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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I trust you are staying safe and maintaining all safety precautions during this period of pandemic.  On behalf of the AFRALO Leadership (Myself, Aziz Hilali and Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong) I welcome you all to our first newsletter for the year 2021.  </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In the Q4 update I informed you that Mr Bram Fudzulani, our new Outreach and  Engagement (O/E) Co-Chair is leading the implementation of our O/E plan. I am happy to inform you that within this quarter the AFRALO leadership launched a webinar series tagged “</span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001P08gqOE5V7JUhZjfPhaQTcXGW534n0hvrLalbL6jo9sA_yjuFNkaKw6TedCI4wP-u2YjSwULCZdnyM1NyDyeol9zKfPkfstChqiaIziKeU3VEIoyPun-HxjnLo5xy1-8CxhTUINa702KIf-SIGXthNJgfzNOh9FMh-14CWKkkTF4UgkBE7lcbiEeWrJYl0xFLmBjY_AmkbLHqWdyd3gEOqpN_3-bOJAu&c=aIBYDpY4BZOL2fMlUcAiHr-4wyK5N23_LQXAEwzzOZsU3CnzreQC2A==&ch=--4xGEIPdOfMp-qrOGu3UNFBLJg_R4bYkIkVosupe0wxDh7nP0Lz8w==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(209, 109, 8); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">AFRALO Webinar series 2021</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">”. Due to the limitations in our face-to-face meetings imposed by the current health crisis, the series is to keep our community engaged, making this “online only” time more beneficial and productive for all.</span>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">AFRALO members, Tijani Ben Jemaa and Bram Fudzulani were appointed as the coordinators of the series and I would like to again thank them for serving in that role. The first of the webinar series was on the topic: “ICANN multi-stakeholder model & the increase in national legislations and regulations”, with participation from members of our community. This webinar was also an initial step into drafting the next statement for the Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN meeting. In order to ensure topics of interest to the region are covered within the webinar series, a survey was launched to get suggestions on topics from the community and a couple of topics will be identified.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The webinar series will alternate between topic-based and activity-based webinars both of which are geared towards improving capacity and participation of our members within ICANN.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">AFRALO participated in various sessions during the  ICANN70 Community Virtual Meeting, and as it is our custom, we also held our Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN Meeting where we finalized a statement around the topic titled “ICANN multi-stakeholder model (MSM) and the increase in national legislation and regulations”. The session was on 25 March and featured various guest speakers to include board members led by board members from Africa, ICANN President and CEO, ALAC Chair and other experts in the field of multistakeholderism.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I look forward to continued participation of the community in the various activities and events that will be happening during the year. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I encourage us to continue to abide by the necessary preventive measures against COVID-19 and I am certain we shall come out of this even stronger as we look forward to counting our gains in this year 2021. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(209, 109, 8); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">On behalf of the AFRALO Leadership, I wish the entire community an engaging virtual year ahead!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Editor-in-Chief: </span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Seun OJEDEJI </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Deputy Editor-in-Chief: </span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Aziz HILALI</span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Managing Editor | Secretariat</span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">: Abdeljalil Bachar BONG</span>
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<div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Pierre Dandjinou,ICANN Regional Vice President, GSE Africa </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(209, 109, 8); font-weight: bold;">African Regional At-Large Organization: Engaging Africa for Development</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AFRALO is the home of the individual Internet user community for the African region. It provides news, key resources and interactive information sharing tools for individuals and end-user groups in the African region who are interested in ICANN and in shaping the future of the Internet. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AFRALO aims to: </span></div>
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<li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Help ensure that its members will actively encourage more direct participation by end users </span></li>
<li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build Internet policy making capacity in the region </span></li>
<li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Reach out to Internet users on the issues in the scope of ICANN </span></li>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Represent users’ interests and defining public interest aspects of Internet governance with specific focus on the areas of </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">privacy, transparency, and accountability </span>
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<li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strengthen consumer protection in ICANN policies</span></li>
<li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Identify social impacts of technical infrastructure design </span></li>
<li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Take cultural diversity into account when formulating technical standards (e.g. IDN implementation) </span></li>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AFRALO currently consist of </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001P08gqOE5V7JUhZjfPhaQTcXGW534n0hvrLalbL6jo9sA_yjuFNkaK_ipBuoLq4AW76pxB5PaUS2YWasEyB7OUmSODpN5kTUV-OTvTZdPgCjiy83lVg33ZFoDryAhIKkhUIrjo2sgkXz1BYDWBB-VRPFQB4BrvkEapZMlGwdrwgg=&c=aIBYDpY4BZOL2fMlUcAiHr-4wyK5N23_LQXAEwzzOZsU3CnzreQC2A==&ch=--4xGEIPdOfMp-qrOGu3UNFBLJg_R4bYkIkVosupe0wxDh7nP0Lz8w==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(209, 109, 8); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">69 ALSes</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> located in 32 countries and territories, as well as </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001P08gqOE5V7JUhZjfPhaQTcXGW534n0hvrLalbL6jo9sA_yjuFNkaK0kdM7IhgS2hWSkxXC4pqJ6M45TqhIDR6_CYov08wbNk1h9SzPxWlG6ko5cZuyAxFciORBuo-Z7Vsw3d_NTRRWqy6qeyYe2KTQbqO24XuDvkzq4jt3GMIB0=&c=aIBYDpY4BZOL2fMlUcAiHr-4wyK5N23_LQXAEwzzOZsU3CnzreQC2A==&ch=--4xGEIPdOfMp-qrOGu3UNFBLJg_R4bYkIkVosupe0wxDh7nP0Lz8w==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(209, 109, 8); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">16 Individual members</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and 3 Observers. </span>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To learn more about the ongoing work of AFRALO, you are welcome to check out the AFRALO </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001P08gqOE5V7JUhZjfPhaQTcXGW534n0hvrLalbL6jo9sA_yjuFNkaK_ipBuoLq4AWvnKHbdRo6DoluzKm8UmcnsHpOwJvxgC926rKoB3U6cDu4xYEbbyoMsluxC3Wa0eOuvVFz2kHoFr9OXNfaCSwv2hV7Tt-QXduCFam2Wqrvag=&c=aIBYDpY4BZOL2fMlUcAiHr-4wyK5N23_LQXAEwzzOZsU3CnzreQC2A==&ch=--4xGEIPdOfMp-qrOGu3UNFBLJg_R4bYkIkVosupe0wxDh7nP0Lz8w==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(209, 109, 8); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">workspace</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pierre Dandjinou, Regional Vice President, Global</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Stakeholder Engagement Africa</span>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">While 2021 looks promising, you will agree with me that the Covid-19 Pandemic continues to weigh down on the overall engagement landscape and feasibility of return to normal physical engagement modes. This is why the Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) Africa team have opted to further explore other options to deepen our ongoing engagement efforts as the prevailing conditions persist. This means that our efforts would continue to be limited to what we can do and achieve online. In this regard therefore, our capacity building as well as informational focused webinars continue to be prioritized.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">For example, in January this year, the GSE Africa team hosted a webinar with the Association of African Universities - AAU. The main objective of this webinar was to introduce the membership of the AAU to two thematic programs at ICANN org, the Identifier Technologies Health Indicators (ITHI) and the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) projects. The intention was to demonstrate to the Universities, especially their ICT technical staff why and how they can participate in both projects.  The recordings of this webinar have now been made</span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001P08gqOE5V7JUhZjfPhaQTcXGW534n0hvrLalbL6jo9sA_yjuFNkaKw6TedCI4wP-Xcf7RSEFG2XuFQSDkgOvepQsAWe0pIy1Oa8Jx-ekRXNTm6ZB4MeQlkqopKfti6j4HTfZxVfbiuRh-H6F5efO26xdY7lgSr52SqXfLlbI6l0wYOQ-Qd5syJTm4ghuC858kyBvkPoBRjw-5zZf2eF579UA6q_S54SXp_dma8Lggj6qs2zpgkkUwJ6J8TFHJnFsE9JMFdhDAtU=&c=aIBYDpY4BZOL2fMlUcAiHr-4wyK5N23_LQXAEwzzOZsU3CnzreQC2A==&ch=--4xGEIPdOfMp-qrOGu3UNFBLJg_R4bYkIkVosupe0wxDh7nP0Lz8w==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(209, 109, 8); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;"> available here</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> for your ease of reference and follow-up.</span>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Having reviewed as a team our overall engagement agenda over the last eight years, especially looking at our banquet of events, both capacity building initiatives and engagement missions, it occurs to us that we still have an opportunity to further streamline, refine and prioritize some of the activities we have been involved in till now for a better impact. A platform to further collate, update, follow-up and synchronize the work done by our community from Africa as well as get direct updates and feedback from ICANN org staff. We therefore propose to pilot a regional event convened under the title “ Africa Engagement Forum” slated for May 2021. Details on the agenda and dates will be shared on a later date.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Thank you, my name is Mohamed Elbashir, I joined ICANN 9 months ago as a Universal Acceptance (UA) program manager. I have been an active participant in the ICANN community for many years, including serving in different ICANN constituencies. I was a ccNSO council member representing Africa as the ccTLD manager of .SD, At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) member besides being one of the founders and a former Chair of AFRALO.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In my role, I  support the Universal Acceptance (UA) activities undertaken by the community and ICANN Org. Advance and promote the UA of domain names and email addresses through research, multi-stakeholder engagements, and through establishing national and regional UA initiatives.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The African Community within ICANN or AfrICANN is unique, in every ICANN meeting or event the AfrICANN members meet to network, coordinate, and discuss a topic of interest for the African Internet Community within ICANN. AfrICANN is a big group of friends and colleagues working together for one goal which is to develop the Internet in Africa. Africa is one of the Universal Acceptance focus regions and I am working with different multi-stakeholders from the region to establish a Pan-African Universal Acceptance initiative that will work to promote UA readiness in the continent.</span></div>
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