<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I fully support this nomination !<br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">@__f_f__</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Best Regards<br class="">____________________________________<br class=""><br class="">Ekue (Farell) FOLLY<br class="">Technology Champion & Chapter Head</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Africa 2.0 Foundation.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="http://www.africa2point0.org" class="">www.africa2point0.org</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/farellf" class="">linkedin.com/in/farellf</a><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<div style=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jul 2018, at 11:26, Akinremi Peter Taiwo <<a href="mailto:compsoftnet@gmail.com" class="">compsoftnet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I will be nominating Poncelet as the Chair of NCSG, but I want my fellow brother and sister to know of my intention and to support him. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Peter.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Farell FOLLY <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:farell@benin2point0.org" target="_blank" class="">farell@benin2point0.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Excellent ideas coming down here, good good job,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear Rafik, with your tremendous experience within ICANN and your knowledge, it is no doubt that you can serve as one of our mentor here. Before I forget, would you suggest some policy discussions that you find can impact Africa from our standpoint of view? I am sure that having an ideal to defend will rally us around a common cause. You should take the lead here, you have had experience at every level (member, NCUC chair, NCSG Policy Committee Chair, GNSO council, etc.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the rest, I suggest that people who want to volunteer for an electing position show up here and we can build support for them and a strategy to win.<br class=""><div class=""><br class="m_-3703415114712326831webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><br class="m_-3703415114712326831Apple-interchange-newline">@__f_f__</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class="">Best Regards<br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">______<br class=""><br class="">Ekue (Farell) FOLLY<br class="">Technology Champion & Chapter Head</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class="">Africa 2.0 Foundation.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://www.africa2point0.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.africa2point0.org</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/farellf" target="_blank" class="">linkedin.com/in/farellf</a><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="m_-3703415114712326831Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br class="m_-3703415114712326831Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="m_-3703415114712326831Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="m_-3703415114712326831Apple-interchange-newline" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="m_-3703415114712326831Apple-interchange-newline">
</div><div class=""><div class="h5">
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jul 2018, at 08:11, Wisdom Donkor <<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank" class="">wisdom.dk@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-3703415114712326831Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I agree with you Benjamin. Looks like we are undermining yourself and depriving Africa. <div class="">We need to wake up and work as one spirit.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""> <br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3703415114712326831gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size:small" class=""><div class=""><b class="">WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)</b><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class=""><b class="">Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation (Co-Founder)</b></u></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">E-government, Internet Governance & Open Government Data and platforms Specialist<b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">ICANN Fellow / UN IGF MAG Member, ISOC Member,<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member, Diplo Foundation Member,</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">OGP Open Data WG Member, GODAN Member. </font></div></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><font size="1" class="">National SDG's data Roadmaps Advisory Board Member, Ghana</font></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><font size="1" class="">National Secretariat Manager, IT Association of Ghana (ITAG)</font></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><font size="1" class="">Ghana Energy Data Task-force Member</font></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><font size="1" class="">Ghana OGP Advisory Committee Member</font></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Email: <a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Skype: wisdom_dk</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">facebook: Kwasi Wisdom <br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Linkdin: Kwasi Wisdom</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:47 AM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">benakin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Dear All,</div><div class="">Here is my view as someone who has consistently advocated for a strategic engagement of Africans within the ICANN PDP space, in the time past I have supported and encouraged colleagues to take up roles.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My concern is how committed are we to the general African cause within the space, it appears it suits some of us to go solo. Since this conversation is coming up again, I will encourage everyone to look at the landscape and engage with the mindset of a commonwealth of all rather than individual benefits. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With that said, my suggestion is for us to look holistically at the different scenarios and identify the agenda we Africans want to push; and let us agreed on the route to go.</div><div class="">Find out which opportunities are available and discuss openly - we need to have trust and be willing to put aside our language difference, in the end, we are all one- spirit of the French team WC Champions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we believe this is possible without pushing a north African or west african or south African agenda - then we can forge a common cause. <br class=""></div><div class="">In terms of capacity building, I have always advocated that we do some form of peer to peer learning amongst ourselves to boost confidence instead of canceling out each others.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My question is what is our strategy? What is the common cause?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Benjamin<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P.S I wrote this earlier and forgot to hit the send botton.<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:30 PM Akinremi Peter Taiwo <<a href="mailto:compsoftnet@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">compsoftnet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks Thato for raising the need for more involvement of Africans in NCSG and NCUC. The same point was raised by Arsene weeks ago and Rafik clearly suggested a strategy that could help us achieved a more desirable outcome. In addition with Rafik suggestion, I would also like to suggest that we need to put on the hat of nominate ourselves for strategically positioning. While we are actively participating, Rafik, Poncelet, Farell, Anriette, Arsene among others should use their influence to nominate African colleagues . This would clearly shows that there is potential African candidates on the list. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards.</div><div class="">Peter</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Thato Mfikwe <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi members,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just wanted to highlight something that maybe some of you might have been thinking about.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you might have received notices about elections and nominations taking place, I think it would be fruitful to think about how the region gains representation in the coming elections of NCSG and NCUC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would not cause harm to have candidated standing for leadership at C or SG level and the African seat can also be discussed before contentions start and nomination periods close. Supporting 2 or 3 candidates at most would be a good start.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our passive approach will always give us a back seat with our voices not well represented, unless we collectively take a firm approach to agree or disagree on who we should rally behind or push ahead.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would also be wise to know who will be the volunteers or candidates so that we can support them, any thoughts?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If members are not confident enough to stand,it means that we need to strengthen capacity building initiatives focusing on under-serviced regions in order to encourage meaningfull participation in ICANN PDP and related activities.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apologies that I might not finish this communication threat, just trying to spark communication and collaboration with and among fellow members, thanks.</div><span class="m_-3703415114712326831m_-8428188185355271755m_3695540152967703120HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thato Mfikwe.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></font></span></div>
<br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
Ncuc-af mailing list<br class="">
<a href="mailto:Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank" class="">Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class="">
<a href="https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-<wbr class="">bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af</a><br class="">
<br class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="m_-3703415114712326831m_-8428188185355271755m_3695540152967703120gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><font size="1" class="">Akinremi Peter Taiwo</font></b></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">[ <font color="#cc0000" class="">West Africa Coordinator</font> ]</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">African Civil Society on Information Society (<b class="">ACSIS</b>)</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><b class="">Website: </b><a href="http://www.acsis-scasi.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.acsis-scasi.org</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><b class="">Chief E</b>xecutive Consultant.<br class="">[ <font color="#990000" class="">Compsoftnet Enterprise</font> ]</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><a href="http://www.compsoftnet.com.ng/" target="_blank" class="">www.compsoftnet.com.ng</a><br class="">Nigeria</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><b class="">T</b>echnical Consultant</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">[ <font color="#990000" class=""></font><font color="#990000" class=""></font><font color="#990000" class="">RetailPoin</font>t ]</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Lagos</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Website: <a href="http://www.retailpos.com.ng/" target="_blank" class="">www.retailpos.com.ng</a></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""><b class="">Phone:</b> +2347-0638-30177, +2348-1874-76292<br class=""><b class="">twitter:</b> @compsoftnet<br class=""><b class="">Skype:</b> akinremi.peter</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>
______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
Ncuc-af mailing list<br class="">
<a href="mailto:Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank" class="">Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class="">
<a href="https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-<wbr class="">bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af</a><br class="">
</blockquote></div>
______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
Ncuc-af mailing list<br class="">
<a href="mailto:Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank" class="">Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class="">
<a href="https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-<wbr class="">bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af</a><br class="">
</blockquote></div>
______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">Ncuc-af mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank" class="">Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-<wbr class="">bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
Ncuc-af mailing list<br class="">
<a href="mailto:Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org" class="">Ncuc-af@lists.ncuc.org</a><br class="">
<a href="https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-<wbr class="">bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-af</a><br class="">
<br class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><font size="1" class="">Akinremi Peter Taiwo</font></b></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">[ <font color="#cc0000" class="">West Africa Coordinator</font> ]</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">African Civil Society on Information Society (<b class="">ACSIS</b>)</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><b class="">Website: </b><a href="http://www.acsis-scasi.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.acsis-scasi.org</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><b class="">Chief E</b>xecutive Consultant.<br class="">[ <font color="#990000" class="">Compsoftnet Enterprise</font> ]</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><a href="http://www.compsoftnet.com.ng/" target="_blank" class="">www.compsoftnet.com.ng</a><br class="">Nigeria</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><b class="">T</b>echnical Consultant</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">[ <font color="#990000" class=""></font><font color="#990000" class=""></font><font color="#990000" class="">RetailPoin</font>t ]</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Lagos</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Website: <a href="http://www.retailpos.com.ng/" target="_blank" class="">www.retailpos.com.ng</a></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""><b class="">Phone:</b> +2347-0638-30177, +2348-1874-76292<br class=""><b class="">twitter:</b> @compsoftnet<br class=""><b class="">Skype:</b> akinremi.peter</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>