Written by Vanessa Kariuki ||
Kenya has been chosen as the first host nation for the ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) Cluster in Africa by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Gorman Marby, the global CEO of ICANN, and Eliud, the cabinet secretary for information and the digital economy, met to discuss the project’s future.
The private, nonprofit, non-governmental organization known as ICANN is in charge of managing the root server system, domain name system (DNS), and allocation of IP address space, among other Internet Protocol (IP)-related tasks.
According to Owalo, this technology is essential for transforming the nation into an information hub for the continent of Africa, as well as for significantly improving internet quality, cybersecurity, and resilience.
” This is key in transforming the country as an information gateway of internet traffic for Africa region as well as greatly enhance internet quality, cybersecurity & resilience,” tweeted Owalo
He added, “This development is a key milestone towards achievement of objectives outlined in Kenya Kwanza’s Digital Superhighway & Creative Economy plans.”
The responsibility of ICANN is to manage the vast and intricately interwoven network of unique identifiers that enables computers on the Internet to locate one another.
This is known as “universal resolvability,” and it means that whenever you access the network, wherever you are in the world, you will experience the same predictable outcomes. Without it, the Internet might operate very differently depending on where you are in the world.
