[AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Africa Event in Addis 5-8 March 2013

[Victor Ndonnang]

Thank you Pierre,

First of all congratulations once again to the ICANN's Africa Strategy 
Working Group: You did a great work in a very short time space. I'm 
happy to see concrete initiatives or actions coming out of that 
strategy. Increase the number of registrars and domain names 
registrations in Africa is a big challenge but together with a 
Multi-stakeholder spirit, we can make that happen. I wish great success 
to that event.

I have been participated to ICANN since some years and the first point 
on my participation's agenda was to understand the DNS industry and 
become an ICANN Accredited Registrar. Rapidly, I realized that becoming 
an ICANN Accredited Registrar is not easy for an Africa Company. So I 
join the ALAC to create awareness on the DNS in my local community but 
my primary goal is still relevant.

I know ICANN is a consensus based bottom-up policy development but last 
I was wondering how ICANN can introduce some "positive discrimination" 
into the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). Very few Africans are 
part of the gNSO and how can we influence Its policy development?
I also know that running a registrar is a critical business and the 
company willing to do so has to be well capitalized and sustainable; but 
It is very difficult for a sustainable Africa Start-Up to fulfill the 
financial and insurance requirements of the RAA. I hope that proposed 
solutions to that problem will come out of the Addis Event.

ICANN is mainly about IP addresses and Domain names. Africa is already 
fully part of the IP's part of ICANN; the big challenge now is to make 
Africa become fully part of the DNS's part of ICANN.

I'm naturally interested to participate in that event.
Best regards,
Victor Ndonnang.



On 24/01/2013 22:13, Dandjinou Pierre wrote:
> Dear listers,
>
> This is to inform that within the framework of the Africa strategy 
> which was presented at ICANN 45 in Toronto, ICANN , in partnership 
> with AFTLD, Africa Internet Governance Forum, AfriNIC, ATU, ISOC 
> Africa, AFICTA, is organizing an event on the Multistakeholder 
> Internet Governance model and the DNS Industry and business in Africa.
>
> A preconference workshop is scheduled for 5-6 on the DNS industry in 
> Africa, for a selected number of African registrars and cctlds managers.
> We are expecting from 100-150 attendants to the event and ICANN will 
> be sponsoring 25 to 30 African participants.
>
> Kindly mark the dates and confirm your interest to me as soon as 
> possible. Online registration will be possible and other details will 
> be forwarded.
>
> Best regards
> Pierre
>
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