[AFRI-Discuss] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Overview of Africa sessions during ICANN 52 meeting in Singapore

[Barrack Otieno]

Dear Members,

You are encouraged to participate in this meetings remotely if you
will not make it to Singapore.

Best Regards

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yaovi Atohoun <yaovito at yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:12:12 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Overview of Africa sessions during ICANN
52 meeting in Singapore
To: "africann at afrinic.net" <africann at afrinic.net>

Hi all,
 ICANN's 52nd PublicMeeting is taking place in Singapore from 8 -12
February at the Raffles CityConvention Centre, Strategicallylocated in
the heart of Singapore. This meeting comes at a critical
timeespecially considering the recent developments since the historic
NTIA announcement to transition stewardship of the IANAfunctions to
the multistakeholder community way back on March 4, 2014. Asusual, the
ICANN Africa team will also be hosting not one, but two
criticalmeetings during ICANN 52 namely: 1)   Africa Strategy 2016 –
2020As you mayrecall, in November 2014, and as a response to requests
fromthe African community to further review and evolve the Africa
Strategy and makeit more responsive to Africa while aligning it to the
new ICANN 2016 – 2020Strategic Plan, The ICANN African team convened a
special consultative sessionwith the community during AFRINIC 21 in
Mauritius. This meeting was attended by representativesfrom SO / AC
leaders, AFNOG, AFRINIC, AFTLD, GAC, AFRALO, AFICTA, NEPAD andAfrican
Registrars associations who came up with a reviewed draft0 of the
Africa Strategic Plan ver 2.0 (2016 - 2020). This draft iscurrently
under public comments and the session scheduled for Tue,10 February
2015 - 11:15 to 12:45 SGT will be used to present the newplan for
final inputs before approval and adoption by the community. 2)
Enhanced Engagement With AfricaOne of theoutstanding challenges
observed by the community is the limited meaningful andconsistent
participation of the African community in most SupportingOrganizations
and Advisory Committees in ICANN and the wider IG ecosystemespecially
by governments. Africa’s is yet to make her voice and influenceheard
in the global policy making processes on issues affecting the
Internetand there is need to proactively and progressively change this
scenario. In thisregard, the Africa Strategy Review team again sitting
alongside AFRINIC 21meeting deliberated and came up with a list of
four projects expected toenhance ICANN’s Engagement in Africa leading
to ICANN 55 meeting in MarrakechMorocco. These special projects
focusing on reaching out mainly to African governmentsand regulators
include: a)    Activeparticipation in African regional and continental
ICT ministerial meetingsb)   ICANNHigh Level Governmental Meeting
(HLGM), During ICANN 55c)    NewGenProgram during ICANN 55d)
Workshopfor Africa Telecom regulators during ICANN 55 The ICANNAfrica
team has organized a briefing session scheduled for Wed, 11 February
2015 - 10:30 to 11:45 SGT to share withyou details of these projects
and seek your further input. We take thisopportunity to welcome you,
our community, to these 2 Africa sessions as weendeavor to deliver
collectively on the Africa Strategy. We shall also provideremote
participation details for both sessions as well as share
recordingsafter the meeting.
Thanks
Yaovi




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