<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi members,</div><div><br></div><div>I forgot to copy you on this communication below that is also meant for you, thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Thato Mfikwe. <br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Thato Mfikwe</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 7:25 PM<br>Subject: Re: Important!!! Reminder on the NCUC Africa concept document<br>To: Remmy Nweke <<a href="mailto:remmyn@gmail.com">remmyn@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: Liz Orembo <<a href="mailto:lizorembo@gmail.com">lizorembo@gmail.com</a>>, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com">benakin@gmail.com</a>>, Bukola Oronti <<a href="mailto:bukkiepharworley@gmail.com">bukkiepharworley@gmail.com</a>>, hfaiedh ines <<a href="mailto:hfaiedh.ines2@gmail.com">hfaiedh.ines2@gmail.com</a>>, Joan katambi <<a href="mailto:joanhopek@gmail.com">joanhopek@gmail.com</a>>, Akinremi Peter Taiwo <<a href="mailto:compsoftnet@gmail.com">compsoftnet@gmail.com</a>>, Yazid AKANHO <<a href="mailto:yakanho2@yahoo.fr">yakanho2@yahoo.fr</a>>, Arsène Tungali <<a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi volunteers and all,</div><div><br></div><div>Without necessarily having to wait for community election processes to close because we are running out of time, first is to thank all volunteers for their contribution on the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nm9yh7ctS1xHoOS8hjkeH_SUsDwMIQS-2TZEeCX2KqU/edit#heading=h.m263d4rlbax3" target="_blank">NCUC/NCSG Africa Strategy Document</a>, I am glad to inform you that the document is now taking shape but we still needing headings for different sections and put forward our recommendations.<br></div><div><br></div><div><u><b>Just some urgent issues/tasks needing broad participation before ICANN65:</b></u></div><div><br></div><div>1. I just wanted to kindly remind everyone that we only have around 2 weeks before ICANN65 and the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nm9yh7ctS1xHoOS8hjkeH_SUsDwMIQS-2TZEeCX2KqU/edit#heading=h.m263d4rlbax3" target="_blank">NCUC/NCSG Africa strategy</a> document now only needs recommendations, unless there are additional inputs.</div><div>2. We also need to hold a webinar with regional mailing list members atleast 1 week before ICANN65 so that we before, will ask Ines to help with setting up a Doodle once we have completed and closed the draft regional strategy document. Some of the issues to be dealt with during the said webinar include <br></div><div> a. Resolving a few contention areas</div><div> b. Adoption of our regional strategy document and <br></div><div> c. Next steps</div><div><br></div><div>3. We need a member or 2 who will be attending ICANN65 to help present our strategy in brief during the planned ICANN65 Africa Strategy meeting and provide feedback thereafter.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Note:</b><br></div><div>Any member who still wishes to still contribute to help <b>contribute</b> to this strategy document or wants to help to <b>review and clean</b> the document, please come forward because we still do not have a dedicated penholder for our online regional activities because we need to complete and adopt the document by Friday, 19 June latest, thanks. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thato Mfikwe. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:23 AM Remmy Nweke <<a href="mailto:remmyn@gmail.com" target="_blank">remmyn@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for the feedback. <br></div>Please where is the link to the organisational review for public comment? Kindly share.<br><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_9037239949946864256gmail-m_4024558650442937810gmail-m_-374111145103303955gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">____<div>REMMY NWEKE, <font size="1">mNGE</font>, </div><div>Lead Consulting Strategist/Group Executive Editor, <br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)">DigitalSENSE Africa Media</span> <span>[<i>Multiple-award winning medium</i>]<br></span>(<a href="http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng/businessnews" target="_blank">DigitalSENSE Business News</a>; <a href="http://www.itrealms.com.ng" target="_blank">ITREALMS</a>, <a href="http://www.naijaagronet.com.ng" target="_blank">NaijaAgroNet</a>)</div><div>Block F1, Shop 133 Moyosore Aboderin Plaza, Bolade Junction, Oshodi-Lagos<br>M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, 8051000475, T: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ITRealms" target="_blank">@ITRealms<br></a><div>Author: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adecadeofictreportageinnigeria%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria</a></div><div><br></div><div><b><font color="#ff0000">2019 <a href="http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng" target="_blank">Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on IG4D & Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable</a></font></b> </div><div>JOIN us!!</div><div><br></div><div>*Vice President, <a href="http://www.acsis-scasi.org/en/" target="_blank">African Civil Society on the Information Society (ACSIS</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg" target="_blank"><b>NPOC FC Rep @ICANN Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG)</b></a></div><div>_________________________________________________________________<br><font size="1">*Confidentiality Notice:* The information in this document and attachments are confidential and may also be privileged information. It is intended only for the use of the named recipient. Remmy Nweke does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately, then delete this document and do not disclose the contents of this document to any other person, nor make any copies. Violators may face court persecution.<br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:45 AM Liz Orembo <<a href="mailto:lizorembo@gmail.com" target="_blank">lizorembo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Thato for your hard work and starting us off. Indeed, Africa participation in ICANN policy is a struggle and we need to find ways in which we ban tackle these barriers for new comers. Many of our next gen and fellows come in and fall out compared to the rest.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have just scribbled some draft, and will refine it with time, once we get all our ideas together.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, we have a public comment on organization review. it will be important for us to stress the review of regional participation in these ICANN consituencies</div><div>.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:52 PM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank">benakin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Received with thanks. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:48 AM Thato Mfikwe <<a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Benjamin and everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Below is the link to the google doc. I also sent everyone individual invites to the google doc, let me know if you experience challenges, thanks.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nm9yh7ctS1xHoOS8hjkeH_SUsDwMIQS-2TZEeCX2KqU/edit#" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nm9yh7ctS1xHoOS8hjkeH_SUsDwMIQS-2TZEeCX2KqU/edit#</a></div><div><br><br></div><div>Thato Mfikwe. <br> </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 9:25 PM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@gmail.com" target="_blank">benakin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Thanks. Thato, for sharing this. Can you put the link to the Africa Strategy document on the google document?<div><br></div><div>Everyone let us get on this document to have our voice heard.<br><div><br></div><div>Benjamin</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 1:39 PM Remmy Nweke <<a href="mailto:remmyn@gmail.com" target="_blank">remmyn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">Noted with thanks. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Will revert shortly please</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 10 May 2019, 11:06 a.m. Thato Mfikwe <<a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi members,</div><div><br></div><div>Although this discussion was intended to take place in the regional mailing list, I would like to request that we concentrate our efforts and once we are done completing the concept we can share and engage the mailing list for fast-tracking purposes. Maybe some are not comfortable commenting publicly, trying to figure out where the challenge lies.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, ICANN 65 is just around the corner and we need to provide a progress report during the next NCUC Africa call, as mentioned our work and activities do not have to take long before implementation. Bear in mind that we also need to figure who will be at ICANN65 to deliver our input and put forward our position during the Africa Strategy meeting.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Remmy, Arsene, and Benjamin, I saw your comments on the mailing list, not sure if you are interested in joining the NCUC Africa task team with the following task in the interim:</div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">Development of <u><a rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nm9yh7ctS1xHoOS8hjkeH_SUsDwMIQS-2TZEeCX2KqU/edit" target="_blank">NCUC Africa concept document outlining</a></u> (to be populated) how our goals, plan, projects and deliverables towards the Africa strategy, pre ICANN65 if possible. This document can be discussed with the wider community during ICANN65, Africa Strategy session.<span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"><span><br></span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">2-year Action plan</span></u><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt"> which will marry the NCUC Africa concept document in order to enhance, sharpen and ready execution of deliverables, by ICANN66.</span>
</div><div><br></div><div>As much as we do not have a penholder, the concept document is very important as it will articulate our objectives and plans in order to ease coordination. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Please do not hesitate to let me know if you need any clarity but your support in completing the above 2 tasks within deadlines would be highly appreciated, thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Thato Mfikwe. <br></div></div>
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