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<div>Yes, I approached you at the Lisbon meeting and shared your presentation ahead of time and your took note of the governance structure and said that was what was missing in your proposals. I suppose that one you have not fully developed yet.
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<div>I am surprised that you have never heard of what I was doing based on that, and when you have yourself announced at the Afri-ICANN meeting that there were two initiatives on the ground and for lack of time, I cannot preset mine. I believe there were over 15 people in the room.
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<div>I am glad to note that the discussion is generating a lot of interest finally from everyone. It appears you folks were sleeping on it and seem to get caught up now.</div>
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<div>While I have appreciated the model you discussed , I did not feel it has the strength, so I suggested my own. It is a free world we live in right! This does not mean I am <font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">to
</font> willing to work with you. We just have to agree to disagree. Like I said the project is for Africa.</div>
<div>Hope that clarifies any misunderstanding </div>
<div>Cheers.</div>
<div>Sophia </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pierre Dandjinou</b> <<a href="mailto:dandjinou.pierre@undp.org">dandjinou.pierre@undp.org</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi Sophia,</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks for providing these answers to Vika's questions.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Good to know you are progressing on the dot Africa, but a bit tricky that some of us whom you approached some time ago, no longer heard of this, especially when you were told that the AF* (Afnog, Afrinic, Aftlds, Afren,Aftld..) have been working on a dot Africa model. You were asked to join forces and avoid duplication and you promised!
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is fine to respond that the dot Africa is (will be?) owned by the African people, but one should go beyond this response and present a business model..which speaks for itself.
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best regards</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pierre Dandjinou</span></font></p>
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