[AfrICANN-discuss] [AFRI-Discuss] Call for a theme for the Joint AFRALO/AfrICANN Meeting at ICANN 54 Dublin

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

I would love us to have a balanced debate, so apart from discussion on IANA
transition, can we also see a discussion around the .africa TLD? Remember,
the TLD is billed as an African public good by the bidders? I wish I had a
veto on this.

Sincerely.
On Sep 17, 2015 5:41 PM, "Seun Ojedeji" <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think it's accurate to say this does not concern this region
> otherwise we will not have seen over 100+ contributions to ccwg on
> accountability with just 2 of the contributions from Africa! The fact that
> 98+ of the contributions came from other continents should at least be of
> concern and raise our curiosity on why other regions are taking this
> seriously.
>
> Maybe I should state 2 reasons why a developing region like Africa could
> be affected by ICANN accountability/IANA transition.
>
> - Internet penetration is increasing in the region, being part of it by
> using is not enough. Participating in determining how it should serve the
> region/world should be important to us as well.
>
> - ICANN as the global coordinator of the internet identifiers (the IANA
> operator) is undergoing a reform that could affect how we use the tool
> called internet
>
> So if we recognise this as an issue, the solution you refer will then (as
> usual) be collectively developed on the list and shared to the ICANN
> community (which is beyond AFRALO/Africann).
>
> Regards
> Sent from my Asus Zenfone2
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
> On 17 Sep 2015 14:46, "Dr Eberhard W Lisse" <el at lisse.na> wrote:
>
>> I really do not have any idea how the IANA Transition and/or ICANN
>> Accountability could in any, even marginal, way affect any
>> developing economy.
>>
>> There might be a case for the effect, if any, on ccTLD Managers in
>> developing countries, but then this would be a ccNSO issue, and in
>> any case not even addressed by the CCWG/CWG/ICG work.
>>
>> Why don't you draft a solution, we agree to it on the list, saving
>> the proposer the embarrassment of having to actually read it aloud,
>> do with it whatever it is you guys do with these resolutions, and go
>> to the pub instead on Wednesday afternoon.
>>
>> el
>>
>> On 2015-09-17 10:26, Mary Uduma wrote:
>> > All,
>> > I support Seun's proposal as those were my first line of thoughts.
>> > Is it possible to view this from developing countries perspective
>> > instead of narrowing it to Africa only?  Making it more general or
>> > broader considering ICANN Board's new proposal/response to the
>> > CCWG Accountability Public Comment.
>> >
>> > "The impact of IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability on
>> > Developing Economies" ..........  or a better formulation by
>> > others.
>> >
>> > We may look at any aspect(s) of the IANA Transition and the ICANN
>> > accountability that affect the DNS industry in developing
>> > countries, including users.  How simple and clear or complicated
>> > are the proposals?  Are there enough safeguards in the these
>> > proposals to prevent capture by one or few internet
>> > stakeholder(s)?  Region(s)?  Group(s)?  Developing economies are
>> > largely government driven environment, particularly Africa, it
>> > showed up at the AFIGF during the presentation on IANA transition
>> > and accountability, the overarching question was "where does the
>> > government come into the Multi-stakeholder oversight equation?"
>> > Are we sure this has been fully and adequately addressed by the
>> > proposals vis a vice the NTIA requirements for the transition to
>> > happen.
>> >
>> > These are some thought provoking questions I believe we should
>> > address in our communique on the proposed theme.  Others may wish
>> > to raise more questions for the drafting committee.
>> >
>> > My personal thoughts, please.
>> >
>> > Mary Uduma
>> [...]
>>
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