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<span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Hello,</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><div dir="auto" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I fully support Fatimata's nomination for the Co-Chair position in this sub-commttee. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">She has skills and experience to<span style="font-size:12.8px"> deserve this position.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Best Regards</span></div>
<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-08-03 18:16 GMT+00:00 Fatimata Seye Sylla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fsylla@gmail.com" target="_blank">fsylla@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you Dave for nominating me as the Co-Chair of At-Large
<span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Outreach and Engagement</span>
Subcommittee.<div><br></div><div>I accept this nomination with gratitude and I commit to serve my community as much as I can.</div><div><br></div><div> I will share my EOI today.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Fatimata</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2018-08-03 17:48 GMT+00:00 Dave Kissoondoyal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@igf-mu.org" target="_blank">dave@igf-mu.org</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_8991012617117245918m_-7745602050704262761WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear All,<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I would like to nominate Fatimata Seye Sylla for the Co-chair of the ALAC Sub-Committee on Outreach and Engagement (O&E) <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fatimata is well known in the community and whatever I write on her is not enough. She has all the qualities to be a very good co-chair and make us proud.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">She </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> is the director of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">Senegal</span></a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_Freedom_Initiative&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Digital Freedom Initiative (page does not exist)" target="_blank"><span style="color:#a55858;text-decoration:none">Digital Freedom Initiative</span></a>,</span><sup id="m_8991012617117245918m_-7745602050704262761cite_ref-OSIRIS_1-0"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimata_Seye_Sylla#cite_note-OSIRIS-1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">[1]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> a council member for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_and_Open_Source_Software_Foundation_for_Africa&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (page does not exist)" target="_blank"><span style="color:#a55858;text-decoration:none">Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa</span></a>, and the Senegal National Coordinator of the African Civil Society for the Information Society. She is a former member of the At-Large Advisory Committee for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" title="ICANN" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">ICANN</span></a>, where she represented Senegal, and advocated there for greater involvement of the developing world with Internet governance. She also served on the board of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA" title="CATIA" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">CATIA</span></a>(Catalyzing Access To ICTS in Africa) initiative,</span><sup id="m_8991012617117245918m_-7745602050704262761cite_ref-ICANN_2-0"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimata_Seye_Sylla#cite_note-ICANN-2" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">[2]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> a program that worked to support ICT initiatives and their directors across African countries.</span><sup id="m_8991012617117245918m_-7745602050704262761cite_ref-3"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimata_Seye_Sylla#cite_note-3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">[3]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;line-height:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Best known for championing the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology" title="Information and communications technology" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">information and communications technology</span></a> (ICT) in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Senegal" title="Education in Senegal" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">Senegalese education system</span></a>; Seye Sella began the first nationwide program to introduce ICT in Senegalese schools. She has also worked as an Internet access advocate with the United Nations, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panos_Network" title="Panos Network" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">Panos Network</span></a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Development_Research_Centre" title="International Development Research Centre" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">International Development Research Centre</span></a>. Her activism in Senegal has also included work with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Society" title="Internet Society" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">Internet Society</span></a> and founding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OSIRIS_(Senegal)&action=edit&redlink=1" title="OSIRIS (Senegal) (page does not exist)" target="_blank"><span style="color:#a55858;text-decoration:none">OSIRIS</span></a>, a pro-ICT initiative.</span><sup id="m_8991012617117245918m_-7745602050704262761cite_ref-ICANN_2-1"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimata_Seye_Sylla#cite_note-ICANN-2" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">[2]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;line-height:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Fatimata was educated at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Le_Havre" title="University of Le Havre" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">University of Le Havre</span></a>, where she earned a degree in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">computer science</span></a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CESAG&action=edit&redlink=1" title="CESAG (page does not exist)" target="_blank"><span style="color:#a55858;text-decoration:none">CESAG</span></a> Dakar, where she earned a degree in Management; and MIT, where she earned a Master of Science.</span><sup id="m_8991012617117245918m_-7745602050704262761cite_ref-ICANN_2-2"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimata_Seye_Sylla#cite_note-ICANN-2" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">[2]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> Her writing includes analysis of the difference between boys and girls in how they use ICT and development of methods for attracting more young women to technology and fields where they are underrepresented. These include properly training women and girls via the education system, encouraging women to build websites, involving the government and policymakers, and having telecommunications companies provide discounts as an incentive for women.</span><sup id="m_8991012617117245918m_-7745602050704262761cite_ref-4"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimata_Seye_Sylla#cite_note-4" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0b0080;text-decoration:none">[4]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please support me in my nomination.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks and best regards<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dave Kissoondoyal<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">President<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Internet Governance Forum Mauritius<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><br></div></div>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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