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

[Mouhamet Diop]

Hi Tarek,

I was good to see you again during this retreat in Mauritius.

Very Full Agenda. Hope CEO, board and staff will actively help you achieve
(y)our goals for Africa.

Warm regards

Mouhamet Diop

2012/9/15 Tarek KAMEL <tarek.kamel at icann.org>

> 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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