[AfrICANN-discuss] Kenya bids to host top IT conference

[Dr Paulos Nyirenda]

All,

Bravo Kenya for submitting an ICANN meeting bid and openly announcing 
it. However, I think some competition should be encouraged, details 
of the bids should be made public at some point after submission and 
lobying encouraged so that we can see a transparent process leading 
to the winner. I hope the other countries will also openly reveal 
when they have submitted their bids.

I expect that ICANN does have a clear process for choosing the 
winner, can someone please let us know how the final decision is 
made. Is it by a Board vote or is there a more objective scoring 
process?

Regards,

Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
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http://www.registrar.mw


On 1 Sep 2007 at 11:51, rafik dammak wrote:

> 
> Hi Alice,
> 
> Tunisia prevously hosted ICANN meeting in 2003 I think.
> I think that Kenya can host ICANN meeting as country from the east 
> part of Africa .
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rafik
> 
> On 9/1/07, alice <alice at apc.org> wrote: 
>     Hi rafik and all
>     
>     I understand that Egypt, Senegal and Uganda are also bidding. Perhaps
>     Anne Rachel could give us more information. Egypt, South Africa and
>     Ghana have previously hosted ICANN meetings.
>     
>     As a member of the KENIC board, I wish to request support from the 
>     ICANN
>     African community to support Kenya's bid to host the ICANN meeting in
>     November 2008.
>     
>     regards
>     
>     alice munyua
>     
>     >
>     > Hi everybody,
>     >
>     > there are other African countries candidates to host the ICANN 
>     meeting?
>     >
>     > Regards
>     >
>     > On 9/1/07, *Anne-Rachel Inné* < annerachel at gmail.com
>     > <mailto:annerachel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > * <<
>     > 
>     <http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143973832> *
>     >
>     > The East African Standard | Online Edition
>     > <http://www.eastandard.net/>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > *Saturday September 1, 2007 *
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > * Kenya bids to host top IT conference *
>     >-----------------------------------------------------------------
>     -------
>     >
>     > *By Alari Alare*
>     >
>     > Kenya has submitted a bid to host the African round of the
>     > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann)
>     > meeting set for November next year.
>     >
>     > The bid was submitted by the board of the Kenya Information 
>     Centre
>     > (Kenic) on behalf of the private sector and the Government.
>     >
>     > Speaking during Kenic's annual general meeting on Friday, 
>     chairman
>     > Anthony Mugambi, disclosed that a team comprising Government,
>     > private sector and the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) will be
>     > constituted to lobby for the bid.
>     >
>     > As a trustee for the dot. ke country-code-top-level-domain, 
>     Kenic
>     > oversees the Kenyan Domain Name space by managing and
>     > administering the dot .ke in conformity with global Internet 
>     policies.
>     >
>     > Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 
>     on
>     > the other hand is responsible for managing and coordinating the
>     > global Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure each address is unique
>     > and that users of the Internet could find valid addresses. It 
>     does
>     > this by overseeing the distribution of unique IP (Internet
>     > Protocol) addresses and domain names.
>     >
>     > "In an effort to expose Kenya's vibrant ICT community to the 
>     rest
>     > of the world, the
>     >
>     > Kenic Board has submitted a bid to host the African round of the
>     > Icann meeting in November next year in Nairobi, Kenya", said 
>     Mugambi.
>     >
>     > "We are confident of winning the bid to host the event and we
>     > shall be seeking your support in hosting the event," said 
>     Mugambi.
>     >
>     > During the meeting, a new board led by Mugambi was named to 
>     steer
>     > the Centre's activities.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > << Back
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