<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi EC,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I need a very quick response on this. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Enrico Calandro from Research ICT Africa (an organizational NCUC member) is based in Cape Town (South Africa) and would like to attend NCUC outreach. Here is his profile:<a href="https://www.uwc.ac.za/Biography/Pages/Enrico-Calandro.aspx"> https://www.uwc.ac.za/Biography/Pages/Enrico-Calandro.aspx</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Research ICT Africa does a lot of Internet policy related research and would be good to support them to become more active. Enrico was referred to us by Chenai Chair who makes great contributions to the Internet related research in Africa.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">At the moment local participation at the event does not look optimal. It would be good to support some local people. I tried to raise funds from other sources to support local participation but was unsuccessful. Enrico needs around R4,200 which is approximately 310 USD to attend the event. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I was wondering if EC could approve this request. Note that we are not over budget. Matt is going to be a Board member and will be supported by ICANN (he is not a Board member yet) so we have saved money on not allocating him 1700 USD travel support. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for considering this and please get back to me ASAP. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
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