[AfrICANN-discuss] Upcoming Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Events in the Middle East and Africa

[Nigel Roberts]

No criticism intended!

Perhaps you can feed back the need for early planning to the relevant 
people inside ICANN?

Kind regards


On 02/08/2013 10:50 AM, Glen de Saint Géry wrote:
> Nigel,
>
> I do understand the need for this sort of information in advance for planning purposes, but it was published on the ICANN website, yesterday, 7 February 2013 and the earliest I could distribute was this morning, CET.
>
> Thank you for your interest.
> Kind regards,
>
> Glen
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Nigel Roberts [mailto:nigel at channelisles.net]
> Envoyé : vendredi 8 février 2013 10:53
> À : africann at afrinic.net; Glen de Saint Géry
> Objet : Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Upcoming Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Events in the Middle East and Africa
>
> Glen:
>
> This information is very useful to those of us working in EMEA. A small plea, however, in that it would be really helpful to know of these sorts of events a bit more in advance -- I've already got commitments that clash with these, for example.
>
> Just for the future, and thanks for keeping us all informed.
>
>
> On 02/08/2013 09:06 AM, Glen de Saint Géry wrote:
>> https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07feb13-en.ht
>> m
>>
>>
>>    Upcoming Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Events in the Middle
>>    East and Africa
>>
>> 7 February 2013
>>
>> ICANN will participate with the regional IG community in two important
>> events in March 2013. These events will be attended by regional
>> leaders from government, the private sector and civil society.
>>
>> The first event, as part of the Arab IGF initiative, will be in Dubai,
>> UAE from 3-5 March. The second event, as part of the African Strategic
>> Engagement initiative, will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 6-8 March.
>> ICANN invites you to join regional leaders and Internet Governance
>> experts from all over the world at these two events.
>>
>> The Arab Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance meeting will be held at
>> the Radisson Royal Hotel in Dubai on 3-5 March 2013. The meeting is
>> hosted by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of UAE as part of the Arab
>> IGF Open Consultations and in partnership with ICANN and RIPE NCC, the
>> Regional Internet Registry for Europe and the Middle East.
>>
>> Please see this link for on-line registration:
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpucVl1MjM1OUVRL
>> XFvQXZocWV0UVE6MA#gid=0
>>
>> The African Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance meeting will be held
>> at the UNECA Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 6-8 March
>> 2013 and is organized in partnership with African IGF, AfriNIC, AFTLD,
>> ISOC Africa, and the ATU.
>>
>> These open public meetings are aimed at fostering engagement among
>> Internet organizations and all stakeholder groups in the Arab and the
>> African world. They offer the opportunity to share best practices of
>> successful multi-stakeholder models and discuss means to enhance
>> effective participation in global Internet Governance fora.
>>
>>    * Arab Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Meeting Proposed Agenda
>>      <http://meetings.icann.org/meetings/armig-mar12/proposed-agenda-07feb13-en.pdf>[PDF,
>>      251 KB]
>>    * African Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Meeting Proposed
>>      Agenda and Outline
>>      <http://meetings.icann.org/meetings/afmig-mar12/proposed-agenda-outline-07feb13-en.pdf>[PDF,
>>      123 KB]
>>    * Information Note for Participants from UNECA
>>      <http://meetings.icann.org/meetings/afmig-mar12/dns-africa-participants-note-07feb13-en.pdf>[PDF,
>>      304 KB]
>>
>> Glen de Saint Géry
>>
>> GNSO Secretariat
>>
>> gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
>> <mailto:gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org>
>>
>> http://gnso.icann.org
>>
>>
>>
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