[AfrICANN-discuss] Statment of the joint meeting of African community

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Not "despite", but "because".

"Stakeholder Staff"? PULEEEZE!!!

We should maybe raise this in the Public Forum.


el

On 2014-09-24, 08:11 , Mwendwa Kivuva wrote:
> Gala night was scrapped in ICANN51.
> Despite that, ICANN does not have budgetary problems. They can subsidize
> requirements for accreditation for developing countries and still follow
> their tradition.
> 
> In the African Strategy, one of the key points was to work towards
> increase of ICANN accredited registrars in the region. Maybe one of the
> Stakeholder staff in the region can give us a brief on this.
> 
> Regards
> 
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
> twitter.com/lordmwesh <http://twitter.com/lordmwesh>
> 
> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
> higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
> 
> On 24 September 2014 03:30, Victor Ndonnang <ndonnang at nvconsulting.biz
> <mailto:ndonnang at nvconsulting.biz>> wrote:
> 
>     +1 Dr. Lisse,
> 
>     This is an excellent proposition.  We can see how to integrate
>     it into the ICANN ongoing work exploring how to support
>     development of the Domain Name industry in developing
>     countries...
> 
>     https://www.icann.org/news/blog/kick-starting-dns-industry-growth-in-underse
>     rved-regions
>     <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/kick-starting-dns-industry-growth-in-underse
>     rved-regions>
>     https://www.icann.org/public-comments/dns-underserved-2014-05-14-en
> 
>     Finding ways to support the ICANN registrar accreditation
>     process for small businesses from developing world, especially
>     Africa has been the main focus of participation in ICANN since
>     years.  I talk about this during the first Africa DNS
>     forum...I called it "positive discrimination" and this will be
>     perfectly in line with ICANN Fellowship program.
> 
>     I support the idea 100% and will proudly join the campaign.
> 
>     Ps.  The starting money of that fund can come from the
>     NewgTLDS auctions...
>     http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Victor.
> 
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: africann-bounces at afrinic.net
>     <mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net>
>     [mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net
>     <mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net>] On
>     Behalf Of Dr Eberhard W Lisse
>     Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:23 PM
>     To: africann at afrinic.net <mailto:africann at afrinic.net>
>     Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Statment of the joint meeting of African
>     community
> 
>     Oh by the way,
> 
>     why are we not campaigning that ICANN stop wasting money on galas and
>     instead pump that money and the corresponding donations into a fund that
>     subsidizes the general liability insurance requirement for start-up
>     Registrars from developing countries?
> 
>     el
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