[Icann-aswg] Questionnaire on ICANN.

[Pierre Chekem]

It has been argued that ICANN can be more relevant to Africa and ICANN can benefit from increased involvbement with Africa. To assis explore these, please respond to the questions
below.

1- NAME: CHEKEM Pierre

2- Country : CAMEROON

3 - Constituency: Not for profit Non Partisan organisation.

4 - What has ICANN done right in the eyes of the African community in ICAN
  The decision to take into account the dot-Africa domain linked to African Union.

5- What has ICANN not done right by the AZfrican community in Africa.
  No ICANN office is in Africa: and no communication strategy put in place to improve
the development of ICANN set of activities in African (number of registrars for example).

6 - What do you wish the most for ICANN to do in interest of Africa.

Open and office with stable staff members.  

7 - How can the African community in ICANN best help ICANN.
  African community in ICANN will help better appreciate the needs of the continent
and suggest ways in responding to them. The sustainability of any strategy concerning
the continent must take into account the participation of the African community.
African constituencies must become more pro-active in all areas of interest.

8- What are the barriers to ICANN in Africa.

 Ignorance of ICANN, poor organisation and information of constituencies.

9 - How best to improve African participation in ICANN.
   - Identify African expertise in all ICANN fields of interest and network with them.
 -Organize information, training, and facilitation campaigns with the participation
of African constituencies.
- Identify and address bottnecks that prevent the African participation in the continent
and abroad (legal, intitutional, political barriers, and cultural barriers).

Questionnaire number 2

African Strategy Working Groupp
August 2012.

Itr has been suggested that a physical presence of ICANN in Africa is important to improve
ICANN presence. To contribute in shaping how this is implemented please answer the following questions.

2 Name: CHEKEM Pierre 

3 - Country: CAMEROON.

4 - Constituency: Non Partisan not for profit organisation.

5 - Should the presence be implemented by
 -An office in Africa with staff and a work programme.

6 What are strenghts
  African members working with ICANN. Good knowledge of future ITC development in Africa.

weaknesses
- No office in Africa.

Opportunities.
- Future ITC development and good markets opportunities.

7 - How could you address the needs by country, by sub region, language groups.
Start with an office with good staffing and regional links in order to address specific
needs. Use English, French, Swahili, Arabic language and regional languages where
necessary to meet the needs.

8 - Which country would we recommend to be hadquarters of ICANN and why.
It is difficult to suggest a county. But we think putting in place a set of objective
criterias will help in the selection.

We think a Bilingual county would be an asset. Also a good number of computer
litterate will help, especially highly trained ones.
South Africa, Cameroon and Nigeria could be envisaged for future head office.

We thank you for your kind attention.

Pierre Chekem
Partnership Coordinator
tel(237) 77 77 99 62
www.partnershipcameroon.org

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