Fellow Africans, friends of Africa et al,<br><br>Can someone please give us an insight as to how this major change happened so suddenly? What was the process that took place in the identification of the venue and the support?<br>
<br>That would be help since the Article has done its public duty "to inform" - there is a need to digest this important event in AfriNIC history.<br><br>Best regards<br><br>Yassin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2008/10/26 Nii Quaynor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com">quaynor@ghana.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
... and interference in technical policy processes is bad.<br>
nii<br>
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Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 6:56 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] About the change of AfriNIC-9 venue!<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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Thanks for sharing this with us.<br>
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People should understand that if we don't have good networks in<br>
AFRICA, it won't help naming space including dotafrica.<br>
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--alain<br>
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On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Anne-Rachel Inné wrote:<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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As you know, the AfriNIC-9 will now be held in Mauritius instead of Addis<br>
Ababa (Ethiopia) as originally planned. This is a unique situation which<br>
has affected us all. Many of you have written to us to inquire about what<br>
happened and to propose your help. Thanks to you all and your continued<br>
support to what we are trying to do at AfriNIC for our Region.<br>
<br>
We sincerely apologize for the short notice in change of venue. The previous<br>
host, ETC (Ethiopia Telecommunication Corporation) notified us that "for some<br>
serious reason that needs time to clear and settle", they have been obliged<br>
to pend and postpone hosting the AfriNIC-9 meeting. After some<br>
investigations to<br>
try to understand what is happening, it comes to our attention that<br>
the decision<br>
comes from the Government who has requested them to suspend the hosting of<br>
AfriNIC-9 meeting because they are suspecting AfriNIC to have some<br>
hidden agenda<br>
with the meeting in Addis Ababa and which has to do with<br>
"dotAfrica". According<br>
to the article reproduced bellow, the bid for dotAfrica presented by a Company<br>
(leaded by and Ethiopian) has been sabotaged by AfriNIC which prevent her to<br>
settle the Headquarters in Ethiopia. According to information we have been<br>
able to collect, she claimed that AfriNIC want to host "dotAfrica" in South<br>
Africa or Mauritius so is against Ethiopia interests by doing so.<br>
<br>
Let's me precise here that dotAfrica and domain names businesses are not part<br>
of AfriNIC's activities. This serious misunderstanding of what AfriNIC is<br>
exactly and its role in the community injected by a person claiming to be the<br>
defender of Africa, has unfortunately denied Ethiopia a chance to host this<br>
important African technical community meeting. Indeed, AfriNIC which mission<br>
is, amongst other to "to support Internet technology usage and development,<br>
and promoting Internet governance" in Africa welcomes the opportunity to have<br>
a domain (dotAfrica) that will identify the African landscape on the Internet.<br>
AfriNIC will probably support any Open, transparent and bottom up initiative<br>
to have a dotAfrica domain for the region but will never run or participate<br>
in doing any business related to that domain names or any other.<br>
<br>
AfriNIC remains a service to the community and strongly disagree with personal<br>
interests and political pressures on its bottom up processes. AfriNIC developed<br>
its legitimacy from the community and will remain a community driven<br>
organisation<br>
as are the four other Regional Numbers Registries. We have already run our<br>
Public Policy meeting in eight other countries without any issues. Our main<br>
objective has always been to raise awareness among the local community of the<br>
country we are visiting and involve them more into the process.<br>
<br>
AfriNIC remains open to all of us.<br>
<br>
Let's keep focused on our numerous objectives and challenges in an open<br>
transparent with a systematic multi-stakeholder approach.<br>
<br>
The whole story is now released by the local press and available at:<br>
<a href="http://www.ethiopianreporter.com/content/view/3048/54/" target="_blank">http://www.ethiopianreporter.com/content/view/3048/54/</a>. A very quick English<br>
translation is also attached.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards.<br>
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______________________________________________________________________<br>
Adiel A. Akplogan Tel. +230 466 66 16<br>
Chief Executive Officer, AfriNIC Fax: +230 466 67 58<br>
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Register to attend AfriNIC-9 Meeting in Mauritius: 22-28 November 2008<br>
<a href="http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic9/index.htm" target="_blank">http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic9/index.htm</a><br>
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