[AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: FW: AfrICANN December 2014 - pdf
Arsène Tungali
arsenebaguma at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 06:44:42 UTC 2014
Good newsletter.
Even though the quality of pictures is not the best, but the content is
okay.
Congratulation to the community and it's leaders.
Regards,
A
**Arsène Tungali**,
Co-Founder & Executive Director,
*Rudi International* www.rudiinternational.org
Founder & Director, *Mabingwa Forum*
www.mabingwa-forum.com
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*Actualité chez Rudi International:* *Le Project Noel 2013 s'est tres bien
passee et nous remercions les uns les autres pour leur appui. Voir les
photos de la celebration ICI
<https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.551228351633742.1073741831.126276610795587&type=1>.
Vous pouvez déjà donner pour la Noël 2014 ICI.
<http://www.rudiinternational.org/donations>*
<http://www.rudiinternational.org/donations>
*Actualité chez Mabingwa Forum:** La premiere edition de Mabingwa Forum
s'est tenu a Goma, du 6 au 8 decembre 2013 et fut un grand succès (voir les
PHOTOS <http://www.flickr.com/photos/111643893@N04/sets/>.) La 2e edition
se tient a Goma du 5 au 7 decembre 2014. Prenez déjà votre inscription
<http://mabingwa-forum.com/mabingwa-2014/registration/>*
2014-12-15 8:24 GMT+02:00 Bob Omondi <omondibob at gmail.com>:
>
> Listers,
>
> We are happy to share with your our latest edition of the AfrICANN
> Newsletter, the last in 2014. Happy reading. As always, we are happy to
> receive any feedback or questions.
>
>
> Regards
> Bob.
>
>
> Dear Readers,
>
> 2014 has been long and eventful with key events and announcements globally
> and regionally that promise to significantly change the Internet Ecosystem.
> In Africa, we continue to keep you updated of our activities and really
> hope that you also enjoyed reading our AfriCANN October edition!
>
> The last two months have been full of activities not only in ICANN but
> also the wider Internet Ecosystem. The Africa team participated jointly and
> individually in a number of key events across Africa all aimed at deepening
> our Engagements with all stakeholders. We sponsored and participated in the
> historic AFRINIC 21 meeting in Ebene Mauritius, the home of AFRINIC, as it
> prepares to celebrate a decade of existence. We also want to take this
> opportunity to congratulate and wish the outgoing founding AFRINIC CEO -
> Mr. Adiel Akplogan the very best in future endeavors. AFRINIC remains a key
> partner of ICANN in the implementation of the Africa Strategy and we thank
> Adiel and his staff for their support.
>
> Lastly, and alongside the AFRINIC 21 meeting, the Africa Strategy Review
> team met and reviewed the current Africa Strategic plan to make it more
> responsive and aligned to the current ICANN plan of 2016 - 2020. We also
> took the opportunity to participate at the 2nd Africa School of IG as well
> as visit some of our stakeholders. Our spotlight section will highlight a
> key proposal from the community to Enhance Engagement with Africa in 2015
> as we prepare for ICANN 55 in Marrakesh. We are also happy to announce the
> commissioning of yet another L-Root instance in Africa hosted by Mauritius
> Telecom - Mauritius and would like to sincerely thank you - the African
> community - for your support in 2014.
>
> *Welcome to AfrICANN as we wish you all a merry Xmas and prosperous 2015!*
> *Africa Team*
> Spotlight: Supporting Enhanced Engagement in Africa - 2015
>
> Early last month, Community concerns that would prevent maximum
> participation at ICANN 52, a critical one given the ongoing discussions
> around the IANA Stewardship Transition and ICANN Accountability, prompted
> ICANN to postpone the meeting in Marrakech, Morocco and to relocate to
> Singapore on the same dates. In the announcement
> <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-11-03-en>, the Board
> confirmed its intent to hold the first ICANN 2016 meeting in Marrakech,
> Morocco taking into account the vital role of the African region to the
> success of ICANN's globalization efforts.
>
>
> *Figure 1: Africa Community in Mauritius*
>
> The Africa Community team was subsequently invited to propose possible
> ways of enhancing engagement in Africa in the run up to the Marrakech
> meeting now slotted for March 2016. The Africa team (Fig 1 above) composed
> of representatives from SO / AC leaders, AFTLD, AFRALO, AFICTA, AFRINIC,
> NEPAD, GAC, African Registrars Association, AU and others met in Mauritius
> alongside AFRINIC 21 and came up with the following 4 key projects that
> will further be evaluated and refined for implementation ahead of the
> Morocco meeting
>
> *1) Active participation in African regional and continental ICT
> ministerial meetings*
>
> The objectives of this project will be to increase awareness among African
> stakeholders, especially high-level (Ministerial and heads of state)
> governmental decision-makers on:
>
> *a)* The bottom-up multi-stakeholder Internet Governance model of policy
> development,
> *b) *The role of ICANN in the IG eco-system,
> *c)* Key issues on the Internet economy such as IANA Stewardship
> transition.
>
> ICANN staff and board members where possible, will actively participate in
> African regional and continental ICT (and other key) ministerial (and Heads
> of State Summit) meetings as well regional meetings organized by Regional
> Economic Communities (RECs), and the African Union Commission (AUC).
>
> *2) ICANN High Level Governmental Meeting (HLGM), Marrakech 2016*
>
> This particular meeting, and as a fulfillment of the recommendation of
> Accountability and Transparency Review (ATRT1 & 2) under the Affirmation of
> Commitments will have the following key objectives:
>
> *a)* To promote awareness of importance of multi-stakeholder Internet
> governance and governments' positive engagement in multi-stakeholder fora
> and entities such as ICANN;
> *b)* To support ICANN globalization and outreach to non-participating
> communities in developing countries and Small Island states; and to the
> approx. 50 governments that are not members of the GAC (20 of which are
> from Africa e.g. Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe)
> *c)* To foster a greater level of meaningful engagement in ICANN by more
> GAC members
> *d)* To secure commitment by governments to support and contribute to
> ICANN process on IANA stewardship transition;
> *e)* To steer discussion of the NETmundial roadmap towards existing
> multi-stakeholder fora, specifically the Internet Governance Forum
>
> *3) NewGen Program*
>
> In the framework of the ICANN NewGen Program, an event will be organized
> in the Marrakech meeting gathering around 10 young Africans from all over
> Africa aimed at bringing the youth to ICANN ecosystem with their fresh
> knowledge and innovative spirit. The target group will be
>
>
> - Mostly from the academic environment (Students, young researchers)
> - From civil society organizations
> - Young entrepreneurs (startup) and other private sector employees.
> (Partnerships)
>
> ICANN will issue call for expression of interest to be launched 6 months
> prior to Marrakech meeting through universities, civil society networks,
> technoparks and incubators in which the applicants will explain their
> achievements in the field of Internet. An evaluation committee will select
> the first 10 best achievements while considering Gender Balance /
> Innovation / Geographic spread.
>
> *4) Workshop for Africa Telecom regulators*
>
> The team also expressed the need to deepen outreach with Africa's Telecom
> regulators with an aim to amongst others:
>
> *a)* Explore challenges and opportunities in achieving a supportive legal
> and regulatory enabling environment for African Internet interconnectivity
> *b)* Explore how regulators can contribute to the promotion of domain
> names industry?
> *c)* How can regulators contribute to Strengthen ccTLD development in
> Africa?
> *d)* Sensitize African regulators to be more active and visible on the
> global scene as well in the technical management and Internet Governance in
> terms of technologies and their uses.
> Africa Strategy Review: Ebene Mauritius
>
> In our 10 Nov 2014 blog post
> <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/taking-stock-of-our-africa-strategy>, we
> informed you of the need to review the current Africa Strategy to make it
> more responsive to Africa's needs as per feedback from the community.
>
>
> *Figure 2: Africa Strategy Review Team in Session*
>
> The Africa Strategy Review team (Fig 2 above) composed of representatives
> from SO / AC leaders, AFTLD, AFRALO, AFICTA, AFRINIC, NEPAD, GAC, African
> Registrars Association, AU and others nominated based on their personal
> experiences was convened in Mauritius on November 24 - 25, 2014 alongside
> the AFRINIC 21 meeting. The review team came up with a reviewed and
> realigned document, deemed the ICANN Africa Strategy Ver 2.0 2016 - 2020,
> to be further on disseminated for additional input from the African
> community. A final strategy document is planned for the first quarter of
> 2015.
>
> The strategy review team also identified the need for the establishment of
> a steering committee that will work closely with the ICANN staff to support
> and monitor the implementation of the strategic plan. This committee will
> work independently based on own charter and will also be publicly announced
> to the community to apply or nominate members.
>
> ICANN Participates in AFRINIC21
>
> On November 22, the ICANN Africa team travelled to Ebene, Mauritius, the
> home of AFRINIC to participate in the 21st AFRINIC meeting
> <http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-21/en/agenda/agenda#day-6-27th-nov>
> as well as the 2nd Africa School of Internet Governance (AfriSIG 2014
> <http://african-ig-school.events.apc.org/about-afrisig/>) jointly
> organized by NEPAD and APC. Indeed it was an incredible experience
> especially with AFRINIC celebrating 10 years of existence while looking
> ahead to a new era of opportunities even as they bid farewell to the
> founding CEO - Adiel Akplogan. While day 1 & 2 was dedicated to the Africa
> strategy review, the rest of the week saw the team organize and participate
> in various meetings and 2 key panels as well as visit some of the
> stakeholders including a tour of AFRINIC offices.
>
> *a) ICANN Panel*
>
>
> *Figure 3: Panelists at the ICANN Session during day 4 of AFRINIC 21*
>
> This session was moderated by Dr. Nii Quaynor and discussed the following
> focus areas for ICANN in Africa and all the slides can be found here
> <http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-21/en/agenda/agenda#day-6-27th-nov>.
>
>
> - Report on the Africa Strategy Review meeting (Pierre, ICANN)
> - ICANN IDN program and IDN Africa project (Yaovi, ICANN)
> - Update on the New gTLD program (Bob, ICANN)
> - NOMCOM Outreach Presentation (Tijani Ben Jeema, AFRALO)
> - Presentation on AFRALO (Aziz Hilali, AFRALO)
>
> Key questions raised during this session includes, the relevance of the
> ngTLDs for Africa, the *.Africa* delegation delays and status,
> prohibitive prices for African ccTLDs compared to gTLDs as well as low
> African participation in ICANN tech days. Like other sessions, this meeting
> was streamed live by AFRINIC and widely covered on twitter *#ICANN
> #AFRINIC21*
>
> *b) IANA oversight Transition Panel*
>
>
> *Figure 4: IANA Stewardship Transition Panel in Session*
>
> This second session generated as much debate; discussion and interest just
> like the first. Panelists included Mouhamet Diop, Seun Ojedeji (CRISP -
> Africa Region), Paul Rendek, Elise Gerich (ICANN), Dr Nii Quaynor, Andres
> Piazza and Daniel Karrenberg. Adiel Akplogan while moderating the session
> started with a brief presentation on the background of IANA functions and
> the status of the African Region Number Community process
> <http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/iana-oversight-transition> (CRISP).
>
> The rich experience and mix of panelists was reflected on the quality of
> debate that followed. Elise while encouraging and appreciating the
> collaborative model displayed by the African community in an effort to come
> up with a proposal to the ICG was keen to point out that the NTIA has never
> interfered in the operational work of IANA and referred the audience to IANA's
> reports <http://www.iana.org/performance/>. Overall, panelists agreed on
> the need for more aggressive and sustained awareness efforts by all
> stakeholders including ICANN to ensure proper understanding of the IANA
> functions especially governments.
>
> Participants also noted the critical need for the Names and Numbers
> communities to work closely with the Protocol Parameters community as they
> developed their responses to the ICG since protocols actually determine how
> names and numbers are administered and used.
>
> *c) 2ND Africa School of Internet Governance (AfriSIG2014)*
>
> The ICANN team also took time to visit and participate at the AfriSIG 2014
> <http://african-ig-school.events.apc.org/about-afrisig/>. This event,
> hosted at a different venue also attracted over 40 participants selected
> from across the Africa continent. The following themes were under
> discussion this year;
>
>
> - Theoretical concepts and principles: including human rights,
> history, politics, and law relevant to Internet users and intermediaries
> - Technology and the governance and management of critical Internet
> resources
> - National and regional policy: including convergence with
> telecommunications policy and regulation
> - The Internet Governance landscape in Africa
>
> *d) Meeting with Mauritius Telecom: a new L-Root Instance Commissioned!*
>
> On Nov 28, the team visited Mauritius Telecom, who have just concluded and
> commissioned an L-Root Instance. The team discussed about ICANN and the MSM
> model and invited Mauritius Telecom to start participating in ICANN
> processes. We also received questions on the ngTLD process and procedures
> as well as discussed the challenges currently facing the .MU ccTLD.
> Overall, this has been a very successful mission on all fronts for us as
> ICANN
>
> In focus: Engagement Activities by the Africa Team
>
> *Medays summit; Morocco*
>
> The VP for Africa was in Morocco on 11-16 November for a series of
> meetings with local organizers of ICANN 52 on the one hand, and for
> participating to the Medays summit organized by the Amadeus Institute on
> the other hand.
>
> While there, Pierre took time to meet and also engage the Moroccan
> government officials including the ministry of foreign affairs, the
> ministry of Tourism and the telecoms regulator as well as AFRALO chair Mr.
> Aziz Hilali.
>
> The Medays summit <http://www.medays.org/> was a four-day event themed *'What
> Order in the chaos'*. A high level gathering on issues related to
> stability of the world. The Meeting gathered more than 600 participants,
> including 25 former or present ministers, key international peace
> negotiators, former Prime Ministers. The gathering issued a Tanger
> declaration on 15 key points intended to recommend avenues/ solutions for
> the numerous socioeconomic political and security threats.
>
> ICANN participated on the panel on Cybersecurity titled: *Cyber threats
> and cyber wars: What Internet after Snowden?* Our key message was about
> spreading the word about ICANN's remit. Indeed, while we do not deal with
> cyber threats or cyber security, we do manage to secure the DNS and we do
> collaborate/partner with other stakeholders to ensure stability and
> security of the net.
>
> *Outreach Mission to Mauritania November 12-13, 2014*
>
> Mauritania is one the countries with low participation in ICANN SO/AC
> activities. ICANN's Yaovi Atohoun visited Mauritania on November 12-13,
> 2014 for various engagement meetings with stakeholders in the country in
> coordination with M. Mohamed Lemine, the director of ICT at the Ministry of
> ICT. While there, Yaovi was able to meet with:.
>
>
> - Ministry in charge of ICT
> - The Regulatory Body
> - University of Sciences, Technology and Medicine
> - The WARCIP project team
> - Local Telcos
>
> *Figure 5: Students of the University after a lecture on ICANN*
>
> He also managed to offer a lecture to a group of 60 university students
> about ICANN. In the end, we he received a full commitment from the Ministry
> in charge of ICT for the involvement of Mauritania in GAC. The other
> stakeholders have also expressed their commitment to more participation in
> ICANN future activities. We'll keep in touch with them for any additional
> information and necessary support.
>
> *DNNSEC Roadshow in Gaborone, Botswana: December 1-2 2014*
>
> DNNSEC Roadshow in Gaborone, Botswana: December 1-2 2014
>
> After Cameroon in July 2014, Bostwana is the second country to host a
> DNSSEC Roadshow as part of the implementation of the Africa Strategy in
> this fiscal year 2015. The roadshow was hosted by Botswana Communications
> Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) and was attended by local Internet Service
> Providers (ISPs) and the rest of the Internet community, as an effort to
> have adequate engagement and consensus within the local Internet community
> about issues relating to Internet security. Please read an article from a
> local newspaper after the event at
> http://www.weekendpost.co.bw/wp-news-details.php?nid=277
>
> Upcoming Events in Africa
>
> *Africa Telecom People 2014
> <http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/1013-af21>*
> To he held in Abidjan, Cote-d'Ivoire from December 18 - 19. Yaovi Atohoun
> will represent ICANN in this event. More information here:
> http://www.telecomafricapeople.net
>
> From ICANN Global
>
>
> - *ICANN 52:* This meeting will be held in Singapore on February 8 -
> 12. Please read more here: http://singapore52.icann.org/en/
> - *ICANN 53* Fellowship Application now open, please apply here:https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-05-en
>
> - Apply for *Key leadership positions* in ICANN:
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-08-en
> - The latest in IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN
> Accountability: https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability
> - Nomination period opens for the ICANN Multistakeholer Ethos Award
> <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-10-en>
>
>
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