<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">I hope this email finds you well. Please see attached a draft statement for the upcoming joint AFRALO/AfrICANN meeting scheduled for 1 November 2017 in Abu Dhabi, during the ICANN 60 meeting. The topic selected was General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) </font><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">(Regulation (EU) 2016/679). </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">As agreed during the call for topics, a drafting team was constituted to write the statement. Please take a look at the document attached and get back to us in the next couple of days to allow us compile final comments/edits as well as translate the document into French. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">We would like to thank Barrack Otieno, Ali Hussein, Juliet Maina, Tijani Ben Jemaa, Seun Ojedeji, Aziz Hilali and all the people who contributed to drafting this statement. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Kind regards, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Sarah</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>