<div>Hi, Norbert-<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree that more needs to be done to connect the unconnected,
particularly in the global South. And I appreciate that definitions of Internet
governance, and of the missions of the institutions which are involved in Internet governance topics, vary in scope. Both are continuously being explored and debated by us
all. In my view, however, ICANN is not responsible for the rollout of broadband
infrastructure.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is my understanding that ICANN is primarily concerned with the running of the technical
infrastructure of the Internet (things like the allocation of unique
identifiers such as domain names), and for making sure the Domain Name System is there to
support the physical infrastructure when it does come to more parts of the world. That
said, the Internet Society does some great work trying to close the gap between
the connected and the unconnected, and in positively encouraging external investment in
these underlying infrastructural issues, so it might be worth investigating whether there is an ISOC chapter in your country, in case you are not already a member.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block "><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user "><div>Ayden Férdeline<br></div><div><a title="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline">linkedin.com/in/ferdeline</a><br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"><div>-------- Original Message --------<br></div><div>Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Meeting with ICANN CEO<br></div><div>Local Time: 10 February 2017 5:26 PM<br></div><div>UTC Time: 10 February 2017 17:26<br></div><div>From: norbertglakpe@gmail.com<br></div><div>To: Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca><br></div><div>william.drake@uzh.ch, ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Dear all,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I have few questions for the CEO of ICANN:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">You recently said that the future of Internet is Africa.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Then I would want to recall that Africa actually has the lowest Internet penetration ratio.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">We need broadband Internet in our schools to disseminate knowledge and improve the quality of the education.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">We need affordable Internet for our companies, businesses, startups to enable innovation. We need braodband in our homes for so many raisons.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">We need to get rural areas online to let Internet trigger the socio-economic development.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I would want to add that the future of Africa is Internet (and electricity).<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">So, Mr CEO, What is your plan, your strategy to accelerate broadband Internet Africa <br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Thanks,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Norbert Komlan GLAKPE<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2017-02-08 2:16 GMT+00:00 Stephanie Perrin <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>></span>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><span class="size" style="font-size:undefinedpx"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">I agree with the
below. I think it is important to emphasize the positive
nature of our contributions, not ask embarrassing or uncomfortable
questions. Fine to point out difficult problems, as long as
we can answer that key response question, "so what do you
think we should do about it?"</span></span><br></p><p><span class="size" style="font-size:undefinedpx"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">cheers Stephanie</span></span><br></p><div><br></div><div class="m_8651520994900674675moz-cite-prefix">On 2017-02-07 04:32, matthew shears
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p>Hi - inline<br></p><div><br></div><div class="m_8651520994900674675moz-cite-prefix">On 07/02/2017 10:19, William Drake
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi <br></div><div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 6, 2017, at 21:18, Mueller, Milton L
<<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu">milton@gatech.edu</a>>
wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="m_8651520994900674675WordSection1" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:18px;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"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Farzaneh:<u></u></span></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Your
primary goal in this talk should be to make sure
the new CEO understands who and what NCUC is, to
solicit information from him about what attitudes
(prejudices?) and perceptions he has about us,
correcting any misperceptions he might have. So I
would come up with some basic talking points about
that. You need to make it clear why it is
absolutely essential that the GNSO continue to be
structured in a way that balances commercial and
noncommercial and contracted and non-contracted
parties, and why board and GAC interference with
GNSO consensus policies after the fact is a bad
thing.</span></span></span><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div>+ 100<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><br></div><div>Agree. While I think he has some sense of what we’re about
already, given prior discussions, it’d be good to lock it
the desired framing. And to invite him to Constituency Day.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="m_8651520994900674675WordSection1" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:18px;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"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><u></u></span></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">As
a secondary priority, you might discuss the
prohibition on content regulation and how we think
the use of PICs might circumvent that.</span></span></span><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div>Agree<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="m_8651520994900674675WordSection1" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:18px;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"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">You
could emphasize our belief that in the new
accountability arrangements, ACs such as ALAC were
given too much power relative to the much larger
and more diverse set of stakeholders in the GNSO,
and how a ALAC/GAC alliance in certain bylaw
disputes might thwart attempts to keep ICANN
constrained within its mission.</span></span></span><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unless my memory is foggy this morning we were not in
uniform agreement on these points, so if there’s time to get
into them it maybe qualified them as “some members are
concerned that..”.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Also, and while I largely agree with this, what is the point of
bringing this up? Are we asking for some review of the
Accountability mechanisms? Are we asking him to keep an eye on
their possible collusion? If I were Goran I would say - and so
what do you think should be done about this? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Agree with Bill's qualification.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Matthew<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br></div><div>Best<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Bill<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="m_8651520994900674675WordSection1" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:18px;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"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><u></u></span></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></span><br></div><div style="border-style:none none none solid;border-left-color:blue;border-left-width:1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4pt"><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></span></b><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><span class="m_8651520994900674675Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ncuc-discuss
[<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@<wbr>lists.ncuc.org</a>]<span class="m_8651520994900674675Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="m_8651520994900674675Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>farzaneh
badii<br> <b>Sent:</b><span class="m_8651520994900674675Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday,
February 6, 2017 7:25 AM<br> <b>To:</b><span class="m_8651520994900674675Apple-converted-space"> </span>NCUC-discuss
<<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a>><br> <b>Subject:</b><span class="m_8651520994900674675Apple-converted-space"> </span>[NCUC-DISCUSS]
Meeting with ICANN CEO<u></u></span></span></div></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u><br></div><div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Dear NCUC members,<u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">I will have a 1:1
meeting with the ICANN CEO next week. If you
would like me to discuss a topic with him,
please share it on this list by 10 Feb. Since
this is a 30 minute talk I cannot cover
everything but I will try my best to at least
mention some of the suggested topic briefly. <u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Best<u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span><br></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh<span class="m_8651520994900674675Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u></u><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px">______________________________<wbr>_________________</span></span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px">Ncuc-discuss
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