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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello all,<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 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2022
<span style="color:black">at 12:00 UTC. </span></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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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Invitation à participer au webinaire « Construire des réseaux résilients : tout ce que vous devez savoir sur le déploiement d’instances du serveur racine géré par l’ICANN (IMRS)
en Afrique »</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">Nous vous invitons au webinaire « Construire des réseaux résilients : tout ce que vous devez savoir sur le déploiement d’instances du serveur racine géré par l’ICANN
(IMRS) en Afrique ». Rendez-vous le jeudi 4 avril à 12h00 UTC.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://icann.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9i7q5VFPQWOAnu6C3jrLaw%23/registration"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">N’hésitez pas à vous y inscrire dès aujourd’hui.</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">Ce webinaire présentera toutes les informations que vous devez connaître sur les instances IMRS unitaire , et en particulier sur</span><a href="https://fr.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">
l’appel à manifestations d'intérêt </span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">lancé auprès des organisations basées en Afrique intéressées à héberger un de ces serveurs.</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">L’hébergement d’une instance IMRS permet aux organisations d’améliorer la performance de leur réseau, de raccourcir les délais de réponse à des requêtes DNS et de
réduire l’utilisation de bande passante pour les requêtes de la zone racine.</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">Rejoignez-nous en direct pour avoir la possibilité de poser vos questions à l'ICANN lors de la session de questions-réponses.</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">Le webinaire se déroulera en anglais, avec un service d’interprétation simultanée en français qui sera disponible via téléphone. Les participants qui souhaitent
écouter et parler en français sont invités à communiquer leur numéro de téléphone pour que l’opérateur puisse les joindre.</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">Nous espérons vous compter parmi nous !</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">L’équipe de l’ICANN chargée de l’Engagement avec les parties prenantes en Afrique</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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