Hello Pierre,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for this communication and Minute of The Meeting. Much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>I am pleased to see that members of GAC from Africa were present (I recognize one).</div>
<div><br></div><div>The issue is that, although the actions taken was right, why not circulate the Minutes widely since this <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank">africann@afrinic.net</a>> includes a large proportion of Africans? I have not heard a complaint that this list excluded anyone so far....</div>
<div><br></div><div>All in all, Why wasn't this sideline at ICANN-44 activity not communicated widely - before, during and after the event? It is history now...</div><div><br></div><div>My suggestion is to engage a Reverse Gear to this whole thing and let the CEO of ICANN know we are doing so. No harm doing that since a round of consultations need to take place - for inclusive purposes. In that case, ICANN-Toronto will not be the opportune time and place to deal with this. If ICANN has budgeted for this activity - not bad eh? They can hold fire until another ICANN meeting. That is a lesson we have learned - or is there a rush for this which would mislead ICANN and everybody concerned?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am sorry to have to suggest a STOP to this for the moment - since it is better to get things in a right from the beginning. </div><div><br></div><div>I have taken the liberty to copy this to Steve Crocker for his attention please - since he ought to know about the suggestion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div><br></div><div>Yassin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 July 2012 11:42, Dandjinou Pierre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pdandjinou@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdandjinou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>For your information,these minutes were prepared and circulated on the AfrICANN 44 list by Makane Faye at the end of the meeting with ICANN Board</div>
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<div>The subsequent threads below provide further details . </div>
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<div>I am sharing them here for further clarification and hope we Shall now move on and collectively deliver<br><br>Regards</div>
<div>Pierre</div>
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Date: Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:11 AM<br>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-44] Africa Strategic plan<br>To: Mary Uduma <<a href="mailto:mnuduma@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mnuduma@yahoo.com</a>>, AfrICANN-44 Participant List <<a href="mailto:africann-44@afrinic.net" target="_blank">africann-44@afrinic.net</a>><br>
Cc: "<a href="mailto:africa@gac.icann.org" target="_blank">africa@gac.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:africa@gac.icann.org" target="_blank">africa@gac.icann.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:afgwg-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank">afgwg-discuss@afrinic.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:afgwg-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank">afgwg-discuss@afrinic.net</a>>, Steve Crocker <<a href="mailto:steve@shinkuro.com" target="_blank">steve@shinkuro.com</a>>, Makane Faye <<a href="mailto:faymakane@gmail.com" target="_blank">faymakane@gmail.com</a>>, Jamie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:jamie.hedlund@icann.org" target="_blank">jamie.hedlund@icann.org</a>><br>
<br><br>Dear Manal, Mary, Moktar and other Colleagues,<br><br>I wish to congratulate Alice for proposing a bottom up approach, which should be adopted by the IGFs which have not yet started their process. In this connection, I would like to echoe Moktar's proposal to strengthen the Committee which was established yesterday to depart from a Committee of 4 to a Committee of 7 taking into account representatives from the remaining 3 regions. <br>
<br>In this regard, I propose that Ms Palesa Legose of the Department of Communication in South Africa which is the Vice-Chair of the African Ministerial ICT Conference represents the Southern African sub-region. <br><br>
East African stakeholders are requested to consult among themselves and propose 1 member to the Committee; the Central African Group is also required to follow the same process.<br><br>I believe if we have Palesa and one representative each from East and Central Africa, the list of Committee members could be closed. May I take this opportunity to submit the minutes of yesterday's meeting.<br>
<br>Best regards,
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<div><br><br>Mary Uduma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnuduma@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mnuduma@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear All,</div>
<div>I wish to join in thanking Steve and his team for the productive meeting held today. The AF Community in ICANN has been encouraged by your show of support and commitment towards the different topics discussed today. Thank you so much. We look forward to working with the Board in actualissing the resolutions reached.<br>
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<div><span>Alice, the East Africa IGF is a good starting point. I have taken a cue from you to suggest to the coordinator of West Africa IGF to include such discussions at the forthcoming WAIGF in Sierra Leone 2 - 4 July. I have received a positive response urging me to be present for the discussion. <br>
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<div><span>I wish to encourage AF community from West Africa to endeavor to attend the WAIGF meeting and make contributions to enrich the discussion. Check out www,<a href="http://waigf.org/" target="_blank">waigf.org</a> to register.<br>
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<div><span>ICANN is a strong partner of the event, and we shall not miss the opportunity to reach out to our people. I hope ICANN is sending a strong representation to the meeting. <br></span></div>
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<div><span>Mary.</span></div>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">From:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org" target="_blank">alice@apc.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org" target="_blank">alice@apc.org</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:africa@gac.icann.org" target="_blank">africa@gac.icann.org</a>; <a href="mailto:afgwg-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank">afgwg-discuss@afrinic.net</a>; <a href="mailto:africann-44@afrinic.net" target="_blank">africann-44@afrinic.net</a>; <a href="mailto:africa@gac.icann.org" target="_blank">africa@gac.icann.org</a>; Jamie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:jamie.hedlund@icann.org" target="_blank">jamie.hedlund@icann.org</a>> <br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Cc:</span></b> Steve Crocker <<a href="mailto:steve@shinkuro.com" target="_blank">steve@shinkuro.com</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, June 27, 2012 5:02 PM
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<div><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>We wish to thank Steve and other members of the board for making the time<br>to meet with African stakeholders this morning. It was a very productive<br>meeting.<br><br>We want to take this opportunity to again welcome the new CEO Fadi<br>
Chehadé and are grateful for your strong support and look forward to<br>working with you to increase Africa's participation and contribution to<br>ICANN.<br><br>We wish to inform you that the East Africa region plans to hold the<br>
regional IGF, the East Africa IGF in July 17 and 18th and before then each<br>EA country will hold their own national IGF. The Kenya one will take place<br>on 6th July in Nairobi.<br><br>As you will note from the programme (<a href="http://www.eaigf.or.ke/" target="_blank">www.eaigf.or.ke</a>) we have a session<br>
during the EAIGF that speaks to our engagement with ICANN by way of<br>introduction of what ICANN is, what it does and on new gTLDs.<br><br>We intend to begin discussions on the proposed Africa strategic plan<br>during this meeting to ensure that we have multi-stakeholder consultation<br>
on identifying the current challenges, proposing possible solutions and<br>exploring how we wish to participate and contribute to the ICANN process.<br><br>We look forward to sharing the outcome of the forum with you all. We hope<br>
that the inputs will form a part of the ICANN's Strategic plan under<br>development.<br><br>Thank you and kind regards<br><br>Alice Munyua<br>Kenya<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN-44 mailing list<br>
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