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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a reminder of the upcoming webinar today as per the below details.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We hope to see you there!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ICANN Africa Engagement Team</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Simon Mayoye <simon.mayoye@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 25 March 2024 at 13:07<br>
<b>To: </b>"afpif@afpif.org" <afpif@afpif.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Webinar Invitation: Building Resilient Networks - What You Need to Know About Deploying an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) Single in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">You are invited to the webinar Building Resilient Networks – What You Need to Know About Deploying an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) Single in Africa. Join us
on Thursday, 4 April 2024 at 12:00 UTC. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://icann.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9i7q5VFPQWOAnu6C3jrLaw#/registration"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Register today.</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This webinar will cover everything you need to know about IMRS Singles, including the</span><a href="https://coalitionfordigitalafrica.africa/news/phase_2_officially_opens_expansion_of_icann_managed_root_server_singles_in_africa"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">
call for expressions of interest</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> for Africa-based organizations interested in hosting their own.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">By hosting an IMRS Single, organizations can potentially enhance network performance, contribute to the robustness of the Domain Name System (DNS), decrease DNS
query response times, and reduce bandwidth usage for root-zone queries.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Join us live to have the chance to have your questions personally answered by ICANN’s during the Q&A session.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The webinar will be in English with French interpretation available via phone. Participants wishing to listen and speak in French should share their contact numbers
so that an operator can dial out to them.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We hope to see you there!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ICANN Africa Engagement Team</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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