 Okay everyone we will start shortly and Amudu will introduce us shortly Amudu whenever you're ready I think you can go ahead. Yes yes yes I'm ready. So good morning to all our participants for this morning meeting. I would like to thank you first for accepting to participate to this online meeting on dot post. I would like also to acknowledge the presence of all our members from government, regulatory authorities, designated operators and restricted unions. We have also with us the UPU field expert in Africa they just we just appointed them and we invite them to start. This will be their first activities with us. UPU dot post webinar series is back as you say. Today's edition will focus on the digital transformation on posts in Africa and the ways to facilitate it in line with the highest standards of information and data security. The topic of today's meeting is dot post and African post enabling your digital transformation journey safely and securely. I have with me this morning my colleague Tracy who will make a presentation and after that you will be able to ask any any questions for you to understand what is happening behind dot post. So without any protocol, Tracy you have the floor. Thank you very much Amadou for that very warm welcome and thank you very much for organizing today's session. I really appreciate the opportunity to present all of you in the African region. Really fantastic opportunity here to showcase the dot post platform and what it can do for you. My name is Tracy Haksha. I am the dot post projects manager. I'm speaking speak some friends sometimes so chef de projet dot post and along with me today will be me Sam Sabra from the dot post team. She is the dot post projects assistant assistant de projet dot post and she will also be presenting actually later on in the presentation. Also in today's session we will have a short intervention from one of our dot post group associate members. Do you mean and I will indicate when they will come in and give you a short introduction to what they do and how they potentially can assist the African posts within dot post utilizing a dot post platform and their solution and they've recently joined the dot post group as an associate member so we want to welcome them as well. Let me first begin to share my screen and confirm that everyone can see it when I do that. In the meantime maybe what I could ask you to do is as you've been doing so far perhaps you can use the chat box to everyone and introduce yourselves in the chat say who you are where you're from or post you're from and in terms of questions my suggestion would be that we would use the Q&A box but we also field questions within the chat as we see these questions arise. All right so I'm about to share my screen and I'm just going to confirm that you are seeing my screen. So if you cannot see my screen let us know I'm assuming you can and I'm not seeing anybody seeing they can't see it so I'm going to proceed. Yes we can see you are still. Thank you very much. All right so as I said my name is Tracy Haksha chef theproject.post I'll be having the first part of today's presentation and as Amadou said we are looking at how we can enable you as African posts your digital transformation journey how we can enable that safely and securely because as you may be aware within the dot post team we are focused not just on the digital aspects but also on the cyber security aspects we want to ensure that whatever you do in terms of digital services are done very safely and extremely securely so that's one of our focus points and now you will be seeing that today in our slide deck. All right so we'll start with a short video so what is dot post some of you may have seen this before but I just wish to bear with us it's about two minutes just to give you a brief introduction to what dot post is with a short video so I'm going to play this video now and I'm going to assume you can all hear so stand by. Welcome to dot post a unique internet space managed by the universal post. Welcome to dot post a unique internet space managed by the universal postal union benefiting its members and the whole postal community a safe space on the internet dedicated exclusively to postal services where security is maintained 24 hours a day each member of the dot post community can offer their postal services with confidence a unique innovative integrated and boundless space in constant expansion there are already over 50 members in the dot post group taking on the challenge to successfully facilitate cohesive digital strategies globally security standards adopted for dot post prevent redirection to unintended and fraudulent sites phishing attacks malware botnet and spam are monitored under dot post complying with incident management procedures members can establish secure email solutions under dot post as well dot post is a digital gateway to new business possibilities posts can extend or transform the traditional services by using dot post they can improve their visibility enhancing brand recognition on the internet dot post is a safe and reliable online market space for buyers and sellers through dot post members can provide value-added postal services in the cloud and offer secure digital solutions including e-commerce posts have already established a secure online sales channel for stamps and philately products with dot post customers can track their shipments worldwide through global track and trace dot post the challenge for the dot post group is now to continue facilitating a cohesive digital transformation for dot post members worldwide increasing its membership services and value for money in dot post every member can design and implement innovative digital solutions in products and services to facilitate customer integration and inclusion bridging the digital divide to achieve this the dot post group has prepared a strategy to fully support members during their journey join the dot post group now and be part of the change so i was hopeful that you will have seen that and heard that and just a quick introduction as to what we we are about so let's go just further into some what was said um we have four key strategic pillars um which we also call our goals as you can see on the slide i don't necessarily want to read them out but they really focus on you know driving digital transformation so the primary or goal one is to increase the visibility of the post in a digital economy but also um along with that is to promote trust in digital postal services so that's as i mentioned before a key aspect of what we attempt to do um as well as overall accelerating digital transformation and innovation now to do that we have created a dot post framework which we are rolling out and it's a future forward framework so what you're seeing on the slide deck is the both the current state and the vision and where we want to take this forward so in terms of the current state which is in the darker blue that you're seeing on the slide as you can perhaps see from the bottom we are looking at our dot post governance and compliance as sort of wrapping our um security blanket around the entire framework from a policy standpoint and just on above that from the later we have our security infrastructure which is where we implement um all the dot post cybersecurity aspects that we will showcase today and talk about including our um new tool cyber trap dot post which is designed to help with um compliance with these security measures within the policies but what do you mean i'll be aware of is that we are also working on a shared services platform which i think many of you may be most interested in so in that shared services platform we are looking to deploy a series of shared services quite obviously on the first layer on the left you'll see sub security services which we've begun deploying as i mentioned cyber trap dot post and certain elements within that being rolled out in terms of compliance but also we have also any process of rolling out a suit which will also be of use and value to the postal sector um within the cyber trap dot post we actually have deployed e-learning um an e-learning platform um our dot post learning platform to begin offering e-learning services specifically to two um security dns security cyber hygiene and other aspects of cyber security um so we have rolled that out that's currently available and we'll talk a bit about that coming up in the next few slides um in terms of e-commerce services many of you may be aware that we have been working with posts in the past and you'll see it um in the next few slides um e-commerce services um our intention is to concretize that even further and to offer a full blown shared service um for e-commerce that will run on the dot post platform so look out for that in 2023 um sort of a shared e-commerce platform including payments e-commerce marketplace type services you know getting some shopping cart services and other related services that relate to e-commerce we are working to try and roll that out in the next 12 to 18 months another major project we're working on is secure email services as a shared service so we are in pretty advanced discussions with a key um global email service provider who offers encrypted email um so it's not the email that you might be familiar with but it's a encrypted email or secure email service that in the first stage we intend to provide um a much cheaper pricing for that service that's currently available on the market for you and we are working with this provider to ideally deploy it as a shared service running fully on a dot post platform but that's something that takes a little while longer and we're working to see how best we can do something like that and um make that service available as as quickly as possible within the next 12 to 18 months we're also looking to offer um on this platform hosting services not necessarily um within the upu but with a partner that we will validate and and ensure that um has a highest of security that that partner or partners will be offered again at very reasonable prices probably lower than market prices as far as we can work with the provider to do so data services we are currently in the process of rolling out series of data initiatives with with other colleagues within the upu including with the the the digital transmission innovation group who are seeking to do a data thon in the next few months and we would like to ensure that that is hosted on an open data platform that will be hosted on the dot post environment and of course a slew of other services that there are too many to mention here that just call them x so anything as a service as you might be aware that's what x means we will work with you to roll out a series of additional services based on your demand based on your needs but certainly based on what we believe the market is is is really pointing towards and this could be in a series of opportunities including things like offering conferencing and all types of services that might be available in a secure environment so we're looking forward to hear from you so what we potentially can offer um to you as the post in our service platform going forward just above that you would see on the um on the slide our applications marketplace what we intend to talk about there is having applications we've been approached by many people both within the postal sector designated operators as well as within the wider postal sector the wider postal sector players to have applications that are you know sort of veteran certified by us available to be utilized within the postal sector so we intend to really roll that out in some form of marketplace or some environment that you can access those applications that we would have certified and vetted um and proceed forward that in that regard and in sort of at the at the top and the crowning achievement of all of this we would like to to roll out a dot post digital center of excellence where we can have best practices from all of the postal sector in digital services um not just the applications not just the technology but also the way you've implemented your project management approach your you know your security approach whatever you have done to ensure that has been rolled out successfully these best practices can be made available to all the postal sector the wider postal sector including designated operators to ensure that we have a much more secure and cohesive as well as advanced postal sector going forward so why exactly are we doing this and let's look at the current state of play so but I'm not I'm not necessarily going to go into the details of these figures but the all of the the the statistics are pointing towards a challenge um with postal volumes national postal volumes where it seems as if there's a significant decline not just in in Africa but across actually all regions there's a decline in letter volumes and in and parcel volumes and cargo volumes across the regions and not just because of COVID-19 so as you can see on this slide right across the world there are negative numbers in all of the the aspects of of your you know what your volumes look like in terms of looking at a trend as you can see even an EMS letters and parcels the trend is is very much down and this of course provides a challenge to the postal sector in terms of revenue where how you can generate additional revenue going forward especially given the challenges you are currently facing according to these figures there doesn't appear to be a rebound in postal volumes even after COVID-19 I know the pandemic is not yet over but there's not really a clear rebound and the only positive note we we have observed is an international parcel post where that is up tipped by just under six percent in the last you know last year about three years I should say but every every other indication appears to be downward there's a lot of pressure down on this currently however cargo is most resilient to shocks so when you look at the the idea of having items that are potentially aspects of e-commerce in terms of cargo shipments they notice that that is one thing that is generally most resilient to shocks and this reflects a shift from not just the business to consumer but the business to business to consumer e-commerce so basically you know shipping large quantities of items from business to business and then to the consumer and the postal sector should in fact be seeking to get on board that train because it appears that is where the greatest potential for growth is going forward in the postal sector so to do that we are seeking to promote and advocate the the idea of digital transformation throughout the entire postal sector and with our colleagues within the upu who have been working on this and from a policy perspective there is a there is a model that is very clearly labeled and defined as the what the priority areas for the upu are in terms of digital transformation this looks at digital skills digital infrastructure digital inclusion as well as basic digital economy services e-government digital financial services and e-commerce services and these are all in line with our work with the united nations and their drive to the sdgs and the forthcoming global digital compact that is being reviewed and discussed as we speak in preparation for the summit of the future that will be held in 2024 in looking at these particular levels within the policy side of the um discussion as you can see that there is a drive towards moving posts towards participating fully in national regional international strategies including those way to digital upskilling um in terms of developing sustainable and and secure in digital infrastructures that that's where that post plays a significant role and we do would like we do want to show and position the posts as key in that infrastructure going forward in your national infrastructure and you need to see yourself as key as in that as well so not just only for your sector um your specific area but also within the wider national sphere in terms of digital transformation and digital services we believe that the post can play significant roles in any area such as digital identity e-health and even wider and emerging technologies such as AI robotics big data not just in terms of delivering on that role so utilizing it within the poster sector within your post and becoming a model user in in terms of deploying this technology it'll be very very useful to have the post position themselves as one of the leading technology uh purveyors within in your country and show yourself as a model user as I said before um by not only using it but also delivering those services to your your stakeholders in that way you build trust and that way you'll also be able to to improve uptake of your own services it'll be a self-reinforcing cycle that goes on and that's what's been given seeing thus far so as I mentioned this overall framework that we have we believe will be the the key to unlocking that digital transformation um potential within the poster sector and we certainly invite you to take part or to participate fully in that in our digital transformation agenda that we want to work with you um work together with you on we have been highlighting very recently several of our dot post group members who have been focused almost intensely on on growing their digital business and digital channels one of them as you might or may or may not be aware of is Zimbabwe is in post and they have been been very successful but they're Zimbabwe more initiative um running on a dot post platform as you can see um a quite successful initiative where they're on board significant several MSMEs was in their marketplace to deliver services to the post and of course they benefit um through the the delivery of the products and the goods and services that would emerge from those uh from those um merchants or those MSMEs that are coming on board. Tanzania as well um they have been deploying um actually two aspects of their business on dot post a philatelie shop or stamps dot tz dot post as well as poster shop tz dot post which is similar to what has been offered almost been showcasing Zimbabwe so on the one hand um focusing on a very critical area um philatelie stamps and selling stamps online you know these in this case it's it's um physical stamps but i'll show you later that they can even take another direction to go with the digital crypto stamp um direction um but also they're also working on the um products you know the product good the actual goods and selling those goods and delivering those goods as well another store that has been utilizing dot post in Uruguay so to sell stamps um stamps dot ui dot post again one of our first um proponents or or exponents of the dot post platform utilizing the um the dot post framework. Here's another here's an interesting and I thought very interesting model so we we talk about digital services to your customers but there's also an approach you can take by using dot post and a dot post security of the platform to deliver to your internal customers i.e your employees or even your b2b um and your b2b networks so la post Senegal has actually gone i've taken a very interesting road by running the the internet and the internet services or the internal services on dot post because of the security levels that they're able to to benefit from so as you can see they have been running um their share point environments running on dot post and their their email and write until email environment be running on dot post as well so i think that's a very useful um model that you can you can deliver so you don't only have to work on a project that faces externally but you can deliver a project that looks internally and build out your digital services within your organization and build out securely even before you go out to the public so i thought that was very interesting and i and i would like to see more of that and perhaps you can really work with us to to work on something along those lines and if you post already reached out to us to help them along with this project these types of projects so please feel free to reach out to us and we can work with you to get some of these things implemented going forward I mentioned before about partnering with wider poster sector players in the private sector in areas that um you know may not be in the domain of the poster sector normally because it's not in your day-to-day business but many of other wider poster sector players um this is their burden but it's what they do on a daily basis so they are working in the space or the spaces that are um considered to be emerging technology in the blockchain space in the web 3.0 space in the NFT space in the digital identity space and the crypto-stand space and this is something that we are very keen on continuing to work with our our private sector partners on and be able to offer those types of services to you um through our not post platform as posts um you may or will have heard of Stamstack who is one of our successful not post group members who have since graduated and have gone fully into the crypto-stand world by having at least three and and several more posts um on but being on board their platform um Bhutan, Botswana and Côte d'Ivoire have really been onboarded and they are more underway and as you may have heard as well or may have seen in recent news they were they were assigned they were able to sign an MOU with the Pan-African Posted Union Papu and um to work with Papu as well as ourselves and WADP to continue building out a crypto-stands marketplace on blockchain for the poster sector so we congratulate Stamstack on this one of our not post group members and um you can contact us a little bit more about them now we also have had our recent member GeoMean joining us um GeoMean is uh Biscayre Digital Identity um player and they as you can see from this particular extract of a comment they gave on joining us they have a vision of providing a digital address for everyone and they've already built out and I've seen it myself a UDID infrastructure for individuals, businesses and organizations to bring that vision to reality um so I'd like to perhaps pause here and invite GeoMean um to present um about just about a few minutes while they present their their solution to us and allow them to come into the discussion now so I'd like to pause here and invite GeoMean to come in as we're coming right at this moment and stop sharing and invite them to jump in great thank you Tracey uh good morning everybody this is Svaldavavi from GeoMean it's a pleasure to join um I will start by first uh just showing you guys a short uh sorry can you see me I can't see you as yet nope no seeing you maybe hearing you but you can't see you as it says it says it says the video was stopped by the host uh so just asking the host um Christoph we can allow Sol to um have his turn his camera and to share his screen as well Sol could you please try now to open your camp okay it's working now can you guys see me I'm seeing a fuzzy I see a fuzzy part of your screen ah there we go something I think it's covered it's covered maybe I think you have tape you have do you have tape over your camera no it's it should be fine now hold on a second sorry very very very right there we go I think it's getting yes there we go yes okay you can see me now yes yes okay great uh yes so good morning this is Sol Alavavi I will start by just playing a short video about you know what we do so just give me a second I will I will share my screen almost 2,500 years ago Persian king Cyrus the Great laid the foundation for modern-day logistics when he invented a system for delivering letters and parcels to his citizens that system evolved over the centuries and today an address is defined typically by five or more lines of text to include unit number street name postcode town and country addresses are created by government agencies and pretty much like relatives you have no choice in what your address is geo main changes all of this by empowering you to name your address we capture your gps ordinance and allow you to dynamically link it to a unique identifier name that you choose this name is called the geo main geo main gives businesses the opportunity to enhance their brand value and much more so how does it work adam who lives in Singapore registers a geo main geo adam and links it to his home's gps coordinates subsequently he moves to Hong Kong where he simply links his new Hong Kong home's coordinates to his geo main he next moves to London and here too he captures and links his new home's gps coordinates to geo adam this makes his geo main is always current address for life neat huh imagine simply scanning your geo main qr code or entering it instead of the long form address when booking a ride or navigating on the road or on forms online and offline or using your geo main as your geo validated id adding a much needed extra layer of security to your transactions well imagine no more get your unique geo main now before someone else does all you need is a geo main okay uh there is a there is another representation that i would like to share with everybody here so just bear with me please while i pull that up okay great so uh this is the the the first slide is actually the video which everybody has just watched so i'll move on to the next slide so essentially geo main just enables everybody with a phone to establish an address for life um there it's it's available in the in the form of a mobile app that's uh that's available on both the google play store as well as the apple store it's available today for download um you will be able to enter your name you'll be able to create a geo main a subject to availability and you'll be able to enter your first name last name phone number and an email we would send you an otp which is a one-time password to validate the phone number and then your geo main is basically been registered and that's your digital identity for life a very important way of looking at this is that you know we are basically a universal location platform and open source universal location platform and what this does is that you can use your geo main for uh you know we envision that a geo main would be able to be used for signing in signing up uh you know any kind of interaction you do with the uh digital ecosystem around you uh would actually require a a digital identity at the moment uh you know for lack of people having a digital identity uh everybody uses emails and passwords which we know are not secure at all so uh we are actually the missing link between the individual and the ecosystem that surrounds us uh okay my next slide seems to be disappear and i'm trying to figure out what's wrong hold on a second let me just okay maybe i need to stop sharing and load this again sorry just give me a second mother do that please okay we got it back so uh so geo main also replaces the serious error phone and forget about four or five line addresses that we have so because we we actually have thought outside the box when we are developing the app and we use the gps coordinates themselves we are map agnostic so you can actually use any map that's available the local map google maps here maps whatever and because it's gps it's actually the accuracy is typically limited to about five to 10 meters from the actual spot it's it's equivalent of you know one way of looking at it is that a geomain is very similar to a domain a domain would point to a url or a website whereas a geomain would point to a gps coordinate or a physical address so we all know that addresses generally are you know the five line addresses the standard format we currently use are you know fairly difficult to remember cumbersome and obviously even from a handling point of view you know they're they're fairly inefficient we've got some other solutions in the market like what three words which are random three words that are used to identify a location and we've got even google has a similar thing it's called the plus codes which again are random alphanumeric numbers as you can see in this example over here and again these are very difficult to remember so geomain is actually unique in that we are offering custom names which can basically be created by the user himself or herself and they will then be registered as a digital identity in our registry which is the geomain registry the other important thing to notice that geomain is available in seven different characters so that pretty much covers most of the languages on the you know spoken on the planet and there is a matching qr code for each you know for each geomain so it is it it is a true digital identity if you look at the if you look at the actual potential of this you know let's let's let's look at domain names which are the next best thing of that that we can compare this to at this moment so we've got about three hundred and fifteen million registered domain names as i speak and you know right now what we what we're saying is that the total available market you know proven market is three hundred and fifteen million domain names we are assuming that about only five percent of the people would would actually go and buy a matching geomain and again this is a free me model so the vast majority of consumers would be able to obtain their geomain free of course by downloading the app some of them who would want a you know what we call a premium geomain which would be two three or four character geomains then they would actually be required to pay for it and that's our revenue models our revenue model really revolves around those businesses who want a geomain name and we think the vast majority of people who own a domain would want a matching geomain and obviously people that are going to you know who would like to have it a VIP or a short geomain name and they would be required to you know pay an animal fees just like they do for a domain name we'll move to the next slide which is diverse revenue streams yes so these are the different revenue streams that geomain earns so people you know organizations like post offices that come in as geomain partners would you know they essentially become custodians of the digital identity in their respective countries and they are able to earn revenue streams from a variety of different sources these are just about five of the diverse revenue streams that have been listed here so obviously it's the sale of geomain names it's api licensing fees then there are business pages that are available on the geo you know on the business geomains and that's paid advertising then we've got things like heat maps and stuff which are in the pipeline they'll be coming in and they they too are going to earn revenue for the respective post partners and obviously address and identity identification APIs for KYC purposes which as we all know is a huge business opportunity for the post partners to you know look forward to so the unique value proposition as a sustainable competitive advantage so universal digital identity it's you know it can be used as a gateway access gateway for all apps you know it's a custom name name in seven different characteristics as I just mentioned a while ago if you look at the app one of the unique features of geomain is that the app allows you to upload instructions to the door in four different formats so you're going to take photos you could take a video you could scribble some text onto a field and say this is how you get to the door and obviously you could also do a voice recording as well so what happens is every time for example if a pizza guy wants to deliver pizza to you or a mailman wants to deliver mail and he cannot locate where you are you know you know he doesn't have to call you he can just listen to the instructions that you've uploaded once and he or she would be able to get to where you are and obviously doesn't even real-time dual validation which has tremendous use cases and especially in the financial services industry when it comes to fraud prevention and all these other you know important banking functionalities where are we at at the moment this is the milestone so we are in the process of appointing geomain name registrars we are in discussions with the members of the UPU to do some pilot projects with them we are also working on on a project called the E-STAMP project which would actually use geomains to generate QR code stamps that could be you know digitally generated using an app and it could be made available to all the consumers from the comfort of their homes and from you know really the comfort of the devices there's some curated deployments we are working on in you know a couple of countries which are going to involve e-commerce players logistic players and everything because we want to test that and see exactly what kind of results we can expect and be able to generate some white papers for future use case deployments in the developed countries this is just a very quick slide on the on the E-STAMP so this is what a typical E-STAMP would look like that would be generated on your app which which which we can embed within existing postal partners mobile applications a lot of postal partners have their own mobile apps available and this this module can be made available to them to embed within their app for the benefit of your consumers where they can generate these E-STAMPs and the the beauty being obviously that they do not necessarily have to print these stamps so they can further save costs by simply scribbling the unique stamp ID which is stated on the stamp on a normal and as most postal partners already have OCR technology available when it comes to handling mail we could actually provide an API which could very easily link with existing postal partners where they could read and delete these stamps so these all single E-STAMPs once the stamp has been read and scanned by the postal authority and you know that is handling the mail then a similar code would simply not work again it would not be authorized and it would throw out that that piece of letter or parcel if the code has already been used so it is very secure and the other additional element in terms of security also is that every stamp is unique to both the sender and the recipient so hypothetically even if this code was compromised there would be absolutely no use to anybody who is actually you know stealing this code because that particular letter or parcel can only be delivered to the recipient who for whom it was for whom this E-STAMP was generated these are some of the other use cases we've got in terms of the ride hailing so ride hailing is very important we've got a a major right you know a player in in Asia called Graf they're essentially the Uber of Asia they present several countries in the Far East and you know one of their you know in discussions with them and they basically told us that one of the major problems they have is that 2.5 to 5 percent of bookings are lost or cancelled because of mapping issues now you know what we need to understand very clearly is that most of these ride hailing apps use the major mapping service providers i.e google or earmaps and in you know in most cases obviously this information is not only is it not updated in real time so a lot of that information is not current the other problem that we have is that the maps themselves are not very accurate so when you do reverse geocoding on the on the basis of this of this map then what happens is that you know the the accuracy fails so geomain offers a gps level accuracy we do not care what is the mapping solution behind it because we are mapping not still so ride hailing as well has huge potentials on this so when your customers at you know actually buy a geomain from postal partners then obviously they would be able to achieve the benefits that come with it as a as a geomain partner post operators would also be de facto registrar so you can earn money on registrations for the geomains that are registered in your country and there are obviously additional benefits that would come in in terms of the advertising revenues that would come in as well so everything that we do we actually share with our respective partners and finally the leadership team so it's myself and my colleague Mr. Hugh Sutherland so we're the co-founders of this company we obviously have a technology team and an ever expanding business team now that's looking after the various deployments that are basically currently in play so do we need to if there any questions or do we have a question session at the end so for this one I think we should take the questions now so do anybody have any questions for geomain don't know if I can allow anybody to talk I will try I see engineer Fifi let me see if I can allow you to talk engineer I'm gonna sec go ahead engineer Fifi go ahead so Tracy we have engineer Fifi Mr. Osamaru Atbi and Mr. Chief Moyo raising their hands yeah I understand but I'm not seeing engineers Mike and I'm sure if he can unmute himself let me see if Mr. Tavi Osama can you can you speak let me see unmute yourself yes go ahead hello Tracy yes proceed thank you geomain for this presentation I have a question about physical address so does it mean that for some needs for our customers they need more than one address physical address does it mean that they have to register for more than geomain okay when you when you're talking about some some customers needing more than one address are you referring to for example you know let's say McDonald's which which would have maybe 10 or 20 branches in one city is that is that the kind of use case you're referring to is that your question or you're talking about an individual who may have more than one home perhaps and is that what you're referring to right right that is okay right in the case of businesses if you have a obviously you need to register a business geomain and business geomains do support what we call subgeomains and subgeomains work very similar to subdomains so for example we are let's say let's say McDonald's again let's take them as an example so you know 7th Avenue New York branch could have a geomain called 7.ny.mcdonalds and the one that's on 11th could have 11.ny.mcdonalds so you can create as many as you wish subgeomains and obviously every subgeomain because business geomains are handled differently so subgeomains the more that the more branches there are there are going to be obviously more revenues for the postal partners because each subgeomain would have an additional cost associated with it and the way that we have done it is that each particular subgeomain would also have their own advertising module so they can run separate advertising campaigns so again going back to the McDonald's example so 7th Avenue could be running a special promotion at a specific time and they could create that campaign by logging into their accounts and 11th Avenue could do the same as well so they could all be running different advertisements and again all those advertisements are paid and that revenue is shared with our postal you know with our registrar switch in this case would be the postal partners now coming down to the individual level the way that it works is if you have a personal geomain which is a free one then you can create as many geos or what we call geosports or so so let's say if you've got you know two houses or three houses and you've got you know your you know your family homes and what have you so you can create an unlimited number of geosports or favorite locations but the only condition is that at any given time you can only link one geosport to your geomain so if your geomain would be your Sama and let's say you are linking it to your first home then if I want to navigate to you and you're added added as my contact then in one single click I could navigate to you to your you know home number one if that's what you're linked to if you have linked it to home number two then I would be routed to home number two so I do not know where you are but in so far as if you tell me yeah come and meet me and and you know just just navigate to me using geomain then I don't have to know where you are because I will just enter Osama and I will be automatically navigated to wherever you have dropped your pen if you know what I mean thank you does that answer your question thank you yes I think yes thank you all right um there's a question that chats but I will go to chief moyo from Papu who has his hand up let me allow him to speak and you can go ahead um chief moyo and unmute yourself and ask your question proceed uh good good morning and good afternoon to the participants to this webinar and once more thank you very much UPU for facilitating this webinar and uh thank you uh head shop for giving me the floor uh like to appreciate the presentation by geomain and unfortunately I couldn't get time to sit down with my friend from geomain to speak more on the issues to do with the services they provide what I would want to uh bring out is that uh designated operators are looking at solutions that really uh help to improve customer service a popularly referred to as quality of service but most importantly they would want to uh get services that will add value to customer service initiatives having listened to the geomain presentation which is quite an innovation I would want to pause the question uh to the presenter to find out if he has looked at the UPU S58 S59 addressing standard to see how it relates to the solution that is coming up with uh in short I would want to know if his solution means we have to discard throw away all the addressing infrastructure that we have or it is complementary or it can be interfaced so that we actually consolidate on the gains that we have made over the years thank you very much I would appreciate a response to my question I thank you chief my pleasure to speak again yes uh you know I I do regret we did not have the opportunity to have a detailed discussion during our last meeting in burn but hopefully at the next meeting we will be having that opportunity uh in answering your question we are actually in the process of of getting certified by the UPU it is one it is a process that we expect to be completed over the next four to six months um and uh once we are certified by the UPU then obviously uh you know we would be compliant with the relevant standards of the UPU so that is part of the reason why we are going through this entire certification process um and uh in answering your second question uh I do not really think that we are looking at a scenario where we would expect the you know post post to essentially as quote on quote as you put it throw away all the existing thing that's happened uh however what we are definitely looking at is because we are all moving towards a digital world uh there has to be a transformation the transformation calls for changes and those changes basically in this particular case would obviously mean uh bringing in in new you know new systems and new solutions and that is the uh you know geomain in this particular you know particular case now because geomain works entirely on GPS so uh no we do not use any of the existing addressing um uh structures that are in place so so no we are not based on the postcode we are not based on a street maybe not based on a street number so we are you know totally unique and as you quite rightly put it a very innovative solution however uh we have built in the flexibility where we can link to an existing addressing system so we are talking to one post operator already now in the Middle East who have gotten an existing uh national database for uh addressing where you know they call it you know they refer to do it as a short address uh so they said look we we've already done all the hard work for this and now you know how are we gonna you know work with geomain so what we've suggested to them and what we're now working on with them is to actually see if we could uh essentially map their short short address to you know to a geomain because geomain being a universal digital identity something that could be used globally and be envisioned that you'll be able to um provide this as your address to you know when you're shopping online be it with amazon or be it with anybody else uh and and these are all efforts and discussions that obviously are ongoing at the moment so we hope to you know that they will bear fruit you know over the next few months now where you should be able to to use a geomain at most of these places uh so uh there will be a transitionary period I think uh where uh we as you know as as adoption grows and mind you this adoption will grow primarily because it would be driven by the e-commerce players by the logistics players because those are the guys who actually start making money and start benefiting from the efficiencies of geomain from the minute they start using it so they are the ones who are going to actually push and drive this so when you go and you set up an account with an e-commerce player they are going to ask you for an address anymore or they will say you know enter geomain uh because it is much more efficient for them they are not going to have any returns uh they're going to have you know as as we know in the logistics industry uh returns of poor addressing or adverse integrity as we call it is a major issue so all of these issues go out of the window with geomain so we see the you know the drivers are going to be the the even government players we are talking to one government where they are talking you know where we are in discussion with them and the whole idea is that you know how are they going to get critical mass in terms of adoption and they said well we have e-services that we offer and we put uh at the moment we are using our national identity card for people to access that and an email and password which obviously we know it's not really secure so uh they they they are now talking about coming in and using geomain as the entry point for all those e-services so everybody every citizen who uses the e-services would then start to you know they would need to acquire a geomain and get that so that's how they are talking about getting critical mass so it's going to be transitionary period which is obviously going to uh take uh you know uh you know time obviously the you know it is a new technology it's innovation you know it is an innovative technology but by all means this transitionary period will see a if there'll be a parallel crack where the existing solution would work and you know geomain would obviously uh come in and we would expect that you know people will start using geomains and in a few years time you know we may reach a scenario where the vast majority of all addresses are actually geomain addresses and you know then at that stage we would need to figure out you know what we do with your conventional addresses and how we how we deal with that so and then again that is something you know which is really going to be the upu's call so I hope that answers your question all right I believe it sounds as if it does now I'm seeing quite a few questions coming in but we do have to continue proceeding so what I'm going to do is end the queue here I'm going to ask a question that's in the chat and show all all the participants who are prospecting get a you know get equal play um so I believe you can see this question is geomain a privately controlled system or some national or higher international hierarchical structure and control you know it's an easy question to answer yes uh the way that we are structuring geomain is uh uh that you know what we would ideally at the moment we are obviously on the cloud um and it's a hybrid cloud so it's so spread across a few countries however what we you know envision is that what's going to happen is that geomain uh registries would you know should actually remain within national borders and the data for the respective citizens would remain within national borders so again this is where the post comes in that if we post to uh local postal operator our partners of geomain then this is another this is this is a responsibility of theirs to essentially house the data for theirs that for their own citizens and residents within national borders so uh you know one of the post operators we're talking to now we are already in discussion with them because they want to be able to scope the requirements that they would need at their end in order to make sure because they're very keen to have all the data for the citizens housed within national borders so we we strongly encourage that smaller countries simply do not have the infrastructure or the investment available to be able to do that we are happy to continue to house that data in the cloud but over a period of time as we you know as we all move towards a world that's more focused and centric on privacy issues I think that the data within national borders is definitely the way to go. All right thank you very much so um so here's what I'm going to do because we're going to run out of time quickly if we continue all the questions um in verbal so I'm going to end the question queue here um and if you have any further questions please put them in a queue and a pod if you don't mind colleagues who are asking questions and maybe you may can answer them while we continue with the presentation shortly so I'll go straight on to engineer Fifi who can you try again to unmute yourself as you can see everyone else is able to engineer Fifi can you please unmute yourself to ask your question engineer Fifi from Tanzania yes thank you go ahead engineer Fifi please keep the question short please thank you okay my question is if you the presenter talks explained about the east terms he said by that the east terms can be embedded into human so I want to know is there any possibility for the the process of payment how about the process of payment once the jib main and the east term has been embedded also is there any possibility for the to have full control for that system uh I'm I'm sorry your voice wasn't very clear I barely heard the second part of the question and I think the first part of the question was you're asking how would the payment be handled for east terms is that what your question was would you please repeat yes yes yes because you said that it is possible to make the east terms and the geo main so I want to know the the process of payment how about the process of payment how now the payments can be handled by the post operators okay and what was your second question sorry what was the second part of your question the second part of my question is about the full full full access of the system is it possible to have the full access of the system so that you can see all the the tracking of the item the payment process all the things which have been done in the system so the possibilities to see all the the the transactions all the the tracking of the item from one place to another okay okay all right okay so let me answer both your you know both your questions so first and foremost in terms of the payment solutions yes there you know we are building the necessary infrastructure that we will make available to the post operators a solution where they would essentially have what we call a post e-wallet and that post e-wallet can be funded by people walking into your post office and saying well you know here's ten dollars can be added to our post wallet and they would be able to use that to purchase stamps and by extension if the post office wants to then add on external solutions where they could use that same e-wallet at local stores you know to buy to buy drinks to buy coffee to buy whatever then that's again all stuff that can be very easily customized so our solution is built it's you know it's an open solution which will be built to accommodate all these kind of use cases moving forward so it is it doesn't have an e-wallet built in in short so i hope that that answers that question and and and the way the e-wallet is typically funded would be by people as i said walking into post and handing over cash or paying by any other method that is acceptable to you guys right in answering your second question you have to understand that when you actually become a a geomain partner and a you know the e-stamp one of the key benefits of the e-stamp is that for the first time ever a post would be able to know their customers at the moment people can come in and buy a stamp and they would walk away and you wouldn't know what's happening with that stamp you wouldn't know who's purchased a stamp you wouldn't know what's going to be done with that stamp so when you actually become a geomain partner then you have full visibility even more extensive than what couriers have today in terms of the tracking capability so you yes you know if you remember the e-stamp that i showed you on the slide you know every e-stamp would have a unique number not just you but even the center and the recipient would both be able to track that that unique e-stamp and and the parcel or letter on which that e-stamp is pasted so you'd be able to know exactly where it is you would even be able to you know once once the post scans it and it's on the way then the recipient can receive a notification saying look this is this letter is now on its way to you so I guess I mean all kind of wonderful things which are real innovations which have not been available till date definitely with post and even some of them are not even available with courier today they're all in the pipeline and they're all going to be part of the e-stamp solution which we are hoping to launch with dot post. Thank you very much Sol. I'm not sure if you're aware there are several questions in the Q&A pod Sol that require an answer and I'm gonna ask if you can answer those questions in the Q&A pod. Sometimes you may have answered already including from engineer Phi Phi but there are a couple others in the pod. Next on my list is Ibrahim and Lereco. Those are the two I'm going to take now and then we have to end the verbal Q&A but everything else please post in the Q&A pod so that GeoMain can answer the questions in writing thereafter. So Ibrahim you could unmute yourself Ibrahim if you can. Hello good morning or good afternoon over there. My name is Ibrahim and I'm representing Australian Post and Services in Sierra Leone. Can you hear me? Yes we can. Yes I've already posed my question. Yeah my question is just about the transition framework I mean frame time period. So the question is this what is the transition time frame for GeoMain to take over the existing one and that is the postal addressing system so once plus or minus the time frame is this like a two-year period or a one-year period or more than that? Okay that's an interesting question but one that I'm afraid I cannot answer very accurately because it really depends on how quickly adoption happens by the postal operators. So for GeoMain to work in perfect efficiency if I put it that way what we would really need is we would need mass adoption of GeoMain by the postal networks so they can handle all the packages and parcels in the most efficient way and what I think is going to happen is obviously as I mentioned earlier you will have a lot of this adoption will be driven by the private sector where they and even the government sectors where they would actually require people to start using GeoMain. So as that happens it's definitely going to be something that's going to be in tandem but if I were to take a guess I would say that considering the fact that you know there are almost 200 countries we are looking at adoption happening with various speeds in each of them I think that by the time we would be looking at an entire GeoMain you know almost entirely in GeoMain ecosystem you know it could be four to five years before we actually see the and you know we are able to achieve the the full efficiencies and the economies of scale that GeoMain would bring because it's not going to work if you are going to have fragmented initiatives and only some countries working and some countries not working so this is exactly where again the UPU comes in in their role and almost the dot post that in so far as you know soon as we are able to complete the certification process we will be working very aggressively with them to GeoMain enable as many postal partners as we can and as quickly as we can so that all these benefits would start working and the you know decline that we are seeing in postal volumes and postal revenues can then be arrested and hopefully reversed because as I said there are tremendous opportunities for additional revenue schemes and and innovations that come with GeoMain right thank you very much thank you very much yes thank you and the final real question from Leraco I'm going to allow you to speak proceed Leraco you need to unmute yourself if you're if you're speaking if not I'll have to move on all right so I think Leraco may have moved on Leraco if you are listening and you can't unmute please post your question in the Q&A pod so as a reminder to all you can continue posting questions to GeoMain in the Q&A pod and I'm looking at Sol and I'm hoping that he will be willing to to answer those questions in the pod thereafter and I'd be delighted to do so thank you and if you stick around to the end you may get some more the end as well all right so I just move on with the remainder of the presentation and thank you very much Sol for an extremely enlightening and as you can see very interesting and engaging session with our colleague from the African Post it seems to be quite of interest in what you're doing it's my pleasure and we look forward to working with African Postal Union to enable post in Africa as quickly as we possibly can and as quickly as they possibly can because it's it works in tandem as I said excellent and of course you can contact Sol for us at dot post feel free to reach out to us we'll give you our contact information at the end of this presentation yes excellent thank you Tracy no problem so I'm going to go ahead and reshare my screen and return to the presentation that I was working on here we go I think you're back so this is where we are on Sol's image so I'll just move on from here thank you very much Sol and to your main once again and Hugh if you're listening so I had mentioned previously about our cyber trust cyber security and cyber trust and trust framework and as you can see in this I'm coming back to my framework to show you where we sit the just above the governance and compliance area the security infrastructure explain what we offer at the dot post group in terms of our security infrastructure so as you may be aware we are dealing with a series of aspects of self-security within the dot post team on the left top left you see domain validation and our domain management policy really ensures that those who own a dot post domain or register a dot post domain are in fact the people who actually apply for one we have a very stringent domain validation policy and only those who are thoroughly vetted and you know there's a due diligence that's undertaken only those people can get dot post domains that is very different all right I think as someone who I may sound can you just mute the person who might be speaking there appreciate that so if you can mute your mics for those who are not speaking appreciate it so yeah so what I was saying is that the domain validation approach that we take ensures that anybody who registers a dot post domain is the person who we say they are so unlike other many other top level domains where anybody can register and sort of impersonates another entity that cannot happen here with a dot post a dot post top level domain and all of our domains are verified by the UPU even up to our legal department and have to respect the 30-day notification period where it is put out for public notification for anybody to object or you know to indicate there's a conflict and some sort of trademark etc we have a series of cybersecurity policies that are available on our website that these security side security policies allow us to ensure that your environment is extremely secure nothing is 100% secure as I always say but we do our extreme best to ensure that we get as close to that as humanly possible more so than any other top level domain is currently doing so we have a series of policies which you must follow once you have a dot post domain and that we are actually monitoring that compliance that I'll get into shortly the UPU has implemented an anti DNS abuse system where the dot post top level domain is in fact one of the very few domains globally was never experienced a DNS abuse incident and again nothing is 100% certain but the measures we take to ensure who gets a dot post domain is in fact verified and vetted and checked etc gives us very very good reason to believe that we can continue this going forward so anybody who sees a dot post domain if you have an email address that ends in dot post if you have a website ends in dot post you can rest assured that it is a safe secure and the person who is or the company who is utilizing that domain is in fact the company who says they are who they are I mentioned before there'll be a process rolling out a cyber incident response team for the postal sector and the dot post and that is currently underway in conjunction with our the organization which we report to the postal technology center and I'm hopeful that you will see the evidence of that very shortly and that suit being rolled out so that you can register potentially reciproactive incidents regarding the DNS at the postal sector and we can also inform you as well as so what is happening within the internet space and the global internet space and a DNS and you can take necessary precautions accordingly skills development we are working with our various partners one of them the Global Cyber Alliance several others we are currently working with including potentially the ITU to ensure that you can get the best quality self-paced learning and skills development within our dot post learning environment we have lots of webinars as you were seeing today we also will be offering self-paced learning modules for you to to utilize as I indicated previously I'll show you that shortly in our cyber trap dot post very brief demo and as before I mentioned our domain compliance monitoring where we provide real-time monitoring and support of your domain whether it's in compliance with our cybersecurity policies that we have currently implemented at the UPU these policies as on this slide focus heavily on the various standards that ensure security both at the server level in terms of your environment whether you're on-premise or not on-premise on some sort of hybrid environment as well with regards to your email to try and show that your email running on the dot post environment will in fact be high secure once you follow the standards and your compliance with our standards that we have indicated thereafter as I mentioned we did launch cyber trap dot post our domain compliance monitoring too on May 11th 2022 just this year a few months ago and for all dot post group members who have access to this so to have access to this you must be a dot post group member and dot post group members provide a focal point contact information to us and they're the ones who are able to to see and to get notifications about their dot post domains so I will explain how that works shortly by showing your short demo but in summary the cyber trap dot post compliance tool is a fully automated web based tool providing real-time monitoring of dot post domains with regards to technical compliance to our approved cyber security policies including DNSSEC secure email authentication and secure online transactions this tool supports access per country at focal points as I said receive email in some case of non-conformity events within the cyber trap dot post platform as well we have our learning platform that we have deployed very recently and the intention is to ensure we have a self-paced learning available to all dot post group members who are able to access this platform and we have initiated one bootcamp on DMARC in partnership with our global cyber alliance that's currently available on our dot post learning platform as I mentioned working with several other partners including the ITU to deploy several others going forward over the next 12 to 18 months this learning platform can be accessed via cyber trap dot post and we offer a range of we're going to be offering a range of topics in learning awareness and capacity building focused on cyber hygiene, sub-security and of course dot post tools and solutions I just just give you a 90-second demo there's no audio so there'll be no audio except my voice show your quick demo also what this looks like so this is our brief demo of the cyber trap tool and as you can see you go to cyber trap dot post if you are dot post group member you will be able to log into this tool once your dot post group member have credentials and on this tool you can see your domain and your and the level of compliance that overall compliance that your domain has to do that you take a look at the status whether it's what is okay and the date at which that test was run that date obviously is run every morning and UTC time and but you could also run that test on your own as I'll show you shortly you can expand that each domain and see what the test is testing and the status of each test whether it's okay or not okay and we also provide some help to show you essentially what could be possibly wrong with that that particular test and why it is that you are receiving an uncomplying report you can receive alerts by simply toggling how you get those alerts whether it be exception based or regularly we also mentioned how the dot post living platform as I said you can log into this and get access to self-paced material currently we have a demo bootcamp available to you dot post group members and we have a series of other links to get to other dot post environments so that was a 90 second demo of cyber trap dot post and there's again dot post group members have access to this contact us as to how to join a dot post group and to obtain access to this tool I did mention previously that we are one of the very few domains in the world who have never had a DNS abuse incident because I mentioned of our approach to how we register and deal with domain registration as a process so we've had zero domains having abused on a dot post to date DNS abuse as you may be aware is becoming an even more critical issue especially for posts who are operating in environments where they receive increasing amounts of emails coming in through spam and other types of channels and your employees very often are liable to open an email that may look confusingly similar to this domain to something that is you know like a normal or regular domain that is obviously one major avenue where you get malware and potentially ransomware attacks coming in into your organization and without getting into the details of the prevalence of ransomware it is on the rise and it is as you may be aware as post operators it can be extremely expensive on all levels both in terms of actual cost as well as in terms of cost of your your business and cost of your cost to your customers cost to your overall employees in terms of data being stolen and placed online on a dark web for sale and so on it's a really really huge problem that's that's growing every day and many folks don't realize that the first avenue in is through a DNS abuse attack so we are doing our very best to prevent that from happening I mentioned before we have our cyber security our cyber incident response team that we're establishing and we'll keep you informed as to how well that is going and exactly what methods you can use to report incidents as well as we can report back to you we intend to work with our registrars and registrars when we further open up the dot post name space to other wider poster sector players and we will be able to utilize our knowledge bases accordingly to keep you informed as to practically inform us the incidents that are happening in the internet space so that you can take measures accordingly at this point I will want to hand over now to my colleague Mesa Sabra to basically go through with you how you can register a dot post domain and the process that's currently entailed Mesa yes Tracy thank you do you hear me yes we can hear you okay thank you very much my name is Mesa Sabra I am the dot post projects assistant and I'm very happy to give you a quick overview about the dot post domain registration process Tracy could you please go to the next slide thank you so here we see we see a question who is using dot post so as we are talking today about innovation and digital transformation let me remind you that dot post is designed to be a space of digital transformation and innovation and our dot post members are doing great job and making a great use of their dot post domains by inter to interconnect their services with the global postal community and also to open up the possibility to the digital services and some interesting business models so if you visit the slide that is indicated on this slide the site sorry the link which is indicated on this slide you will see who is using dot post and how they are using it you will find some very successful business models that you might be interesting to learn from or to use for your future business models next slide please Tracy one very important question is why you should register your dot post domains now so something very important that you should always consider it when you build your your online business is the trust and security and the visibility of your business so you can trust a dot post domain because the upu ensures that every owner of the post domain is verified and comply with the standard security of the dot post domains so also as you know dot post is 100 percent secure has it's 100 percent secured by the dns and is the most secure top level domain for the postal community on the internet and another important point for why you should register a dot post domain is for your visibility so the dot post domain provides a clear and unmistakable brand for your postal services it raises the profile of your organization extents it beyond the national frontiers and therefore it can it can provide a greater opportunity for growth regarding the registration steps maybe we can move directly to the next slide Tracy yes so maybe some of you are that are with us today online are already dot post members and they know how to register their domains but maybe others they they ask how can we we we register a dot post domain what are the steps to to to be followed before we go to the process okay okay no problem we can go to the process directly yes so i wanted to tell you that the registration process is really very easy and simple so first of all what you want to do is to join the dot post group and be a member of this community when you are a member of the dot post group you can immediately submit your request to the dot post secretariat the dot post secretariat will verify quickly if you are eligible to apply to to get a domain or not and to provide you with some information how to submit your request formally so usually to submit your request you have to create a community ID which is a part of the authentication process we can we can facilitate the process by giving you the community ID credentials or we can walk you through how to get your community ID so the next step will be that once your request is submitted formally at apply.info dot post we will again go through an internal verification so here there is a very important point that i want to to indicate you can choose to register a standard name such as any commercial name or a premium name so we have two different types of domains premium names or standard names premium names are either code of your country or your country name standard name as i said it's whatever commercial name that you would like to register so if you submit a request for premium name there's one mandatory requirement that we need from you is the authorization of your government you should provide us with an authorization from your government the international bureau dot post unit is responsible to send you the form to be filled in and signed by your government and returned to us so once this this is done we can immediately go through the technical setup of your domain so very easy and simple just one requirement needed however for the standard name it's also one requirement needed it's not your government authorization but to get us an IPR document which is intellectual property rights or any trademark certificate again we go through internal verification it shouldn't take long time and then we provide you with the first steps to be followed please bear in mind that for standard names we have to go through a 30 day of public comment period to see that there's no no no no no same names are competing with your request so we have to go through this mandatory rule to public your name for 30 day period of time and when this period is closed we can go immediately with the technical setup and one very important information that if you are a dot post member you can your domain registration is free because it's offset against your dot post contribution so that is it in short this is how the registration process works I would be very happy to to answer any questions you may have you could reach out to me by email if you would like to that I will use mostly and step by step through the process but as I said the process is not a complicated thing it can be done easily and quickly so that's it from my side regarding the dot post domain registrations if you have here on this slide we see some important links you may be interested in by looking at so for you could visit the links provided on this slide to see some information on the validation of your organization and to request your domain name so you should go register dot post to find more information about what I explained in short so now if there is no questions I will hand over to Tracy and once again you could reach out to me anytime by email thank you very much miss um there are actually two questions in a Q&A pod based on the second one I think you can take and you can probably um put an answer to maybe write an answer in the pod to that um what is necessary to be part of the dot post community um the first question I will probably try and answer um how concretely concretely you can protect your customer from hijacking and um DDoS um I think as I said before nothing is 100% effective and besides the fact that as I said the top level domain is signed at the root of the NSSEC and that we institute a series of policies essentially the owners is upon the the user the the customer the business to implement a series of protections on their end which we can help advise you on so one of the things we can do um we can't implement BGP and all the necessary aspects at your end because that's that's really on your side of the of the equation but we can provide advice and guidance to you um regarding how you may want to protect your particular internet presence at the at your level um at the top level domain level we are limited to what we can do besides doing as much as we can um to show that we are um ourselves protected and eliminate spoofing as much as possible um internet DNS poisoning and prevent potential hijacking but someone like DDoS as you know is not something that a top level domain itself can prevent um that's something that you have to do at your end to ensure you are protecting yourself we believe that the compliance of our policies will assist you with regards to that and by providing you with those policies you should be able to go some of the way in preventing that from happening in your organization however you do need to take the necessary steps to prevent that from happening DDoS attacks are really it's something that no one has solved no one can prevent them I mean it can happen to you but you can take steps to reduce the risk of it happening to you as much as possible again that's very much at your end of the of the equation um and there are several as you know several other players out there like Cloudflare and and Dine and so on who can assist you with those as well in the market um we can probably look at potential solutions for you at your end of the equation um if you were to compare for example dot post with a a country coat top level domain many of the top country coat top level domains may not even be signed at the root and furthermore if they offer you second level domains they may not be signed at the second level so we just want to make sure you understand how that works so I'm so I hope that fairly well answers the question and as I said we can you know contact us um if you're a dot post remember you can reach out to us so we can provide that again as an assistance to you all right so I've answered that question live so I'm going to move on now and explain our other level of of governance and compliance that we talked about and I talk about that at the basically at the bottom of that stack how do we ensure governance and compliance within a dot post group well we have a steering committee that was established um at the very outset of the of this top level domain um being delegated to the the universal postal union and this steering committee which rotates through election every four years is currently made up of a of a very diverse and highly experienced group of professionals who are essentially advising on how the dot post group shall function and the the steps we shall take to ensure that there's good governance and even strict security compliance with the the um the principles of the dot post stop level domain and our overall framework so as you can see the chair of the dot post group is Massimiliano Aschi he's from Italy post-Italian he chairs and he's actually a senior cybersecurity expert who is uh chairing the dot post group our vice chair Usama Uttabi um you actually heard Usama earlier today asking a question um he's a vice chair from the post Tunisian and he's director of digital transformation so at the very leadership of the dot post group you have two senior professionals in the postal sector who are guiding and assisting us with our work and ensuring that we are keeping to the highest standards of security trust and overall compliance also in the dot post group steering committee um Rufan from China Post Dr Thomas Gaga from Nigeria Postal Service Helena Mati from Namibia Post Isunti from Turkish Post and Janus Gold Oluda from the US Postal Service so quite a diverse group of of individuals who are on our steering committee and providing us with that guidance and support as we implement our work plan and our dot post overall strategy including our cybersecurity agenda in terms of our current membership status we currently have 37 member countries from all over the world um Latin America and the Caribbean the African region um from Europe from the Americas um from Asia quite a quite a large spread of of members and we are currently have two private sector associate members um you heard from Jiumen and we currently have Stan Stark who is graduating from our our group up shortly so we'd just like to recognize our members and thank them some of who are actually present today and um we do hope that we want to see some of you who are not currently members joining us going forward so as I wrap up invite you to contact us our uh casual email address is secretariat at info.post and you can also learn more about what we do and what we offer at ATTPS colon backslash backslash info.post and at ATTPS registered our post so with that I will have come to the end of my um slide deck and I'm going to pause to see if there are any further questions um for you and um for me sorry and also to ask if you are um I'm looking at the chat here to see some question who signs on behalf of government I'm not sure what's the that may be from Mesa Mesa I'm there a couple of questions there maybe that you could look at in the chat who signed on behalf of the government and I'll give you an examples what is the example for the two domain names I'm not sure Jim what you're asking there which which two domains you're referring to um not sure if you mean for two of the two maybe you can type in the chat um think Tracy if I may I think Mr. Jim is referring to the two types of domain names the standard and the premium yes and he's asking actually in the Q&A um yes basically asking if these are available yes so you can check the Q&A Mesa maybe you can answer in the Q&A there okay you have the presentation will be shared as well the video this video will actually be recorded will be uploaded to our youtube channel and you can access it there as well Mofat is asking to share the registration process and we will certainly do that um so no problem so we'll share everything that we have shared today with you um thank you for those questions and that feedback um is there anything else in the Q&A part let's have a look um so we've answered nine questions um I think we're okay now are there any further questions um let's confirm that our colleagues from GeoMain are still here yes they're still here yes I am and we've answered the questions in the board all right if anybody has further questions they're welcome to email me on solatgeomain.com all right sir lyrical you are you still have your hand up I'm not sure if you are hearing us but if you are you can go ahead and try and ask your question now if not you can type it in the chat this is the question I think pending from before um Chief Moyo is this an old hand or a new hand I'm asking uh it's a new hand it's a new hand uh Tracy proceed yes go ahead okay uh thank you very much uh Tracy I just want to make my closing remarks with regards to the presentation by uh GeoMain I would want to urge GeoMain to continue their discussions with the post from uh Miku East um I I would want to see a a solution which I would think is suitable for for for countries like Africa a solution that links uh uh GPS to the physical address why um the post in Africa plays a bigger role than just e-commerce deliveries uh addresses in in Africa uh help also to link the emergency services with the people emergency services like the fire uh fighters like your ambulance services and also the housing and planning departments also rely on the physical address and it will be very good if we can have a hybrid solution which also enables the digital site to interact effectively with the physical site so that there is no loss of relevance you know in Africa we also encounter uh disasters and people have to be rescued if they are cyclones and that calls for uh knowledge of the physical location of a place and uh if it's complemented by the GPS uh addressing then uh that will be handy then I would want to end by also restating that as the pan-African poster union we look forward to discussions with GeoMain so that we can also have our inputs as they uh shape and package their solution for our members and uh I hope to get in touch uh with my friend offline and uh then I would want to end by thanking uh you Tracy and your team for the dot post presentations and for you I can call you anytime so even if I don't have issues now I can raise them with you any other time on any other platform thank you very much I see the top at you sorry I was muted maybe chief thank you very much um I'd appreciate if you can also indicate what you indicate to me a plug for dot post um perhaps you could encourage your your member colleagues from the African posts to reach out to us and let me let me turn them back over to you to you know you say it eloquently so let me allow you to say it okay uh thank you very much let me do some bit of marketing for you uh but in fact it's not really marketing I have been working very closely with uh uh dot post and I was very instrumental in the ZIM post Zimbabwe mall uh dot post project from its initial stage to its launch and uh I was fortunate to uh take the dot post to one of our uh uh trade shows where we were showcasing it and uh a hacker came through and said guys bring let me test how secure your system is after five ten minutes you came back and said yeah guys this thing is very secure it cannot be we cannot hack into it and to me that is a very big plus especially if you are looking at getting into the e-commerce uh online uh shopping uh business where security of information uh of customers as well as financial information of the organization are concerned and uh the dot post provides that kind of solution and most importantly it's a it's a user driven organization which speaks specifically to the needs of the postal fraternity it helps uh postal entities especially those that are financially challenged to have their own systems developed from scratch it helps us to pull our resources together so that uh the membership fees can take care of all the uh associated costs which could ordinarily uh come to a one country or one organization so we should take advantage of this and I'm looking forward to having more members uh from Africa and beyond joining so that we can help even lower the cost of uh membership hopefully and uh that way as a postal fraternity as a postal family as a postal community we can steer this uh in the direction we want in response to uh changes technological changes around us thank you very much I I think I've I've done justice to the few minutes you have given me I see the floor back to you Tracy thank you very much a chief more you'll hire thank you very much for your excellent um testimony for us and we really do appreciate it and you're a friend of dot post and we certainly um want to encourage everyone to listen to the words of the chief um the SGF of Papu um and his experiences with Zimbabwe and to to ensure that we we're not just here doing slides and talking to you about stuff we actually are doing what we say we are doing we're doing it we're doing it well we're trying to improve and do even more we're here to serve you and we certainly want to ensure that you on this journey uh you know move through that journey safely and securely and we that's all we're trying to do we're trying to help you on this journey um along with our partners like um GOMA and other even other posts who are working with us like for example Zimbabwe and others we do want to ensure that once we um are seeing what we're seeing we can also help you just by mentioning what the best practice center of excellence and so on so we think there should not be people just doing things in silos let's work together as the chief said it's sort of a shared burden it's a shared journey and by sharing the the the work and the labor across all of the the african continent and the region we believe that we can work together and make african post a leading postal sector in the world by doing this digital journey properly safely and securely and by taking the you know the next step forward and demonstrating to the rest of the world how this can be done how you can be you know profitable going forward in the next phase of this digital economy that is right here and facing us so that I like to I don't think there are any further questions let me see the records this hand is still up so I'm assuming that um is no longer listening or not here uh or can't unmute but if not you could again put it in the chat so we try and answer it separately um a comment in the chat you have trusted our greedy technologies at dot posing and offering especially insecurity issues but I'm much to see what our posts cover the link of a facility that we can facilitate payment solutions to member countries that are on dot post the payment solution that is globally accepted to facilitate instant payment of people who are enjoying the services offered through post office especially online purchase this is mr kase kase kase from Tanzania post we thank you for your comments and we certainly would like to can you exploring these issues with you as I mentioned um just going back to my slide on the shared services platform I'm just quickly go back just to show you what we are trying to do so this area here in this light blue are what we're working on together and we do ensure want to ensure that we will be deploying these types of shared services including what you're asking for uh whether with our partners or whether that could within the upu infrastructure upu portfolio that services can be offered um that can meet your needs so rest assured that is all being discussed and worked on um just allow us to to move through this process and to get it done so we do it well and and securely and um I'm very certain that within the next 12 months we'll be able to come back to you and speak more specifically about not just having it done but having use cases to demonstrate the other posts that we have done what we said we're going to do so I'm really really confident that will happen in the next 12 months so thank you very much and um if there are no further questions or comments in the chat I'm not seeing any I will hand back to abadu to give us some closing statements abadu okay thank you tressy thank you very much I don't have anything more to say than to encourage our members to register to post a domain because currently they saw the figure the figure are showing that only 19 african countries are registered so it will go to by the end of 2023 to double or maybe to have uh more uh registered countries indeed we'll continue this uh kind of uh webinars either on country request or uh tressy and sabra request we are available for for for for that and um I would like I would like to thank our members uh who participate uh to this webinar 25 countries three rest of the unions uh I would like especially to thank uh tressy sabra for your time uh I wish you to all a very nice day hoping that uh we will have very soon another uh edition of uh this webinar series thank you very much thank you all and thank you enjoy the rest of your day bye bye bye bye everyone thanks for your time I think we can stop the recording now tech team thank you very much