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ICANN’s 7th Global Engagement Centre to open on Tuesday in Nairobi
Together with The Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology and the Communications Authority of Kenya, ICAAN will open the office…
Together with The Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology and the Communications Authority of Kenya, ICAAN will open the office on 24th May, 2016. The move to launch the Nairobi Office is part of ICANN’s growing effort to establish an ICANN presence in all parts of the globe
Among the key people present for the event will be Pierre Dandjinou, VP Africa, Sally Costerton, Senior Advisor to The President & Senior Vice President, Global Stakeholder Engagement and Tarek Kamel, Senior Advisor to The President & Senior Vice President, Government and IGOs Engagement.
In ICANN’s May newsletter, read, “The Internet community in Africa applauded the decision, which they saw as strong evidence of ICANN’s continued commitment to Africa. We are glad to inform you that the office is now fully operational. Plans to officially launch the office are underway – the official opening ceremony will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 24 May 2016.”
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The move to have ICANN to have an engagement centre in Nairobi was brought about during ICANN’s March 2016 meeting in Marrakech, where ICANN’s Chair of Board of Directors, Dr. Stephen Crocker, announced that, as of April 1, 2016, it will open a new engagement office in Nairobi, Kenya.
These small offices are each focused on regional and other specific engagement efforts, which increase ICANN’s responsiveness in the respective regions and help improve ICANN’s regional engagement.
The Nairobi Engagement Centre will be the seventh engagement centre. ICANN currently has six engagement offices in Washington, D.C., USA; Brussels, Belgium; Geneva, Switzerland; Montevideo, Uruguay; Seoul, Korea and Beijing, China.
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ICANN is a global organization whose mission is to ensure the stable and secure operation of the Internet’s unique identifier system — for example the Internet’s domain names. ICANN also facilitates policy development by stakeholders from around the globe reasonably related to those technical functions. The ICANN multistakeholder model brings together thousands of representatives from large and small businesses, technical experts, civil society, researchers, academics and end users from all over the world.