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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Pierre D!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It was nice to see you in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region>, albeit
for a short time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the statement. With no
intention to brag (about <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>’s
ability), I’m greatly impressed by Manal’s statement. I’m not
sure if the previous hosts of IGF meetings have given such updates (beyond IGF’s
MAG) prior to the event, but Egypt has done really well here not only to show
us how enthusiastic they are in hosting this year’s IGF, but also in
encouraging substantive discussions prior to the IGF.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m mindful that in September 2006
it was the Egyptian government that organised a very interesting IGF Africa
preparatory meeting in <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Media</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cairo</st1:place></st1:City>.
Those we participated with had a great opportunity to try & define what we
wanted out of the IGF. I’m glad to see again that the Egyptian government
is again trying to stimulate & define clearly the meaning and purpose of
the IGF. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have noted over the last few years that
Egyptian government has done really well to play a leading role in championing
Africa ICT agenda in different fora, mainly in ICANN, IGF and ITU. In a context
(i.e. <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>) where it seems not many
governments are willing to participate meaningfully both in global dialogue and
in global ICT policy development, it is pleasing to note the enthusiasm, drive
and commitment shown by the Egyptian government.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I wish the Egyptians all the best in their
hosting of this year’s IGF, and knowing how well they can do, I expect a
great event both in terms of logistics and substantive discussions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And a trip to the pyramids of <st1:City
w:st="on">Giza</st1:City> and a dinner floating along the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Nile</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType> shall always remain eternal
treats for those visiting <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
Manal</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Vika Mpisane</span></font></b></strong><font
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color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>.za Domain Name Authority<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tel: +27 11 275 0082<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Fax:+27 11 234 5022</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
africann-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Dandjinou Pierre<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 09, 2009 1:48
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">africann@afrinic.net</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [AfrICANN-discuss]
Invitation to IGF Cairo</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I am sharing below the declaration by the Egyptian representative at
the IGF sessioon of the 34th ICANN meeting which has just concluded in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>best regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Pierre Dandjinou<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>(Declaration by Mrs Manal, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>Let
me first, on behalf of Egypt, start by congratulating the IGF chair,
secretariat and all MAG members on their tireless efforts in holding the past 3
forums and to applaud the professional organization by the previous 3 hosts, in
Athens, Rio & Hyderabad, which would definitely make our job much more
difficult. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>Egypt</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'> is very proud to be hosting the
coming IGF in Sharm El-Sheikh on November 15<sup>th</sup> to 18<sup>th</sup>.
The IGF proved to be a perfect forum for discussions and exchange of
information and experience. It’s flexibility in terms of topics and
format of discussion helps promoting it as a platform where participants can
converse freely, highlight common points of agreement and identify points which
need further discussion. It also helps participants to have common understanding
of problems and try to reach a way forward. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>Egypt</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'> believes it is important that
the IGF continue beyond its 5-year mandate, maintaining its multi-stakeholder
approach in public policy discussions and capacity building and acting as a
venue for policy coherence, inter-professional dialogue and enhanced cooperation.
We look forward to further discussions on the future of the IGF process
during the forth forum in Sharm El-Sheikh, hoping that we would be able to
maintain the balance and give enough time to discussions on both; the themes of
the upcoming forum as well as the IGF review process.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>I
would like also to share with you where we stand today in terms of preparations
both as a host country and as a participant to the forum. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>As
you may know, the topics and themes discussed at the IGF are normally decided
by members of the MAG, so it might be a bit early to talk about those right
now, yet Egypt would definitely like to see more focus on an agenda that serves
the region, which would certainly be more of a developmental agenda. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>Issues
such as Multilingualism, policies that encourage local Content development,
promoting regional & global coordination on Cyber Security & online
Child Safety as well as challenges related to Access in terms of availability
and affordability are all topics of interest.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>As
Egypt has always been an active participant to the IGF process, we are trying,
within the multiple regions we belong to, to raise awareness of the event and
to promote it as an opportunity for raising issues of common interest, as well
as an opportunity for capacity building and for getting introduced to new
topics and to participating to the policy making of emerging issues as
well. We're also trying to highlight how the forum is flexible in terms
of the topics discussed and the format of discussion as well as the flexibility
in means of getting one's voice heard either through physical attendance or via
remote participation as well as highlight how the forum’s non-binding
output still influences decisions made by other relevant bodies.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>We
are also aware that, on the national level, our interest in the IGF agenda will
never be pushed forward unless there is collective participation from all
national stakeholders. It is no secret that the government of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region> is more
active, on the international level, than other stakeholders within the
country. So we are working on encouraging collective participation from
all national stakeholders. We’re having various national and
regional activities taking place between now and November. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>We've
had a capacity building course with DiploFoundation on general IG issues
tackled from all different points of views, policy, technical, legal and
business. We've also held a session on Internet Governance in cooperation
with the International Chamber of Commerce ICC-BASIS, which tackled the issue
from a business perspective. The session aimed at encouraging more
involvement from the local business sector not only during the upcoming IGF
meeting but also afterwards. The session focused on the business sector as
the driving force for Internet development, how the business sector worldwide
is directly affected by Internet public policies and what role can the business
sector play in shaping this policy making; thus ultimately answering why the
Egyptian business sector should care to participate. This awareness
raising was very important not only on the thematic level but also, and even
more importantly, in terms of mapping and linking our national dialogue to the
global dialogue of the IGF where same issues and many more are being
discussed. The Egyptian business community has always participated in the
making of national Internet policies since early 90’s and hence the
expertise are there and are aware of topics only missing that link between our
national dialogue and what's taking place on the international level. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>It’s
not only the Egyptian business voice that is not adequately represented but
also other stakeholders from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>
too. We still have more activities planned between now and November
including a Summer School on Internet Governance in cooperation with Arhus
University and Prof. Wolfgang & the Arab World Internet Institute, we also
have plans for exchange of experiences with other national IGFs as well as
holding specialized thematic workshops on topics of interest to our national
stakeholders; thus trying to bring everyone onboard. We are also trying
to put in place, in cooperation with ISOC, a one-day African IG event during
the next AfriNIC/AfNOG meeting in May, which will be hosted in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cairo</st1:place></st1:City>. And normally we have ongoing
coordination with Arab countries through working groups of the League of Arab
States.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>Now,
before getting into logistics, I would like first to thank our Indian and
Brazilian colleagues who have been very helpful in voluntarily sharing with us
their experiences and giving us all the tips and advices that may help us with
our preparations. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>As
you may know, the next forum will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, a beautiful
famous resort which you will hopefully find peaceful and quite to work in the
morning and very enjoyable and entertaining after the meetings. The event
will be held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Congress</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> which is a
state-of-the-art center used for all major events held in Sharm
El-Sheikh. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>As
Sharm El-Sheikh is Known for its wonderful beaches and being a target
destination by tourists of all nationalities, there are hotels of all different
categories and widely ranging prices all over the city. Preferential
rates of the event will range from around 80 USD up to 200 USD which we hope would
suit all participants. Those special rates will extend 5 days prior and
after the event time for participants wishing to come earlier or extend their
stay in Sharm. The city is not big and has no much traffic, so no matter
where you decide to stay, you'll still be a few minutes drive from the venue,
yet not a walking distance because it's sometimes a long walk even to come out
of the hotel. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>There
will be shuttling between the venue and the event’s official hotels which
will be announced, as soon as settled, on the event's website. Sharm
El-Sheikh is a 45-minute flight from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cairo</st1:place></st1:City>
and there are already a number of scheduled flights between Cairo & Sharm
every day. There are also flights from some parts of <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
that go directly to Sharm. There will be meet and assist at both
airports, in Cairo & Sharm El-Sheikh. Egyptair will be the official
carrier of the event and will be providing 15-25% discount on air tickets for
conference participants. Additionally, there will be an official travel
agent who can prepare in advance day excursions and other local trips. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>All
this information and much more will be posted to the event's website, which is </span></font><a
href="http://igf09.eg/"><font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>igf09.eg</span></font></a><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>, it is still under construction
but is expected to be ready by next week. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
kashida;text-kashida:0%;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri'>And
last but not least we are arranging for an unforgettable social event and are
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