<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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<br>below.<br><br>1- NAME: CHEKEM Pierre<br><br>2- Country : CAMEROON<br><br>3 - Constituency: Not for profit Non Partisan organisation.<br><br>4 - What has ICANN done right in the eyes of the African community in ICAN<br> The decision to take into account the dot-Africa domain linked to African Union.<br><br>5- What has ICANN not done right by the AZfrican community in Africa.<br> No ICANN office is in Africa: and no communication strategy put in place to improve<br>the development of ICANN set of activities in African (number of registrars for example).<br><br>6 - What do you wish the most for ICANN to do in interest of Africa.<br><br>Open and office with stable staff
members. <br><br>7 - How can the African community in ICANN best help ICANN.<br> African community in ICANN will help better appreciate the needs of the continent<br>and suggest ways in responding to them. The sustainability of any strategy concerning<br>the continent must take into account the participation of the African community.<br>African constituencies must become more pro-active in all areas of interest.<br><br>8- What are the barriers to ICANN in Africa.<br><br> Ignorance of ICANN, poor organisation and information of constituencies.<br><br>9 - How best to improve African participation in ICANN.<br> - Identify African expertise in all ICANN fields of interest and network with them.<br> -Organize information, training, and facilitation campaigns with the participation<br>of African constituencies.<br>- Identify and address bottnecks that prevent the African participation in the continent<br>and abroad (legal,
intitutional, political barriers, and cultural barriers).<br><br>Questionnaire number 2<br><br>African Strategy Working Groupp<br>August 2012.<br><br>Itr has been suggested that a physical presence of ICANN in Africa is important to improve<br>ICANN presence. To contribute in shaping how this is implemented please answer the following questions.<br><br>2 Name: CHEKEM Pierre <br><br>3 - Country: CAMEROON.<br><br>4 - Constituency: Non Partisan not for profit organisation.<br><br>5 - Should the presence be implemented by<br> -An office in Africa with staff and a work programme.<br><br>6 What are strenghts<br> African members working with ICANN. Good knowledge of future ITC development in Africa.<br><br>weaknesses<br>- No office in Africa.<br><br>Opportunities.<br>- Future ITC development and good markets opportunities.<br><br>7 - How could you address the needs by country, by sub region, language groups.<br>Start with an office with good
staffing and regional links in order to address specific<br>needs. Use English, French, Swahili, Arabic language and regional languages where<br>necessary to meet the needs.<br><br>8 - Which country would we recommend to be hadquarters of ICANN and why.<br>It is difficult to suggest a county. But we think putting in place a set of objective<br>criterias will help in the selection.<br><br>We think a Bilingual county would be an asset. Also a good number of computer<br>litterate will help, especially highly trained ones.<br>South Africa, Cameroon and Nigeria could be envisaged for future head office.<br><br>We thank you for your kind attention.<br><br>Pierre Chekem<br>Partnership Coordinator<br>tel(237) 77 77 99 62<br>www.partnershipcameroon.org<br><br>============================================================== <br>-<br>9 <br></td></tr></table>