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[ICANN] Weekly Digest of ICANN.org News & Announcements --------------------------------------------------------------- [La sixième édition du Forum africain sur le DNS se tiendra à Cotonou, au Bénin]( ISTANBUL - 14 juin 2018 - Du 3 au 5 juillet, le sixième Forum africain sur le DNS se tiendra à Cotonou (Bénin) sous le thème « Construire une industrie des noms de domaine durable en Afrique ». Le Forum est co-organisé par la Société pour l'attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN), l'Association africaine de noms de domaine de premier niveau (AfTLD), et AfRegistrar. Il sera accueilli par l'Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et de la Poste au Bénin (ARCEP). Le forum de cette année fait suite au succès remporté par les forums précédents tenus à ... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Sixth Africa DNS Forum to take place in Cotonou, Benin]( ISTANBUL – 14 June 2018 – On 3-5 July, the sixth Africa DNS Forum will take place under the theme “Building a Sustainable Domain Name Industry in Africa” in Cotonou, Benin. The Forum is co-organized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Africa Top Level Domains Organization (AfTLD), and AfRegistrar. It will be hosted by the Regulatory Authority of Communications Electronics in Benin (ARCEP). This year's forum follows on the success of the preceding forums, held in Durban, South Africa (2013), Abuja, Nigeria (2014), Nairobi, Kenya (2015), Marrakech, Morocco ... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Call for Expressions of Interest for 2019 Nominating Committee Chair and Chair-Elect]( Los Angeles – 13 June 2018 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) organization is seeking expressions of interest for leadership roles in the 2019 Nominating Committee (NomCom) - that of the 2019 NomCom Chair and Chair-Elect. In September 2017, the ICANN Board appointed Zahid Jamil as the 2018 NomCom Chair and J. Damon Ashcraft as the 2018 NomCom Chair-Elect. ( - 1.d.) Article 8, section 8.3(d) of the Bylaws states, “It is anticipated that upon the conclusion of the term of the Chair-Elect, ... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [BROWSE ALL NEWS]( From the ICANN Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chair's Blog: A Preview of the Panama Board Workshop]( We are less than two weeks away from ICANN62 in Panama City, Panama. That means the Board is once again getting ready for another workshop, which will be held from 22-24 June, right before the meeting. If you’ll recall, we reorganized our last workshop in Vancouver to allow for more time to discuss the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the proposed Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data, so this upcoming workshop will give us an opportunity to reconvene on some of the issues we set aside when we last met. We’ll be holding quite a few public sessi... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Engagement Efforts with Local Stakeholders in Moscow]( Göran Marby, President and CEO, ICANN, was in Moscow, Russia, from 22-24 May for a series of meetings with the Russian Internet community. He was joined by David Conrad, Chief Technology Officer, and Tarek Kamel, Senior Vice President for Government and IGO Engagement, and myself. This was the ICANN organization's first high-level visit in over five years. It was also Göran's first visit to Moscow and Eastern Europe and Central Asia region as a whole, as ICANN President and CEO. The delegation learned firsthand about the community's priorities and discussed how to foster local participat... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fourth Annual 2018 GDD Industry Summit Recap]( During the third week of May, the Global Domains Division (GDD) of the ICANN organization held its fourth annual Industry Summit in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. This year's Summit comprised of 410 attendees from over 32 countries, with dozens more participating remotely. The Summit was followed with the Registration Operation Workshop (ROW), an informal industry get-together sponsored by ICANN and Verisign. The primary purpose of the Summit is to provide a forum for ICANN's contracted parties to discuss issues of mutual interest and importance, share best practices, and meet one-o... [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [BROWSE ALL BLOG ARTICLES]( This message was sent to {EMAIL} from: ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 [Manage Your Subscription](