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

[Maye diop]

Dear Tarek,
Thank you for your report.
It s important to work at ministerial level in Africa.
Best Regards
Le 15 sept. 2012 02:20, "Tarek KAMEL" <tarek.kamel at icann.org> a écrit :
>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Senior Advisor to the President of ICANN
>>>
>>> Brussels
>>>
>>> Mobile: +33626487835
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