<div dir="auto"><div>Dear AfrICANN-ers,<br><br>Hope this email finds you in good health!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please see my comments inline...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 30 avr. 2021 15:16, Bob Ochieng <<a href="mailto:omondibob@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">omondibob@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px">Dear </font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px">We are happy to share this announcement with you. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px"></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi Bob,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for sharing, brother!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px">The Africa Engagement Forum will be dedicated to bringing
the African community together and supporting their work within ICANN. </font></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">...if i get it well, this is the goal of that forum.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px">The
forum will include active working groups and policy development processes for
the Domain Name System (DNS), related to ICANN and its constituencies. It will
also provide ICANN org with the opportunity to have a dedicated platform to
gather, follow-up, and coordinate the work being done with the regional
community</font></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">i hope this will also include building local</div><div dir="auto"> infrastructures :-/ </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">...btw, what are the problems this regional </div><div dir="auto">forum wants to solve? are their roots identified?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As i remember, UN SDG#9 [1] is about infrastructures;</div><div dir="auto">...maybe ICANN should start by financially </div><div dir="auto">supporting a regional initiative such as this [2] </div><div dir="auto">one :-/</div><div dir="auto">__</div><div dir="auto">[1]: <<a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal9</a>></div><div dir="auto">[2]: <<a href="https://afrinic.net/root-server-copy#about" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://afrinic.net/root-server-copy#about</a>></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px"><u></u><u></u></font></p>
</div><div><font face="Times"><span style="font-size:14px">Please find the full announcement an registration details in the link below:</span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-launches-the-africa-engagement-forum-supporting-communitys-work-in-the-region-30-4-2021-en" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-launches-the-africa-engagement-forum-supporting-communitys-work-in-the-region-30-4-2021-en</a> </font></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It looks like a regular forum...isn't it?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">...my hope is that it helps to cover real African's </div><div dir="auto">needs.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Could someone, please, help me to better </div><div dir="auto">understand the strategy behind?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have a blessed monday!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Shalom,</div><div dir="auto">--sb.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div>
<font face="Times" style="font-size:14px">Thank you.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size:14px">Bob.</font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>[...]</blockquote></div></div></div>