<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Pierre,</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks for your e-mail! It's great to see ICANN finally start turning words into action!</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have two suggestions for now. I suggest you, as soon as possible, sort out the matter of the Web site (</font><a href="http://www.africanncommunity.org"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">www.africanncommunity.org</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) you mentioned in your e-mail. The address resolves to the AfriNIC site, and I suggest this be changed. I would infact go further, and have the Web site hosted on the ICANN Web site as a third-level domain (e.g. <a href="http://Africann.icann.org">Africann.icann.org</a>, <span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#000000">ŕ la <a href="http://gacweb.icann.org">gacweb.icann.org</a>) to better present it as an ICANN endeavor. It would also be a good idea to have the mailing list set up on the ICANN server.</font></span></font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I also suggest that you consider partnering with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and African chambers of commerce to implement the idea to have an incubator to encourage young entrepreneurs to enter the DNS industry. ICC is already active in ICANN, and I think a partnership with them would be a natural. I also suggest you issue a call for expressions of interest from various countries and communities interested in participating in the incubator program. This way, you can evaluate potential countries willing to participate on the basis of how much (effort and resources) they are willing to commit to the program. This approach, in my mind, would be the best way to build a strong partnership program that has real ownership in African.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That's about all that comes to my mind now. Congratulations on the launch of this important initiative, and do count on my full support for its implementation.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Katim</font></span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Dandjinou Pierre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pdandjinou@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdandjinou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br></div>I hope this finds you well in the new year! My seasons greetings for a most prosperous 2013 to all..<br>
<br></div>Kindly find attached for your information and dissemination in your networks, an update on the Africa strategy.<br>
<br></div>Basically, we have a set of projects/activities which cover the rest of FY13, ie, till June 2013; we plan to have more resources for the strategy as of FY14 when new hires (area managers, ICANN Ambassadors,,) will certainly occur.<br>
<br></div><div>I look forward to your support through this exercise.<br></div><div><br></div>Warm regards<br>!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Pierre<br>
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