<div dir="ltr">Hi Evan,<div><br></div><div>there is fact : there was no real outreach efforts toward africa about new gTLD program (and that is an euphemism) and about support applicant for example. it is hard to make causality relation with such fact between few applications from africa and no interest from region for new gTLD program.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br clear="all"><div dir="ltr"><div>Rafik Dammak</div>@rafik<div>"fight for the users"</div></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/5 Evan Leibovitch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org" target="_blank">evan@telly.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 4 July 2012 09:15, Adam Peake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp" target="_blank">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Failure of outreach, or just a reflection of economics.</blockquote><div><br>
</div></div></div>There are more answers/excuses than those two. Many more.<br><br>ICANN continues to amaze me, in that so many inside its bubble cannot comprehend the mere possibility that there may simply be <b>no demand</b> for new TLDs in wide swaths of the world, especially after factoring out defensive motives. Not just Africa. Not everyone believes that that mere speculation equates to innovation, or that private ownership/control of common words is a Good Idea. And no amount of bovine lipstick is going to hide these core assumptions of the TLD expansion program.<br>
<br>After promoting an idea/product to an audience that doesn't take, saying that the message was not adequately delivered is a convenient excuse. But there's also the distinct possibility -- that <i>must</i> be at least considered -- that the message was sufficiently delivered and understood, but the target market has chosen not to partake based on educated choice.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>- Evan<br><br><br>
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