Istanbul to become a global internet center

[Yuuki]

Infrastructure, growing technology sector, proximity to Europe, Middle-East and Africa make Istanbul ideal location

Istanbul, Turkey (PRWEB) April 25, 2013

ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé today announced the organization will open its first hub office in Istanbul, Turkey.
The announcement marks a significant moment in the evolution of ICANN as it prepares to spread its operational functions across three global headquarters - Los Angeles (current location), Istanbul and Singapore.
“ICANN is becoming increasingly international in terms of our outlook, policies and the makeup of our staff. Now our global hub strategy will take our internationalism to an improved operational level,” said Chehadé. “These hub offices will become part of the core fabric of ICANN.”
The Istanbul hub office will be led by David Olive, ICANN’s Vice President for Policy Development. A number of current ICANN staff will relocate to Istanbul over the coming months and local staff also will be hired.
“We looked closely at a number of possible global locations,” said Fadi Chehadé. “We chose Istanbul because of the quality of its infrastructure, growing ICT sector, business-friendly environment and its close cultural and geographic proximity to Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.”
“ICANN provides efficient and considered management of the Internet’s Domain Name System, and today marks the latest step in the organization’s journey of extending its global influence,” said Binali Yıldırım, Turkey’s Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications. “The ICANN European HUB is being established in Istanbul to act as an epicenter that will help shape Internet policy to deliver a more connected community across Europe, Middle East and Africa.”
ICANN currently is overseeing the implementation of more than 1,400 new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), representing one of the biggest changes to the Internet since its inception. The first wave of these domains will come online in the coming months. As a result of this massive expansion of the Domain Name System (DNS), ICANN too is expanding as it continues its mission to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet.
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About ICANN: ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | ICANN.

ICANN Announces Opening of Istanbul Hub

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Minister of Transportation and Communication Binali Yıldırım announced that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit corporation which oversees the Internet address system, has decided to alter their U.S.-based structure by building a second headquarters in Istanbul, which he says will turn Turkey into one of the most important hubs in the internet world.

Minister Yıldırım recently announced that parallel to the acceleration of the globalization of the internet, one of the most important dynamics to mark this era, ICANN has decided to divide their global administration into three main headquarters. Yıldırım went on to state that it is within this framework that the corporation has decided to divide operations amongst three headquarters in Turkey, Singapore and California, a move he says will ensure the true globalization of the internet.

Minister Yıldırım explained that all of ICANN's operational activities in Africa, the Middle East and Europe will now be conducted from their Istanbul center. "As a result, all information will be stored in Turkey and traffic will continue from here to surrounding nations. Singapore will be the base for Asia, Los Angeles will be the base for North America and Turkey will be the hub for all operational activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa," said Yıldırım.

''Our work has been fruitful''

Expressing that as a government; they are devoted to increasing Turkey's global competitive strength within the framework of technological developments and have made the transformation to an information society one of their priority policies, Minister Yıldırım stated: ''We are conducting important efforts to ensure the widespread use of the internet in all areas in Turkey and our work has been fruitful. Istanbul is about to become an Internet Management Center, making it one of the most important hubs, like the United Nations of the internet world," said Yıldırım.
''Turkey will be a regional cyber power''

Communication Minister Yıldırım underlined that in addition to ICANN's work in coordinating the address and name system in the internet, they also have a significant place in the development and evolution of the internet.

''In one sense, ICANN'S establishing of a second headquarters in Istanbul means our nation will become a regional cyber power. This situation will create a new area of employment and competence for our young, dynamic and educated work force," stated Yıldırım who went on to emphasize the great importance the hub to be formed in Istanbul will have from a global internet strategy perspective in the future.

"The bottom line is that this is an indicator of the trust by authorities in internet governance in Turkey's internet policies. In addition, the fact that ICANN will have one of its headquarters in Istanbul will be both an example as well as an incentive for a number of international establishments and firms to set up their regional operational centers and data warehouses in our nation," said Yıldırım.

WHAT IS ICANN?

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is a non-profit corporation which was created to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed by the U.S. government.

ICANN is responsible for the coordination of the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers and of securing its stable and secure operation. This includes coordinating Internet Protocol address spaces (IP) and the assignment of address blocks to regional Internet registries as well as managing top-level domain name space (DNS), which includes the operation of root name servers.

ICANN's work has been described as helping to preserve the operational consistency of the internet, to promote competition and to secure a broader participation of the global internet community and to develop policies appropriate to its mission.

 

[krølbååx]

Binali Yıldırım should stick his thumb up in his arse or start providing turkish people with cheap and fast internet like the rest of the civilized world instead of robbing their money out with crappy and expensive internet. "Istanbul to become a global internet center" yeah right. ******* jackass.