<div dir="auto">Dear Pierre,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just to thank you for looking into how this community can make the most of the remote based meeting. AFRALO will be available to support on this and do kindly keep us posted and let us know how we may be able to help and contribute our part.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As to the hubs it's something worth trying out, I know that igf hubs worked well in the past and I recall ICANN has tried to use some form of hub in the past as well. I think they can be planned for main cities in our region and our ALS spread can be leveraged upon in this regard.<br><br>Regards</div><div dir="auto">Seun</div><div dir="auto">AFRALO Chair<br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Sent from my mobile<br>Kindly excuse brevity and typos</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 21 Feb 2020, 16:34 Pierre Dandjinou, <<a href="mailto:pierre.dandjinou@icann.org">pierre.dandjinou@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">While awaiting for more details on the ICANN first ever remote public meeting, could we share any ideas on possible ways to mitigate the adverse impact on participation from Africa?
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<p class="MsoNormal">The GSE Africa team will be happy to support.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AFRI-Discuss <<a href="mailto:afri-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">afri-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> on behalf of Fatimata Seye Sylla <<a href="mailto:fsylla@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">fsylla@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 11:25 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Jacob Odame-Baiden <<a href="mailto:odamyte@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">odamyte@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [AFRI-Discuss] ICANN to Hold First-Ever Remote Public Meeting<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the update. It would be good to see the impact on participation from our region.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 à 09:45, Jacob Odame-Baiden <<a href="mailto:odamyte@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">odamyte@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 07:18 Seun Ojedeji, <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ICANN Board has decided not to hold a face 2 face meeting in Cancun instead the first remote based public meeting will be held.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">LOS ANGELES – 19 February 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (</span>ICANN<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">)
today announced that its ICANN67 Public Meeting, which was to be held in Cancún, Mexico, will now be held via remote participation-only. This decision was made as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, considered a public health emergency of international concern
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Kindly excuse brevity and typos<u></u><u></u></p>
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