A two-day
workshop on domain names, trademarks and rights protection on the continent ends
at the Hotel Novotel Orisha Cotonou with 25 African countries participating, ITRealms reports.
Also, ITRealms reports that over 80 attendees came
from the 25 participating African countries.
The workshop
put together by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ITRealms gathered was opened by Komi
Koutche, the Beninese, Minister for Information and Communications Technology in
the company of Mr. David Olive, ICANN’s Vice President for Policy Development
Support.
Additionally,
ITRealms gathered that participants cut
across the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) managers, registrars, practitioners of
intellectual property rights, rights protection specialists to name a few and
had the opportunity to share best practices for the protection of users' rights
on the continent.
According to
Olive, “Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) will have a profound impact on brand
owners, regional industry and consumers,” stressing that it is important that
ICANN supports Africa in its strategy to promote Internet industry.
He also revealed
to ITRealms that the workshop affords
ccTLD managers and registrars to be better equipped for the rapid
implementation of measures for the security, management and promotion of
ccTLDs.
“This is a
critical part in enabling the Domain Name industry to flourish in African
digital economy,” he said.
Pierre
Dandjinou , the Vice President of ICANN for Africa, disclosed to ITRealms that the protection of rights
is hardly addressed in Africa and mechanisms for protection of existing rights
are not very popularized on the continent hence the workshop,
“As many
African countries having started to organize their structures of intellectual
property rights, it may be necessary to better inform them on the relationship
between domain names, trademarks and the mechanisms for conflict resolution,“
Dandjinou said.
Photo: Pierre Dandjinou , the Vice President of ICANN for Africa
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