<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Caleb for sharing this.</div><div>Thato's report shows us that we should build a strong community and we need to more active and engaged<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 13:36, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <<a href="mailto:muyiwacaleb@gmail.com">muyiwacaleb@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Brilliant summary of the meeting.<div><br></div><div>My take away from the report </div><div><br></div><div><b> one of the reasons why quality participation has to be always promoted within the region, like working groups, leadership roles and participation in ICANN public forums.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div> We need to see more Africans engaged "ACTIVELY"<b> </b><br></div><div><br>Regards</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Caleb Ogundele</b></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:00 PM <<a href="mailto:ncuc-af-request@lists.ncuc.org" target="_blank">ncuc-af-request@lists.ncuc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Ncuc-af mailing list submissions to<br>
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From: Ekue Farell Folly <<a href="mailto:farell@benin2point0.org" target="_blank">farell@benin2point0.org</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [Ncuc-af] Report: Meeting with ICANN Africa VP during<br>
ICANN64<br>
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Good initiative Thato and Joan. Thanks for the well-detailled report.<br>
Looking forward to improving our contribution and the footprint of<br>
Africa within ICANN.<br>
On Tue, 2019-03-19 at 23:10 +0200, Thato Mfikwe wrote:<br>
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> This email serves as a report from a 45-minute meeting that<br>
> was held with ICANN VP of Stakeholder Engagement for Africa, Pierre<br>
> Dandjinou<br>
> during ICANN64 on the 13th of March 2019 and apologies for the long<br>
> message.<br>
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> Participants who attended this meeting were Thato Mfikwe (South<br>
> Africa) and Joan Katambi (Uganda), who are both NCUC members. <br>
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> The meeting started with introductions by everyone and before<br>
> and question and answer portion, I also explained the evolution of<br>
> the LACNIC<br>
> region in order to clearly articulate areas of improvement in ICANN<br>
> and<br>
> community regional efforts in contributing more effectively in<br>
> delivery of<br>
> ICANN remit and community activities.<br>
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> 1. Improving regional participation within<br>
> ICANN and the region<br>
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> Pierre mentioned that it was important for members to get<br>
> involved in community activities within ICANN and anyone interested<br>
> in<br>
> participating must be able to submit a 1-page document on how they<br>
> have<br>
> impacted or cultivated the ICANN community at regional and national<br>
> level and<br>
> how they would like to further contribute.<br>
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> Proposed way forward for improved participation<br>
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> There is a need for an ICANN/AFRICA environment.<br>
> During ICANN65, there will be a slot to discuss the Africa strategy,<br>
> also<br>
> noting that previously Africa never had an engagement platform within<br>
> ICANN.<br>
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> Fadi Chehade, the previous CEO of ICANN, strongly felt<br>
> that Africa is not well represented and treated within ICANN, for<br>
> instance less<br>
> than 1% of gTLDs were allocated to the region out of 100 applications<br>
> and most<br>
> of the allocated were in South Africa. The main problem in this<br>
> regard is that<br>
> Africa did not know about the gTLD program, it is therefore paramount<br>
> that<br>
> Africa outlines their expectations from ICANN.<br>
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> The current Africa strategy plan has 2 proposed pillars:<br>
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> Participation in ICANN’s work<br>
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> Capacity building in the Domain Name industry, a<br>
> proposed campaign is “DNSSEC roadshows” as few ccTLD managers were<br>
> assisted to<br>
> sign the zone file thus far.<br>
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> DNS forums originated in Africa, with the first<br>
> one taking place in Durban, South Africa and now these forums span<br>
> across different<br>
> regions. The advantage of these forums is that they create a platform<br>
> for registrars<br>
> and registries in Africa to collaborate and the next regional DNS<br>
> forum will be<br>
> in Botswana.<br>
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> Law enforcement agency campaigns. These campaigns<br>
> involve mitigation of cyber crime through capacity building of law<br>
> enforcement<br>
> agencies and for purposes of this, ICANN Africa has empowered 12<br>
> registrars<br>
> within the region.<br>
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> Lastly, to increase the number of fellowships for F2F<br>
> meetings, SO’s & AC’s are always supported to attend and the<br>
> mechanism has<br>
> been developed within AC/SO’s to receive fellowships. Members must<br>
> take<br>
> leadership positions, actively participate and contribute based on<br>
> the focus of<br>
> different AC’s and SO’s.<br>
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> 30% of ICANN F2F meeting attendees come to ICANN through<br>
> fellowships and the rest of the participants come by themselves or<br>
> receive<br>
> support elsewhere. In order to improve regional participation outside<br>
> ICANN’s<br>
> support, there needs to be awareness campaigns targeting regulators<br>
> to support<br>
> participation of local or regional community members. Pierre also<br>
> recognised that<br>
> the current capacity of the Africa engagement office is limited and<br>
> he<br>
> mentioned that currently, plans are under way to double capacity to<br>
> 6, as this<br>
> will help in ensuring ICANN is able to service the entire region to a<br>
> certain<br>
> extend.<br>
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> 2. LACNIC Region background<br>
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> According to Pierre, LANCIC has its own hub, whereas Africa’s<br>
> hub is in Istanbul with its engagement centre in Kenya. Another<br>
> advantage the<br>
> LACNIC region has, is that they also have internet houses with RIRs,<br>
> RALOS and<br>
> so on, making it simple for them to collaborate and work together to<br>
> effectively<br>
> contribute in activities of ICANN, while influencing policy direction<br>
> and<br>
> position, especially at community level. LACNIC also participates<br>
> within<br>
> working groups which offer fellowship opportunities.<br>
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> 3. Other opportunities for development in Africa<br>
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> Fundraising at regional and national level<br>
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> Africa only has the Africa Internet Summit, which takes place<br>
> once a year, which is not sufficient, so then, the African community<br>
> needs to<br>
> start organising itself. Pierre pointed out a need to tap into local<br>
> capacity<br>
> like mobile operators, stakeholders and entities benefitting from the<br>
> domain<br>
> name space, so engagement with them is important to supporting local<br>
> and<br>
> regional initiatives. Also pointed out that the GNSO brings in a lot<br>
> of money<br>
> in ICANN as it encompasses, registries, registrars, the Commercial<br>
> Stakeholder<br>
> Group and RIR’s for instance.<br>
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> Capacity building program<br>
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> ICANN Africa participates in regional events and have ICANN<br>
> day and specific workshops for registries and registrars, they have<br>
> also<br>
> initiated a youth community, NextGen fellowships and law enforcement<br>
> workshops.<br>
> The question to be answered when it comes to such initiatives is,<br>
> “How do we<br>
> grow them within Africa”.<br>
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> AFRISIG<br>
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> In response to continued and possible increased support for<br>
> the African School on Internet Governance, Pierre mentioned that<br>
> although they<br>
> have budget limitations, they will continue to support AFRSIG<br>
> financially and<br>
> sending resource people without making promise of increased support.<br>
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> National and Global IGF<br>
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> They do support, sponsor and participate at regional and<br>
> sub-regional IGFs (5 years ago to date), the problem with national<br>
> IGFs is that<br>
> Africa with 54 countries will mean ICANN committing funds and people<br>
> for every<br>
> request for support which is not viable based on current and<br>
> experienced budget<br>
> challenges within ICANN and the region.<br>
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> Community Support and regional participation<br>
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> The Africa engagement office currently works with AFRALO<br>
> when opportunity permits. Personally, I<br>
> think we need to learn something from AFRALO in term on how they<br>
> self-structure,<br>
> organise and co-ordinate themselves.<br>
> <br>
> During ICANN meetings, 15-20 years ago, you would find only 2<br>
> Africans out of 500 participants, the number grew steadily from to 10<br>
> – 15 Africans<br>
> overtime and today we have 40 – 50 regional participants in ICANN<br>
> meetings. This<br>
> is one of the reasons why quality participation has to be always<br>
> promoted within<br>
> the region, like working groups, leadership roles and participation<br>
> in ICANN public<br>
> forums. The good thing about ICANN, is that it creates opportunity<br>
> for<br>
> networking. ICANN localisation with multiple stakeholders is needed<br>
> to prepare<br>
> for participation of members and the regional community need to start<br>
> initiating their own Readout sessions after every ICANN meeting.<br>
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> My recommendation or side input to members<br>
> Initially, we need to consider setting up an online meeting to<br>
> discuss this report and obtain other<br>
> updates and comments. We cannot rely solely on ICANN to resolve<br>
> regional<br>
> challenges, we need to be proactive in creating an enabling<br>
> environment and<br>
> coming up with ideas and projects to see local ideals come to<br>
> fruition.<br>
> <br>
> We need to organise ourselves and immediate community members to<br>
> ensure that we are well<br>
> represented, treated and our voices are heard within ICANN as<br>
> outlined in the<br>
> report. Below are some of the proposed action steps we can consider:<br>
> <br>
> a. <br>
> Development of a concept document on how the<br>
> African strategy can be improved or best executed before ICANN65, to<br>
> be submitted<br>
> of the ICANNN African engagement office and then presented and<br>
> discussed at the<br>
> meeting.<br>
> <br>
> b. <br>
> Establishment of a steering committee encompassing<br>
> community members and/or representatives from NCUC in the meantime<br>
> and then<br>
> other ACs and SOs in the medium term, to: <br>
> i. initiate establishment of WGs (policy development,<br>
> community engagements, capacity building, fundraising and etc for<br>
> instance, guided by agreed<br>
> priorities) <br>
> ii. <br>
> develop an action plan and procedural documents defining<br>
> terms and parameters of participation and engagement amongst other<br>
> activities.<br>
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> Thanks for taking time to read, <br>
> Thato Mfikwe.<br>
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