[Icann-aswg] Mauritous agenda and other issues

[Nii Quaynor]

Hi Tarek,

Thanks for your feedback. 

The ASWG expected and anticipate that following normal procedure for working groups in ICANN that after the strategy report is submitted on September 30 to ICANN there shall be open forums and comment periods organized. In that context ICANN is free to schedule public sessions/panels at Toronto meeting as you decide and that will not directly be in the purview of ASWG

So, my suggestion on this is that you follow ICANN's wish but the ASWG will only have its inputs discussed at the retreat on 27-28 August before which it will be improper according to our procedures to make commitments

As you know the ASWG committed to present its recommended plan and all documentation to ICANN on September 30. Thereafter the process is owned by ICANN as a whole

On other issues, I have spoken to Palesa who is awaiting administrative approval and I am reaching out to Mouhamet to determine his readiness 

Best regards and happy Eid al-Fitr
Nii

On Aug 19, 2012, at 22:27, Tarek KAMEL <tarek.kamel at icann.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi Nii,
> 
> How are you all doing?
> Concerning the attached issue of the panel in Toronto, the ICANN internal team informed me that the agenda in Toronto is getting full and the deadline for submitting proposals is getting close on August 24th. 
> So let us please draft something as a first proposal for the sesion and submit it before this Friday to reserve the slot. This is what I meant by saying before that Latin Americans and other regions are already reserving their slots.
> As I said before, we can later make our modifications in topics and speakers.
> On another note, the internal travel team at ICANN informed me that mouhamed diop and palesa did not yet contact them for their final reservations for Mauritius. I tried to contact them.
> I hope they would still be able to join us.
> 
> Awaiting your response
> 
> Tarek  
> Senior Advisor to the President of ICANN
> Brussels 
> Mobile: +33626487835
> 
> On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:47 PM, "Nii Quaynor" <nquaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tarek,
>> 
>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 17:11, Tarek KAMEL <tarek.kamel at icann.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear everybody,
>>> 
>>> How are you all doing, I hope all right.
>>> 
>>> - I am writing to you to followup on the agenda of Mauritius, we need to discuss it. Is there a draft?
>>> 
>> The draft agenda under discussion is:
>> - Introducing ICANN's strategic plan
>> - African needs as expressed in the survey 
>> - facts on African situation within ICANN operations
>> - Africa and ICANN : priorities for a win win relationship
>> - outlining the Africa - ICANN strategy for 2012-2015
>> -rôles and responsibilities
>> - way forward and presentation 
>> - Conclusion
>> 
>>> - what about the questionnaire that was sent out, any feedback?
>>> 
>> 
>> The questionnaire analysis will be discussed in Mauritius
>> 
>>> - we need to submit a proposal for the presentation of our african strategy in Toronto.
>> 
>> That's a commitment which the ASWG intends to fulfill 
>> 
>>> The CEO will speak about it in his opening remarks, but we need to have a separate panel or session to present it in some more details. Latin America is also trying to come up with a session for a presentation to show their work in progress for their new strategy (as supposed).
>> 
>> We are not looking at other regions at the moment. 
>> 
>> |Should we have a main panel or just a |session? I think a panel should be |suitable?
>>> 
>>> How many speakers do we propose? We can just have now a preliminary proposal and change later. Just give me your ideas and I will draft something.
>>> 
>> The ASWG will to discuss these and other related issues at the retreat and develop a report to present to you at ICANN
>> 
>>> - my last comment is related to the event later this month in Johannesburg about peering .....
>>> It would be useful if maybe Palesa would attend and make some networking and give us some
>>> feedback
>>> 
>>> Please keep in contact 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>> Best
>> Nii
>>> Tarek Kamel
>>> Senior Advisor to the President of ICANN
>>> Brussels 
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