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In pursuit, of DNS-EC goal to outreach to the youth and work on building their skills in all aspects of the domain name industry, the center conduct-ed two workshops “DNS Operations & DNSSEC” directed towards Egyp-tian universities’ stu-dents.

The first workshop was conducted at the In-formation Technology Institute (ITI). Train-ees were all Computer Science students com-ing from the universi-ties of Fayoum, Helwan and Ain Shams. After the course, all stu-dents were invited to

attend a Big Data ses-sion hosted by ITI. All trainees expressed their interest in par-ticipating in future courses.

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The second workshop was held at Nile Universi-ty, which is a national (Ahleya), non-govern-mental and non-profit university specializing in technology and busi-ness education. Par-ticipants were mainly research assistances at the university.

Training to the employees at the Egyptian Universities NOCs19-22 Feb, 2017Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) is an integral part of the Electronic and Knowl-edge Services Center (EKSC) at the Supreme Council of Universities (SCU) and is the reg-istry of .eg, Egypt’s ccTLD, since 1991.

In a fruitful cooper-ation between DNS-EC and EUN, the center conducted a “DNS Opera-tions and DSNSEC” work-shop hosted by EUN. The workshop targeted gov-ernmental universities’

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Quotes from the attendees“I’m the admin of South Val-ley University DNS, our serv-er is DNS Microsoft operating system. We have our author-itative DNS. This workshop helps us very much. This is the first workshop for us in Linux and we hope that there are more Linux operating sys-tem courses.The training team were very helpful and the workshop is well organized.Thanks to DNS-EC & NTRAEng. Mohamed Mostafa Ahmed, System Administrator Engi-neer, South Valley University – Qena”

“I’m Shimaa Rashad, system administrator at infrastruc-ture project in Fayoum Uni-versity. It is a good chance for me to attend this work-shop because it gives me a deep look about the DNS and gives me good knowledge about Lunix. So the workshop will help me to make a migration in our data centre”

“ My name is Sara Madgi, I’m working at Aswan Universi-ty as network administrator, it was a pleasure for me to attend DNSEC course in Cairo University it was so help-ful I learned the basics of DNS, concepts security, basic concepts of DNSSEC, I had some knowledge of Linex/UNIX command and more. I hope to apply what I have learned in this course on our network systems”

tial incubators will then continue to work with the trainees to help them realize and develop their own busi-ness models. The first phase of the workshop is expected to be held between the 27th and 29th of April, 2017 at Zewail University prem-ises.

Zewail City Training Program

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professional network engineers, to foster and train them on how to manage and regulate the Internet Domain Name Systems (DNS) and its Security (DNSSEC) at their respective universities.

The training was held at EUN premises from 19-22 February with 24 trainees from the uni-versities of Damietta, South Valley, Cairo, Al-Minia, Aswan, Tanta, El-Sadat, El-Menofia, Al-Fayoum, Damanhour, Helwan, Al-Zagazig, and Port Said. The work-shop was broadcasted through a video con-ferencing service to their colleagues at the universities of Assi-ut, Mansoura, Helwan, Beni-Suef and Kafr El-Sheikh.

DNS-EC conducted a do-main name introductory seminar at the univer-sity of Science & Tech-nology at Zewail city. The introductory ses-sion is the beginning of a complete training program at Zewail Uni-versity.

The program is expect-ed to introduce the trainees to the domain name industry, future and trends, followed by case studies and ex-amples of successful business models. DNS-EC instructors and poten-

DNS-EC was present at the 20th edition of Cairo ICT, one of the leading technology events in Africa and the Middle East. The conference was a good opportunity to talk to specialized attendees and regular visitors about the center and its activities. The center attracted young technical visitors, who were interested in knowing more about DNS-EC activities and how to join its workshops.

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