[AfrICANN-discuss] Webinar Summary Report: January 13, 2015

[Bob Omondi]

Dear Listers,



*Topic: IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability*



On January 13, The Africa team hosted a webinar on IANA Stewardship
Transition and Enhancing ICANN Accountability. The webinar targeted the
Africa community and was open to all. A total of 20 participants joined the
call including representatives from the various CWGs namely Mohamed El
Bashir (ICG), Seun Ojedeji (CWG on naming) and Tijani Ben Jemaa
(CCWG-accountability) who together with ICANN’s Theresa Swinehart were the
speakers.



After welcome remarks from Pierre, Theresa , in her presentation, gave an
overview and status of the two work streams on IANA Stewardship and on
Enhancing ICANN Accountability while noting the tremendous progress that
has been made by the two broad groups. She encouraged the participants and
greater Africa community to get fully involved in the processes.



The rest of the speakers also gave overviews of the current status of their
CWGs while Mohamed El Bashir highlighted the main role of the ICG noting
that the ICG will receive and consolidate the proposals from the 3 CWGs
before forwarding to the NTIA via the ICANN Board. This only after ensuring
that the proposal meets the criteria set out by the NTIA.



Main questions raised included an evaluation of Africa’s participation in
the processes so far; while Seun reported that the CWG on naming will not
meet the Jan 2015 deadline in submitting their proposal to the ICG , Tijani
called for more African participation in the CCWG on Accountability,
observing that very few are taking part in the historic process.



Please access the recording (English) here:
*http://ftp.adigo.com/clients/icann/20150113_AfricanCommunityWebinar.zip
<http://ftp.adigo.com/clients/icann/20150113_AfricanCommunityWebinar.zip>*



Going forward, we plan to organize targeted webinars to the various
stakeholder groups in Africa on a regular basis to help stimulate more
active engagement from the community in key ICANN issues.



Regards

Bob.
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