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At 00:48 27/10/2008 +0100, Dr Yassin Mshana wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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?</blockquote><br>
The venue of our meetings are determined based on <br>
spontaneous interest expressed by organisations <br>
that are wiling to host it. We usually post a call <br>
for hosting that interested party respond to. <br><br>
You can see an example on AfriNIC web site:<br>
<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/news/news.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.afrinic.net/news/news.htm<br><br>
</a>** [10/10/2007]
<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/call_for_hosting_proposal.htm">
Call for Hosting Proposal for AfriNIC-9 and AfriNIC-11</a><br><br>
From the proposals we receive we chose the most <br>
appropriate (based on the cost, the Interest of the <br>
Host, if we have never been into that country for <br>
our meeting, if their is a need for better awareness <br>
in the country ... etc), our goal being to be able <br>
to host the meeting in a many country as possible so <br>
to be able to touch the maximum of people in the <br>
region. <br><br>
I Hop this answers your question.<br><br>
- a.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">2008/10/26 Nii Quaynor
<<a href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com">quaynor@ghana.com</a>><br>
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<dd>... and interference in technical policy processes is bad.<br>
<dd>nii<br><br>
<dd>----- Original Message ----- From: "alain aina"
<<a href="mailto:aalain@trstech.net">aalain@trstech.net</a>><br>
<dd>To:
<<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br>
<dd>Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 6:56 PM<br>
<dd>Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] About the change of AfriNIC-9
venue!<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
<dd>Thanks for sharing this with us.<br><br>
<dd>People should understand that if we don't have good
networks in<br>
<dd>AFRICA, it won't help naming space including
dotafrica.<br><br>
<br>
<dd>--alain<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
<dd>On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Anne-Rachel Inné wrote:<br><br>
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<dd>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>
<dd>As you know, the AfriNIC-9 will now be held in Mauritius instead
of Addis<br>
<dd>Ababa (Ethiopia) as originally planned. This is a unique
situation which<br>
<dd>has affected us all. Many of you have written to us to inquire
about what<br>
<dd>happened and to propose your help. Thanks to you all and your
continued<br>
<dd>support to what we are trying to do at AfriNIC for our
Region.<br><br>
<dd>We sincerely apologize for the short notice in change of venue. The
previous<br>
<dd>host, ETC (Ethiopia Telecommunication Corporation) notified us
that "for some<br>
<dd>serious reason that needs time to clear and settle", they have
been obliged<br>
<dd>to pend and postpone hosting the AfriNIC-9 meeting. After some<br>
<dd>investigations to<br>
<dd>try to understand what is happening, it comes to our attention
that<br>
<dd>the decision<br>
<dd>comes from the Government who has requested them to suspend the
hosting of<br>
<dd>AfriNIC-9 meeting because they are suspecting AfriNIC to have
some<br>
<dd>hidden agenda<br>
<dd>with the meeting in Addis Ababa and which has to do with<br>
<dd>"dotAfrica". According<br>
<dd>to the article reproduced bellow, the bid for dotAfrica presented
by a Company<br>
<dd>(leaded by and Ethiopian) has been sabotaged by AfriNIC which
prevent her to<br>
<dd>settle the Headquarters in Ethiopia. According to information
we have been<br>
<dd>able to collect, she claimed that AfriNIC want to host
"dotAfrica" in South<br>
<dd>Africa or Mauritius so is against Ethiopia interests by doing
so.<br><br>
<dd>Let's me precise here that dotAfrica and domain names businesses
are not part<br>
<dd>of AfriNIC's activities. This serious misunderstanding of what
AfriNIC is<br>
<dd>exactly and its role in the community injected by a person
claiming to be the<br>
<dd>defender of Africa, has unfortunately denied Ethiopia a chance
to host this<br>
<dd>important African technical community meeting. Indeed, AfriNIC which
mission<br>
<dd>is, amongst other to "to support Internet technology usage and
development,<br>
<dd>and promoting Internet governance" in Africa welcomes the
opportunity to have<br>
<dd>a domain (dotAfrica) that will identify the African landscape on the
Internet.<br>
<dd>AfriNIC will probably support any Open, transparent and bottom up
initiative<br>
<dd>to have a dotAfrica domain for the region but will never run or
participate<br>
<dd>in doing any business related to that domain names or any
other.<br><br>
<dd>AfriNIC remains a service to the community and strongly
disagree with personal<br>
<dd>interests and political pressures on its bottom up processes.
AfriNIC developed<br>
<dd>its legitimacy from the community and will remain a community
driven<br>
<dd>organisation<br>
<dd>as are the four other Regional Numbers Registries. We have
already run our<br>
<dd>Public Policy meeting in eight other countries without any
issues. Our main<br>
<dd>objective has always been to raise awareness among the local
community of the<br>
<dd>country we are visiting and involve them more into the
process.<br><br>
<dd>AfriNIC remains open to all of us.<br><br>
<dd>Let's keep focused on our numerous objectives and challenges in
an open<br>
<dd>transparent with a systematic multi-stakeholder approach.<br><br>
<dd>The whole story is now released by the local press and available
at:<br>
<dd><a href="http://www.ethiopianreporter.com/content/view/3048/54/">
http://www.ethiopianreporter.com/content/view/3048/54/</a>. A very quick
English<br>
<dd>translation is also attached.<br><br>
<dd>Kind Regards.<br><br>
<br>
<dd>
______________________________________________________________________<br>
<dd>Adiel A.
Akplogan
Tel. +230 466 66 16<br>
<dd>Chief Executive Officer,
AfriNIC
Fax: +230 466 67 58<br>
<dd><a href="mailto:adiel@afrinic.net">adiel@afrinic.net</a> -
<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/" eudora="autourl">www.afrinic.net</a>
sip:
<a href="mailto:adiel@voip.afrinic.net">adiel@voip.afrinic.net</a><br>
<dd>-------<br>
<dd>Register to attend AfriNIC-9 Meeting in Mauritius: 22-28 November
2008<br>
<dd><a href="http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic9/index.htm">
http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic9/index.htm</a><br><br>
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