<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Sorry for Cross posting!<br><br></div>I am writing to share our workshop report for an event that was held at University of Dodoma, Tanzania, East Africa.<br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%">Internet Governance Youth Community
(YouthCom) workshop initiative targets to introduce the youth from various
backgrounds in Tanzania not only to ICANN but the wider Internet ecosystem with
an aim of ensuring this new audience, are prepared early enough to help them participate
effectively in the internet ecosystem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%">The overarching objectives of this workshop is to promote local
engagement of African communities in Internet Governance, create awareness
about ICANN and build capacity of African local community towards addressing
future challenge of the internet in Africa. </span></p>
<br></div>Just as a summary on our achievements:
<ul><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font:7pt "times new roman""></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">22 users contributed to ICANNWiki Swahili
Platform</span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font:7pt "times new roman""></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">312 edits were completed</span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">145 articles were translated</span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">138 newly created articles</span></li></ul>
We are committed to make Swahili Content on Internet Governance is available in the Internet and addressing the local content challenge using our own language.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">MATOGORO Jabhera<br>Assistant Lecturer & Coordinator - Microsoft Innovation Center, Tanzania<br>College of Informatics and Virtual Education<br>The University of Dodoma (<a href="http://www.udom.ac.tz" target="_blank">www.udom.ac.tz</a>)</div></div>
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