[AfrICANN-discuss] .Africa project communique (Task force)

[Nii Narku Quaynor]

Congratulations to AU!

saying something you want to do in name space. Good for Africa

.....who owns the string .africa in trust for the region? ok, its obvious for our situation if you believe it should be in African public interest trust

Therefore let AUC go through its publicly stated open process devoid of any particular company or prejudgements. 

For your information DCA was the third to present;-) the first was in the first round of gTLD in 2002. The second was www.dotafrica.org long before DCA. 

good jewelry makes little noise

nii

On Nov 14, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Badru Ntege (NFT) wrote:

> Nebiyu and All
>  
> I do believe after years of our own internal self orchestrated divisions as a people in Africa from all parts of the continent we drafted our own marginalization into becoming what is known today as the third world.
>  
> As a continent time has run out and we now need to put our differences aside and look to what we believe is good for Africa.  As longer as we proface to do it for the continent lets sit on the same table.  Since this committee has been set up I would suggest that all different parties should come to the foe and allow us to create something for the continent which has no personal or individual agenda’s.
>  
> My suggestion is DCA should find a way of joining this committee so we have one initiative from Africa to be presented to the general community.  If I’m not mistaken the ICANN rules expect an initiative to have full support from the community.    We all at one time or another will initiate a process that at one time or another we find prudent to share with a wider community for the good of the common good.  It might be fact that DCA was the first to present a proposal for .Africa and if so the community will and should appreciate their insight.   However the time has come for us to back an initiative from the AU since as a continent we gave that body some level of mandate to look into and foster cross border initiatives for the African continent.
>  
> Lets move ahead as one.  And if it means to add someone from DCA on this task force let it be done.  But lets stop this African self sabotage.  We owe it to our future generations.
>  
> Sorry for the long ranting but I hope somewhere between the lines you get my point J
>  
> Regards
>  
> Badru
>  
>  
>  
> From: africann-bounces at afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Nebster
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 12:37 AM
> To: africann at afrinic.net
> Cc: <africann at afrinic.net>
> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] .Africa project communique (Task force)
>  
> "Please be advised that there is  a proposal by DotConnectAfrica to apply for the .africa gTLD.   The statement by Mr. Brian to support another initiative does not take away that DCA is a full participant in this process.
> Thank you,
> Nebiyu"
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Nov 12, 2010, at 2:33 AM, "Manager" <antahigiye at tznic.or.tz> wrote:
> 
> Apologies for cross posting.
> 
> 
> Eng. Ntahigiye Abibu
> Manager, tzNIC
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> <Communique_on_DotAfrica_08Nov2010_v2.pdf>
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