[AFRI-Discuss] AFRALO General Assembly and RoP Review Update

Dave Kissoondoyal dkissoondoyal at gmail.com
Wed May 31 14:51:28 UTC 2023


Dear Pastor Peters,

Thank-you for your constructive remarks and I am sure that the chairman 
will act on it.

Thanks and kind regards

Dave


On 31/05/2023 17:58, Peters Omoragbon via AFRI-Discuss wrote:
> Dear All.
> I observe an improvement in the current draft, but I have the 
> following comments that needs to be made for a further review.
>
> Day One
>
> First Session
>
> Seun will moderate first session, give welcome remarks, introduce and 
> and set the ground rule item 3 and give the closing remarks
> As Chairman,  Seun should not moderate because he has official roles 
> as in Welcome Address and closing remarks as Host.
> Anyone else can moderate and perform item 3.
>
> Session 2
> Seun moderating, and gives the closing remarks.
>
> The role of the moderator should be assigned to someone else. While 
> someone  gives the closing remarks .
>
> My observations are without prejudice to the capability of Seun to do 
> the job. But as a mark of inclusiveness of all members.  Crowding 
> roles to just current and past leadership of AFRALO to me is defeating 
> that purpose. There is a lot of room to make leaders have a sense of 
> belonging. One role per Any leader is not a bad idea
>
> That is my take on this.  You may hate me or like me for it. It is an 
> objective assessment  it is not about anyone of us. It is about AFRALO.
> See you all in Accra by His grace.
> Pastor Pet
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2023, 14:25 Olévié A. A Kouami via AFRI-Discuss, 
> <afri-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for the feedback, dear @Remmy Nweke <mailto:remmyn at gmail.com>
>     +1
>     Olévié A. A. Kouami
>
>
>     Le mer. 31 mai 2023, 10:13, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>         Good day Mr Chairman
>
>         I have gone through the supposed final agenda only to discover
>         that in item 5 where issues affecting AFRALO Newsletter was to
>         be addressed that the names of those speaking there namely
>         Remmy Nweke and Olivier were missing with some notes which
>         suggests intension to shutdown that session.
>
>         For the records, that session was proposed by us to enable the
>         team address issues of lack of optimisation by members and
>         contribution to production thereof.
>
>         You are aware of the challenges the team is facing including
>         but not limited to lack of motivation and optimal translations
>         among others. This session is an opportunity to recommit the
>         contact persons directly and take feedbacks as well.
>
>         Therefore, I wil suggest that the names of the speakers like
>         in other sessions and as confirmed via Prof Aziz email be
>         reflected.
>
>         Secondly that the note also appended on that session be
>         espurged to afford it run its cause despite that the time is
>         just 20mins.
>
>         Thanks for your understanding.
>         Remmy Nweke
>
>
>
>         On Tue, 30 May 2023, 17:56 Seun Ojedeji via AFRI-Discuss,
>         <afri-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
>
>             Dear Members,
>
>
>             As you are aware, the Leadership of AFRALO set up an
>             Organising committee for our Upcoming General Assembly
>             which will hold from 24th to 25th of July 2023 in Accra,
>             Ghana. The committee has been meeting and planning towards
>             the event. You can learn more about the members and work
>             of the committee at the link below:
>
>
>             https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/AFRALO+General+Assembly+2023
>             <https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/AFRALO+General+Assembly+2023>
>
>
>             In furtherance of its work, the committee put up the draft
>             Agenda for the GA to members comments and on behalf of the
>             committee i like to thank everyone for their contributions
>             and comments to the program. The draft and the comments
>             thereof can be found at the google docs link below:
>
>
>             https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L7d9rG2Yl4-wNQRXn-5ST9ege1aswdY-/edit
>             <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L7d9rG2Yl4-wNQRXn-5ST9ege1aswdY-/edit>
>
>
>             I am pleased to inform you that the  committee has now
>             finalized the Agenda after considering all the comments
>             provided and the final Agenda is hereby attached for your
>             information.
>
>
>             On a related note, the Leadership of AFRALO considered the
>             comments that were made with regards to review of our
>             rules of procedure and we are hereby proposing a 2 phase
>             approach to reviewing the RoP, the first phase will
>             address the specific aspect of our RoP to bring some
>             clarity certain section of the current rules of procedure.
>             The first phase of the review shall focus on the following:
>
>             -Provide clarity on the nomination process including who
>             can be nominated and who can nominate
>
>             -Provide further clarity on the ALS accreditation process
>             including timelines
>
>             - Address any other editorial changes that could make the
>             RoP much comprehensible
>
>
>             The report of phase 1 and draft RoP shall then be
>             presented at our upcoming GA for members consideration and
>             approval. Feedback shall also be provided by members on
>             further improvements that can be made to serve as input
>             for phase 2 review of the RoP.
>
>
>             The Leadership hereby task the  existing working committee
>             see:
>             https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/AFRALO+WG+on+the+review+of+the+Operating+Principles++2020-+Membership+section
>             <https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/AFRALO+WG+on+the+review+of+the+Operating+Principles++2020-+Membership+section>, 
>             that reviewed the individual membership section of the RoP
>             Co-Chiared by Isaac Maposa and Abdeldjalil Bachar to
>             review the rules of procedure based on the scope stated
>             above. As usual, the committee should reconfirm its
>             membership and ensure to work expeditiously towards the
>             delivery of the task assigned to them, especially the
>             phase 1 of the review which needs to be ready at least 1
>             week before the General Assembly.
>
>
>             Finally, I call on the community to continue to contribute
>             our individual part to positively improve AFRALO, At-Large
>             and ICANN as a whole.
>
>
>             Long Live AFRALO!
>
>
>             Regards
>             Chair, AFRALO
>             -- 
>             ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 /Seun Ojedeji,
>                 Mobile: +2348035233535/
>
>                     Bringing another down does not take you up - think
>                     about your action!
>
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