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

[Olévié Kouami]

Thank you so much for this report.
Great news !
Cheers !
-Olévié-


2015-01-16 7:43 GMT+01:00 Christopher Momanyi <cmomanyi at strathmore.edu>:

> Bob, thanks for sharing this
>
> Regards
>
> On 16 January 2015 at 09:32, Bob Omondi <omondibob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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