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<p>Dear Noah,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/06/2017 09:14, Noah wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:50 PM,
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<div>Hello Sunday,</div>
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This afternoon, I was privileged to lead the AfriNIC board
members to meet with the ICANN Board, led by Steve Crocker
at the ongoing ICANN meeting. The meeting centered on the
efforts of the AfriNIC Board at learning best practices,
with a view to improving our processes and accountability
to the community.<br>
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The Agenda of the meeting specifically was:<br>
1. Limits of Board Transparency and Board Confidentiality<br>
2. Management of open Board Meetings.<br>
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<div>The open board meetings are one way of demonstrating
transparency but this is normally not a one day AGMM
meeting. How we improve this going forward is of great
significant if we are to succeed in being accountable and
transparent.</div>
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<div>We need to see more mechanisms in place for instance </div>
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<div> - Board and organisation KPI's (as so many
activities happen but they are not measured to their
effectiveness)</div>
<div> - Seeking recommendations from community
on certain issues where necessary</div>
<div> - Sound strategic plans for the
organisation since today, the 4 page document still
doesn't cut it.</div>
<div> - Quarterly reports on the progress of the
organisation before even the annual reports</div>
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2. The multi-stakeholder model works<br>
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<div>That is what must prevail as its a model that saw ICANN
itself become global multistakeholder governance
organisation today.</div>
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3. Trust must be built. It does not just come<br>
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<div>More transparency especially for a Not-for-profit
public entity is what can usher in more trust from bottom
to the top.</div>
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key<br>
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<div>And leadership is all about accountability. This is
what this community seeks.</div>
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The Board is committed to ensuring that the organization
is responsive and accountable, and we do request the
cooperation of the community as we seek ways to improve
the Board/membership/Community interactions. We seek your
continued support in this regard.<br>
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<div>It's also important for the board and the entire
leadership to come to the realisation that its the
membership and the community that puts you there to lead
and manage the organisation and at any time, you can be
called out to be accountable and transparent no matter how
bad or good things might seem. If we have problems, we
should be transparent about them so that we seek solutions
together to fix them. If we succeed, we should be
transparent about our success as well.</div>
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<div>Most importantly, we seek that this words are followed
up with real action too. </div>
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Best Regards,<br>
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Sunday Folayan<br>
Chair, AFRINIC Board<br>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Noah </div>
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Thank you very much for all your comments. They will be put into
consideration moving forward.<br>
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Best Regards ....<br>
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Sunday.<br>
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