<p dir="ltr">Dear Thato, <br>
This is an excellent idea and thank you elaborating on the idea. I had read about it in passing but now I can see a clearer picture. Africa can make do with this medium, as you said we can start online radio and in no time move to the conventional radio. It will help increase African audience participation in ICANN and other IG platforms.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I am committed and willing to lend my resources to the cause.</p>
<p dir="ltr">All the best,<br>
Benjamin</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 2, 2018, 10:36 PM Thato Mfikwe <<a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear colleagues,<br><br></div>As some of you may already know, NCUC is planning a session during AIS 2018 and I was thinking of bringing a new tool that will help NCUC members engaged in community and ICANN activities. I have spoken aboout this with few members including those who attended the last meeting and now need to obtain the feedback from NCUC Africa so that we can take the idea to the wider NCUC mailing list for adoption and comment. I believe NCUC radio will grow the community of NCUC members and activate existing memebrs who find it difficult to participate within ICANN or NCUC.<br><br></div>I therefore request for your input and comment on the idea below, to see how we can collectively make this happen. especially in regard to:<br><br></div>1. How we can ensure that the online radio is as interactive, engaging and resourceful as possible.<br><br></div>2. How can we contribute to the content that will be hosted on the online radio stations.<br><br></div>3. Obtaining volunteers that will feed the station with information and some to deal with programming aspects of the radio station.<br></div><br>4. What other alternatives, ideas or suggestions can we incorporate use to develop this much needed platform to engage the NCUC community within Africa, while creating an enabling environment for the African community to participate in ICANN and the wider IG fora.<br><br></div><b>NCUC Radio Synopsis</b><br><br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_-1374631571188856814gmail-docs-internal-guid-f4fc6c8b-e888-fd51-13c7-2b728404d454"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NCUC Online Radio Station is an internet radio station that will be publicly accessible online via the World Wide Web, planned to bevpiloted at the African Internet Summit 2018 with a possible launch at any furuture ICANN meeting.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The mandate of NCUC Online Radio Station will be to provide a voice to the community, individuals and civic society around globe starting in Africa.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NCUC Radio Station will have a unique sound while NCUC Online Radio Shows will have diverse programming and feature various types of Internet Governance & Policy topics and discussions.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This Online Radio will target individuals and non-profit organizations involved in civil liberties and human rights, Internet freedom, consumer protection, education, research, development and many other areas of public policy advocacy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The programming will be hosted and produced by NCUC memebrs and strive to be an intergenerational social space for all members of the show to engage with each other and members of their constituencies. As part of this mandate NCUC Online Radio Show will provide program with free community meeting and engagement space.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As we collectively advocate for protection of the global public sphere against excessive intellectual property restrictions and work for policies that promote socio-economic growth and development in all areas of the world Multilingual Internet.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The show will enable individuals, Civic Society, Users and Non-Profit Organization to engage each other as NCUC seeks to ensure that commercial interests do not override the interests of non-profits and ordinary users and support a competitive domain name industry that offers Internet users innovation, quality and affordability.</span></p>
<br></div><b>Proposed activities of NCUC radio</b><br></div>- Live broadcast at NCUC and ICANN events (regionally and globally): mainly discussions around ICANN PDP, strategies, objectives and the wider IG topical issues, development and updates<br></div>- Interviews with experts, ICANN staff & community leadership, NCSG and NCUC EC and members<br></div>- Updates on policy developments, latest developments and events in the IG and DNS space on the interface<br></div><div>- Listeners will be able to post comment or directly participate in program run on the radio station <br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Note:</b> We can either build this platform from scratch and skilled coders and developers will be needed or we can use an already existing platform that might cost around $50 - 100 depending on proffered package. Also note that ICANN is calling out for new tools that will improve on existing activities or bring new approaches to deliver on activities. It is within this premise that the NCUC radio be introduced at a strategic event such as Africa Internet Summit.<br></div><div><br></div>Looking forward to your feedback by 8 March 2018 and should there be anyone interested in helping strengthen, contextualise and conceptualise this idea, please feel free to do so, alternatively you can inbox me on <a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>, thanks you in advance.<br><div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div>Thato Mfikwe.<br></div><div>South Africa<br></div><div><br><div><br><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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