2016)
Partnership with the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)
DNS Operations Workshop Faculty of Computer and Information Science at Ain Shams University, Cairo (July 2016)
Local trainers conduct these workshops

7. Questions?! Baher Esmat VP, Global Stakeholder Engagement, Middle EastE: W:
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