[kictanet] ICANN Remains Committed to Nairobi and Africa

[Alex Gakuru]

This is so encouraging! It makes us truly feel as one, connected with
you, on the same internet - addressing a shared network and human
challenges. Thank you!

Alex

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
> Good news.
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> Adam
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>> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:14:20 +0300
>> From: alice <alice at apc.org>
>> Organization: Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
>> Subject: [kictanet] ICANN Remains Committed to Nairobi and Africa
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>> http://blog.icann.org/2010/01/icann-remains-committed-to-nairobi-and-africa/
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>>  ICANN Remains Committed to Nairobi and Africa
>>
>> by Rod Beckstrom on January 22, 2010
>>
>> We have listened to the community. Many are looking forward to Nairobi,
>> some expressed concerns, particularly in light of the events in downtown
>> Nairobi on January 15. Accordingly, ICANN staff and board have reexamined
>> the security situation
>>
>> During our re-examination we first explored moving the event out of the
>> downtown Nairobi area to a suburb, but determined that no suitable venue was
>> available.
>>
>> Second, we reached out to the Kenyan government as well as other nations
>> with operations in Kenya for their risk assessments of the situation. The
>> consistent feedback was that the overall risk assessment of Nairobi had not
>> changed. Accordingly, based on the ICANN CEO¹s recommendation, the ICANN
>> Board has approved moving ahead with the ICANN Nairobi meeting.
>>
>> At the same time, we recognize that many developing country cities have
>> higher ambient levels of street crime and much of the world (the U.S. And
>> Europe included) faces international terrorist threats and attacks. Both are
>> simply facts of life. Also, as with all ICANN events, we will continue to
>> monitor the security situation in case there are any material future
>> changes. For any ICANN community members who do not travel to the event,
>> remote participation will be available for many of the meetings.
>>
>> Given that ICANN is committed to ³One world. One Internet. Everyone
>> connected.² we have engaged and will continue to engage with the whole
>> world.
>>
>> We greatly appreciate the assistance of Kenya, the host country, and their
>> commitment to address ICANN security concerns. In addition, the ICANN board
>> has approved further security investments by the CEO as necessary for the
>> event, and the CEO will become personally involved in reviewing the security
>> plans.
>>
>> I love Kenya. I have been to Nairobi six times and greatly look forward to
>> participating in this important ICANN International meeting.
>>
>> Rod Beckstrom
>> CEO and President
>> ICANN
>> 22 January 2010
>>
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