[Ncuc-af] Ncuc-af Digest, Vol 24, Issue 11
Pascal Bekono
pbekono at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 13:57:00 CET 2019
Thanks Caleb for sharing this.
Thato's report shows us that we should build a strong community and we need
to more active and engaged
Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 13:36, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <
muyiwacaleb at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Brilliant summary of the meeting.
>
> My take away from the report
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> * 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
>> (Ekue Farell Folly)
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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
>> <ncuc-af at lists.ncuc.org>
>> 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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>> > o
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for taking time to read,
>> > Thato Mfikwe.
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