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PNINA@Gitex-Dubai
2003
PNINA participated as exhibitor in the
Palestinian Pavilion as one of two major IT projects in
Palestine and six private companies that exhibited their
products in mobile, administration, financial and
educational areas.
Mission Goals
The main goal for PNINA participation in
Gitex was to inform the Palestinian people and other
individuals and communities outside Palestine about the
new domain and the benefits of registering an Internet
address under that domain. Another goal was to meet other
registries within the Middle East region and learn from
their experience, share ideas and build the basis for
future mutual and regional cooperation.
Mission Achievements
In general the two main goals were
successfully achieved.
Exhibiting at Gitex Dubai 2003:
From around 500 visitors to PNINA booth
within the Palestinian Pavilion, 300 showed their real
interest to register names under the .ps and registered
their names and emails to be contacted as soon as the
registration starts. An Email distribution list was
compiled of these names and will be used as the basis of
PNINA email database to be used for promotional and
marketing alerts and notifications. All visitors were
briefed about the .ps history, when and how it was
delegated and the benefits of registering names under it.
A promotional package that includes a PNINA folder,
promotion cards, business cards, datasheet and a poster
was handed over to each visitor. In addition we
distributed more than 2000 promotional cards that promote
the, ps domain and the PNINA website to encourage people
to register their names at the website also.
During the exhibition, several regional
and Palestinian ISPs and IT companies showed their real
interest in being a Certified Registrar with PNINA to
promote and register names on behalf of other companies
and individuals.
Networking and Regional Cooperation
We planned to visit three registries within
the region and the meetings were done as planned.
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UANIC, United Arab Emirates Registry
A delegation from
PNINA composed of Dr. Sabri Saidam, Mr. Omar Sahili and
Mr. Marwan Radwan met with Mr. Abdallah Hashem at Gitex on
Monday 20/10/2003 and discussed briefly the mutual
cooperation between PNINA and UAEnic. It was agreed to
hold another meeting on Wednesday 22/10/2003 to discuss
all administrative, legal and technical aspects of UAEnic
operation and future cooperation. The same delegation from
PNINA met with Mr. Abdallah Hashim, UAEnic Director and
Admin contact, Mr. Sultan Shamsi, UAEnic executive manager
and Mr. Nasser Suleiman the legal counselor. The UAE team
talked about the history of UAEnic, its structure,
administrative, technical and legal aspects of managing
the ae ccTLD. The Palestinian delegation talked about the
history of .ps and PNINA establishment and its structure.
They also talked about the current status and the planned
administrative and technical infrastructure of the .ps
domain and the planned marketing strategies. It was agreed
in the meeting that a Memorandum of Understanding to be
prepared by the Palestinian side to set the foundation of
the future cooperation between the two registries in staff
training, technical infrastructure, new protocols
implementation, legal framework and regional coordination.
It was agreed that Mr. Marwan Radwan to spend a whole day
at UAEnic to be acquainted with all aspects of managing
the ae domain but due to the changes in the travel
arrangements this was postponed to a later visit and to
accomplished remotely through emails and phone
conversations.
Another meeting was
planned with the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) which
is the registry of .eg ccTLD. On Saturday 25/10/2003 Mr.
Marwan Radwan from PNINA met with Dr. Ahmad Abdel Bassit,
Director of EUN, Mr. Tareq Edris, Technical Manager and
Ashraf Nagib, EUN webmaster. Dr, Ahmed welcomed any future
cooperation between PNINA and EUN and offered hands on
training on site in Gaza/Ramallah or in Egypt. The
Egyptian team presented full historical background of the
.eg and the EUN along with details on how it is being
managed. Mr. Radwan briefed them with the history of .ps,
the structure of PNINA and the preparations that has been
done for the launch of the .ps in the near future. He also
talked about the administrative, technical and legal plans
for the .ps domain. It was agreed that an MOU to be
prepared and exchanged between the EUN and PNINA to set
the basis for future cooperation.
A delegation from
PNINA met with the Jordanian National Information Center (NIC),
the .jo managers and discussed mutual and regional
cooperation avenues between PNINA and Jordanian NIC. | 
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