<div>Dear Dr Tarek,</div><div><br></div><span class="hps"><span class="hps">In the wake of</span> <span class="hps">Barack</span>, I would <span class="hps">tell you that,</span> the feedback t you </span><span class="hps">provide us is wanderful</span>, thank <span class="hps">for all this work</span>.<div>
<br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/15 Barrack Ong'ondo Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barrack@aftld.org" target="_blank">barrack@aftld.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Dr. Tarek,<br>
<br>
Thank you for the feedback and congratulations for on your elevation. This<br>
is good progress, well done.<br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On Sat, September 15, 2012 5:19 am, Tarek KAMEL wrote:<br>
> Hi everybody,<br>
><br>
> I have given a report this week in LA about our work in progress of our<br>
> African strategy to the ICANNs board committee on global relations BGRC<br>
> during the board retreat this week in LA.<br>
> It was well received by the board members attending the committee. I have<br>
> also spoken to many other board members here in LA about our good work<br>
> and they have been very supportive including Fadi. Ray has also been<br>
> helping in that.<br>
><br>
> Last week I was in Khartoum attending the African ministerial ICT meeting<br>
> and our work was also positively received as attached.<br>
><br>
><br>
> The following is a report about my mission to Khartoum:<br>
><br>
> - I have spoken at the ministerial meeting on behalf of Steve Crocker and<br>
> Fadi Chehade.<br>
> I have thanked the African Union for the invitation. My talk focused on<br>
> the Internet evolution in Africa, ICANNs and Afrinic role in Internet<br>
> development, the ICANNs Senegal meeting and the exchanged high level<br>
> letters, ICANNs new internationalisation plans, the work in progress of<br>
> new ICANNs strategy for Africa, Africa as a the first region that ICANN is<br>
> starting with to implement its internationalisation plans and strategies,<br>
> an invitation for wider participation in ICANNs constituencies and GAC<br>
> (noting that there will be a HLM for governments this time in Toronto.)<br>
><br>
> - I have been invited also to speak at the closing of the experts meeting<br>
> on the day before the ministerial meeting started<br>
><br>
> - The attitude of the African Union by Commisioner Elham Ibrahim and<br>
> Moctar Yedaly has been very positive towards us and they have welcome our<br>
> participation (Mike Silber was also there and he had some good<br>
> opportunties for networking). The Commissioner has mentioned ICANN three<br>
> times in her opening speech in the presence of the President of Sudan.<br>
> Her references to ICANN were in relation to the build-up of the relations<br>
> after the Senegal meeting last October and her views and expectations from<br>
> ICANN in the coming months.<br>
> After my talk there was a general welcome for the new signals about ICANNs<br>
> internationalisation plans and the new African strategy for ICANN.<br>
><br>
> - I have met briefly with Aida Bogoda from UNECA and she looks forward to<br>
> our participation in the African IGF in October and I have confirmed to<br>
> her that we will have participation from ICANN and the African Workgroup<br>
> to promote the African strategy<br>
><br>
><br>
> - I have met with the new minister in Senegal Abdou LO and he was<br>
> interested to learn about the progress since the last ICANNs meeting in<br>
> Senegal last October. He is relatively young, motivated, open minded and<br>
> he studied and lived in Germany for many years. I speak little French, he<br>
> speaks little English so we had our conversation in German. He can be a<br>
> good asset for our future African strategy implementation on a government<br>
> level.<br>
><br>
> - I also spoke with the minister of Burundi and the minister of Borkina<br>
> Fasso and they were eager to learn about ICANNs internationalisation<br>
> plans and our African strategy.<br>
><br>
><br>
> - I have spoken in details with the new Minister of ICT in Egypt, Hani<br>
> Mahmoud. He used to work for vodaphone before he was hired as the chair of<br>
> the postal authority in Egypt just before I left.<br>
><br>
> - I had brief talks with the minister of Zambia, as he is taking over the<br>
> chairmanship of the African council of ICT ministers for the next two<br>
> years. We need to keep a dialogue with them.<br>
><br>
><br>
> They all expect to see a stronger presence of ICANN in Africa on the<br>
> ground in the coming phase.<br>
> I think we have a good chance to make a difference in Africa.<br>
><br>
> I travelling a lot, Oslo, Mauritius, Khartoum, in the last weeks. This<br>
> week in LA and next week I am with Fadi and Steve Crocker in DC. Then I<br>
> have also India, Kuwait for some government meetings and the Arab IGF and<br>
> all before Toronto.<br>
> So please bear with me when I am not always fully online with you.<br>
> Please keep our good work going on.<br>
><br>
> Best regards<br>
> Tarek<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Senior Advisor to the President of ICANN<br>
> Brussels<br>
> Mobile: <a href="tel:%2B33626487835" value="+33626487835">+33626487835</a><br>
><br>
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