[Icann-aswg] Report about my Khartoum mission and report ICANN board committee in LA

[Barrack Ong'ondo Otieno]

Dear Dr. Tarek,

Thank you for the feedback and congratulations for on your elevation. This
is good progress, well done.

Best Regards


On Sat, September 15, 2012 5:19 am, Tarek KAMEL wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have given a report this week in LA about our work in progress of our
> African strategy to the ICANNs board committee on global relations BGRC
> during the board retreat this week in LA.
> It was well received by the board members attending the committee. I have
> also spoken to many other board members here in LA about our good work
> and they have been very supportive including Fadi. Ray has also been
> helping in that.
>
> Last week I was in Khartoum attending the African ministerial ICT meeting
> and our work was also positively received as attached.
>
>
> The following is a report about my mission to Khartoum:
>
> - I have spoken at the ministerial meeting on behalf of Steve Crocker and
> Fadi Chehade.
> I have thanked the African Union for the invitation. My talk focused on
> the Internet evolution in Africa, ICANNs and Afrinic role in Internet
> development, the ICANNs Senegal meeting and the exchanged high level
> letters, ICANNs new internationalisation plans, the work in progress of
> new ICANNs strategy for Africa, Africa as a the first region that ICANN is
> starting with to implement its internationalisation plans and strategies,
> an invitation for wider participation in ICANNs constituencies and GAC
> (noting that there will be a HLM for governments this time in Toronto.)
>
> - I have been invited also to speak at the closing of the experts meeting
> on the day before the ministerial meeting started
>
> - The attitude of the African Union by Commisioner Elham Ibrahim and
> Moctar Yedaly has been very positive towards us and they have welcome our
> participation (Mike Silber was also there and he had some good
> opportunties for networking). The Commissioner has mentioned ICANN three
> times in her opening speech in the presence of the President  of Sudan.
> Her references to ICANN were in relation to the build-up of the relations
> after the Senegal meeting last October and her views and expectations from
> ICANN in the coming months.
> After my talk there was a general welcome for the new signals about ICANNs
> internationalisation plans and the new African strategy for ICANN.
>
> - I have met briefly with Aida Bogoda from UNECA and she looks forward to
> our participation in the African IGF in October and I have confirmed to
> her that we will have participation from ICANN and the African Workgroup
> to promote the African strategy
>
>
> - I have met with the new minister in Senegal Abdou LO and he was
> interested to learn about the progress since the last ICANNs meeting in
> Senegal last October. He is relatively young, motivated, open minded and
> he studied and lived in Germany for many years. I speak little French, he
> speaks little English so we had our conversation in German. He can be a
> good asset for our future African strategy implementation on a government
> level.
>
> - I also spoke with the minister of Burundi and the minister of Borkina
> Fasso  and they were eager to learn about ICANNs internationalisation
> plans and our African strategy.
>
>
> - I have spoken in details with the new Minister of ICT in Egypt, Hani
> Mahmoud. He used to work for vodaphone before he was hired as the chair of
> the postal authority in Egypt just before I left.
>
> - I had brief talks with the  minister of Zambia, as he is taking over the
> chairmanship of the African council of ICT ministers for the next two
> years. We need to keep a dialogue with them.
>
>
> They all expect to see a stronger presence of ICANN in Africa on the
> ground in the coming phase.
> I think we have a good chance to make a difference in Africa.
>
> I travelling a lot, Oslo, Mauritius, Khartoum, in the last weeks. This
> week in LA and next week I am with Fadi and Steve Crocker in DC. Then I
> have also India, Kuwait  for some government meetings and the Arab IGF and
> all before Toronto.
> So please bear with me when I am not always fully online with you.
> Please keep our good work going on.
>
> Best regards
> Tarek
>
>
>
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> Brussels
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