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

[Gabriel Ramokotjo]

Much Thanks Barrack,

Regards,

Gabriel Ramokotjo
President
Internet Society Gauteng Chapter
083 742 2005
www.isoc-gauteng.org.za

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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