[Ncuc-af] Ncuc-af Digest, Vol 24, Issue 11
Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele
muyiwacaleb at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 13:34:49 CET 2019
Brilliant summary of the meeting.
My take away from the report
* 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.*
We need to see more Africans engaged "ACTIVELY"
Regards
*Caleb Ogundele*
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> 1. Re: Report: Meeting with ICANN Africa VP during ICANN64
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> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:02:45 +0100
> From: Ekue Farell Folly <farell at benin2point0.org>
> To: Thato Mfikwe <thatomfikwe at gmail.com>, Ncuc-af
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> Subject: Re: [Ncuc-af] Report: Meeting with ICANN Africa VP during
> ICANN64
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> Good initiative Thato and Joan. Thanks for the well-detailled report.
> Looking forward to improving our contribution and the footprint of
> Africa within ICANN.
> On Tue, 2019-03-19 at 23:10 +0200, Thato Mfikwe wrote:
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> > Hi all
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> > This email serves as a report from a 45-minute meeting that
> > was held with ICANN VP of Stakeholder Engagement for Africa, Pierre
> > Dandjinou
> > during ICANN64 on the 13th of March 2019 and apologies for the long
> > message.
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> > Participants who attended this meeting were Thato Mfikwe (South
> > Africa) and Joan Katambi (Uganda), who are both NCUC members.
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> > The meeting started with introductions by everyone and before
> > and question and answer portion, I also explained the evolution of
> > the LACNIC
> > region in order to clearly articulate areas of improvement in ICANN
> > and
> > community regional efforts in contributing more effectively in
> > delivery of
> > ICANN remit and community activities.
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> > 1. Improving regional participation within
> > ICANN and the region
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> > Pierre mentioned that it was important for members to get
> > involved in community activities within ICANN and anyone interested
> > in
> > participating must be able to submit a 1-page document on how they
> > have
> > impacted or cultivated the ICANN community at regional and national
> > level and
> > how they would like to further contribute.
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> > Proposed way forward for improved participation
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> > There is a need for an ICANN/AFRICA environment.
> > During ICANN65, there will be a slot to discuss the Africa strategy,
> > also
> > noting that previously Africa never had an engagement platform within
> > ICANN.
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> > Fadi Chehade, the previous CEO of ICANN, strongly felt
> > that Africa is not well represented and treated within ICANN, for
> > instance less
> > than 1% of gTLDs were allocated to the region out of 100 applications
> > and most
> > of the allocated were in South Africa. The main problem in this
> > regard is that
> > Africa did not know about the gTLD program, it is therefore paramount
> > that
> > Africa outlines their expectations from ICANN.
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> > The current Africa strategy plan has 2 proposed pillars:
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> > Participation in ICANN’s work
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> > Capacity building in the Domain Name industry, a
> > proposed campaign is “DNSSEC roadshows” as few ccTLD managers were
> > assisted to
> > sign the zone file thus far.
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> > -
> > DNS forums originated in Africa, with the first
> > one taking place in Durban, South Africa and now these forums span
> > across different
> > regions. The advantage of these forums is that they create a platform
> > for registrars
> > and registries in Africa to collaborate and the next regional DNS
> > forum will be
> > in Botswana.
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> > Law enforcement agency campaigns. These campaigns
> > involve mitigation of cyber crime through capacity building of law
> > enforcement
> > agencies and for purposes of this, ICANN Africa has empowered 12
> > registrars
> > within the region.
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> > Lastly, to increase the number of fellowships for F2F
> > meetings, SO’s & AC’s are always supported to attend and the
> > mechanism has
> > been developed within AC/SO’s to receive fellowships. Members must
> > take
> > leadership positions, actively participate and contribute based on
> > the focus of
> > different AC’s and SO’s.
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> > 30% of ICANN F2F meeting attendees come to ICANN through
> > fellowships and the rest of the participants come by themselves or
> > receive
> > support elsewhere. In order to improve regional participation outside
> > ICANN’s
> > support, there needs to be awareness campaigns targeting regulators
> > to support
> > participation of local or regional community members. Pierre also
> > recognised that
> > the current capacity of the Africa engagement office is limited and
> > he
> > mentioned that currently, plans are under way to double capacity to
> > 6, as this
> > will help in ensuring ICANN is able to service the entire region to a
> > certain
> > extend.
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> > 2. LACNIC Region background
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> > According to Pierre, LANCIC has its own hub, whereas Africa’s
> > hub is in Istanbul with its engagement centre in Kenya. Another
> > advantage the
> > LACNIC region has, is that they also have internet houses with RIRs,
> > RALOS and
> > so on, making it simple for them to collaborate and work together to
> > effectively
> > contribute in activities of ICANN, while influencing policy direction
> > and
> > position, especially at community level. LACNIC also participates
> > within
> > working groups which offer fellowship opportunities.
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> > 3. Other opportunities for development in Africa
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> > Fundraising at regional and national level
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> > Africa only has the Africa Internet Summit, which takes place
> > once a year, which is not sufficient, so then, the African community
> > needs to
> > start organising itself. Pierre pointed out a need to tap into local
> > capacity
> > like mobile operators, stakeholders and entities benefitting from the
> > domain
> > name space, so engagement with them is important to supporting local
> > and
> > regional initiatives. Also pointed out that the GNSO brings in a lot
> > of money
> > in ICANN as it encompasses, registries, registrars, the Commercial
> > Stakeholder
> > Group and RIR’s for instance.
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> >
> > Capacity building program
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> > ICANN Africa participates in regional events and have ICANN
> > day and specific workshops for registries and registrars, they have
> > also
> > initiated a youth community, NextGen fellowships and law enforcement
> > workshops.
> > The question to be answered when it comes to such initiatives is,
> > “How do we
> > grow them within Africa”.
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> >
> > AFRISIG
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> > In response to continued and possible increased support for
> > the African School on Internet Governance, Pierre mentioned that
> > although they
> > have budget limitations, they will continue to support AFRSIG
> > financially and
> > sending resource people without making promise of increased support.
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> > National and Global IGF
> >
> > They do support, sponsor and participate at regional and
> > sub-regional IGFs (5 years ago to date), the problem with national
> > IGFs is that
> > Africa with 54 countries will mean ICANN committing funds and people
> > for every
> > request for support which is not viable based on current and
> > experienced budget
> > challenges within ICANN and the region.
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> > Community Support and regional participation
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> > The Africa engagement office currently works with AFRALO
> > when opportunity permits. Personally, I
> > think we need to learn something from AFRALO in term on how they
> > self-structure,
> > organise and co-ordinate themselves.
> >
> > During ICANN meetings, 15-20 years ago, you would find only 2
> > Africans out of 500 participants, the number grew steadily from to 10
> > – 15 Africans
> > overtime and today we have 40 – 50 regional participants in ICANN
> > meetings. This
> > is 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. The good thing about ICANN, is that it creates opportunity
> > for
> > networking. ICANN localisation with multiple stakeholders is needed
> > to prepare
> > for participation of members and the regional community need to start
> > initiating their own Readout sessions after every ICANN meeting.
> >
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> >
> > My recommendation or side input to members
> > Initially, we need to consider setting up an online meeting to
> > discuss this report and obtain other
> > updates and comments. We cannot rely solely on ICANN to resolve
> > regional
> > challenges, we need to be proactive in creating an enabling
> > environment and
> > coming up with ideas and projects to see local ideals come to
> > fruition.
> >
> > We need to organise ourselves and immediate community members to
> > ensure that we are well
> > represented, treated and our voices are heard within ICANN as
> > outlined in the
> > report. Below are some of the proposed action steps we can consider:
> >
> > a.
> > Development of a concept document on how the
> > African strategy can be improved or best executed before ICANN65, to
> > be submitted
> > of the ICANNN African engagement office and then presented and
> > discussed at the
> > meeting.
> >
> > b.
> > Establishment of a steering committee encompassing
> > community members and/or representatives from NCUC in the meantime
> > and then
> > other ACs and SOs in the medium term, to:
> > i. initiate establishment of WGs (policy development,
> > community engagements, capacity building, fundraising and etc for
> > instance, guided by agreed
> > priorities)
> > ii.
> > develop an action plan and procedural documents defining
> > terms and parameters of participation and engagement amongst other
> > activities.
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> > Thanks for taking time to read,
> > Thato Mfikwe.
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