ICTs can also boost growth in other sectors and promote SMME development by reducing costs and geographic barriers while increasing efficiencies and creating new opportunities. The development of central registers of skills and employment opportunities can further facilitate employment. Digital literacy programmes are likely to increase the employability of individuals across South Africa.

The Primary Objective:

The Primary Objective for the Registrar and Reseller Training is to promote and create awareness of .ZA domain name and to grow the namespace:

Promote: Reaching out to SMMEs, previously disadvantaged groups from townships and rural areas and encouraging businesses and individuals to participate in the industry by removing the barriers to entry and red tapes through Registrar and Reseller training.

Awareness: Raising awareness of .ZA, through the Registrar and Reseller Trainings, informing SMMEs of opportunities available under .ZA namespace; opening the industry to individuals who would not have previously had access to mentioned information, nor support to leverage from as the pursue opportunities under the .ZA umbrella.

Grow: Ultimately achieving growth of the .ZA Domain name through the increased number of Black ISPs/Registrars in a form of domain registrations because each province will eventually have a substantial number of ISPs/Registrars to cater to it.

Selection Criteria

The Registrar and Reseller Training Programme is targeted at “target groups” derived from guidelines stipulated by the National ICT Policy White Paper 2016, which encourages more engagement and development to rural areas and townships’:

• Women
• Youth
• Persons with disabilities
• SMMEs
• Individuals

The National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper 2016 identified women, youth and persons with disabilities as the “targeted groups” who require support, skills and resources in the advancement of the ICT in the country.

Registrar Reseller is the SMME development initiatives in light of Ministerial Directive, 14 registrar reseller programs (Workshops, Digital Manual, Audio Training).

The purpose of the Registrar/Reseller training is to potentially grow the .ZA through SMMEs’ participation in Reseller and Registrar space thereby reaching out to SMMEs, previously disadvantaged groups from townships and rural areas and encouraging businesses and individuals to participate in the .ZA domain business. Another objective of this training is to open the industry to individuals who would not have previously had access to resell the .ZA.

Registrar Reseller Training virtual training Webinar offered by ZADNA.

Registrar Reseller Training is an initiative by ZADNA aiming to empower Women, Youth, Persons with disabilities, SMMEs and Individuals on how to become a domain Registrar or Reseller.

This training is offered free of charge. You will learn about the .ZA domain name industry and how to become a .ZA Domain Reseller or Registrar

The aim of this Registrar and Reseller Training is to grow the .ZA namespace thereby informing SMMEs of opportunities available under .ZA namespace; opening the industry to individuals who would not have previously had access to mentioned information, nor support to leverage from as they pursue opportunities under the .ZA

You can register for Reseller training session on any of the following dates:

• Requirements to join the training session
• Electronic device that has access to internet browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, etc.)
• At least 1 gigabyte of data to access the training contents
• Accessible internet network connection
• Willingness to complete the training online

Note: The training sessions will be rendered via ZOOM. Participants are urged to download the Zoom application, alternatively they can access this via a web interface. Session ID and password will only be shared with participants that registered for the sessions via their registered email address prior to commencement of the webinar. All participants will be required to use their own electronic devices to join the webinar.

We want to broaden participation in the domain name registration and ISP market to be in-line with the demographic composition of the country. We therefore are prepared to train and equip as many historical disadvantaged SMMEs and Entrepreneurs as possible in order to award equal opportunities within this field.