Fwd: [council] A New Approach to Africa

[Alex Gakuru]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:52 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:44 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Great development, for the technical side of the Internet.
>>>> Unfortunately AFRINIC, historically most shy to Human Rights,
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>>> How is the most inclusive bottom-up open and transparent IG mechanism we
>>> have in Africa "most shy" to HR??
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>> Who are their HR people?
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> You and me and everyone else interested in making policy.  WE make policy,
> the NIC just does what we tell them in terms of policy.
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Mailing lists can/are open but effective policy influence is achieved with
representation on the policy making table. Their 6-person BOD structure
http://www.afrinic.net/en/our-structure/bod  of Eastern Africa(1), Indian
Ocean(1), Northern Africa(1), Western Africa(1), Central Africa(1),
Southern Africa(1) are business, ccTLDs and government persons. It does not
provide for civil society representatives. Or would I be missing one
(including on the listed past) BOD members?

The internet was once controlled by engineers before lawyers snatched it
from them. Assertive global civil society raised its and had to be
accommodated. Now Africa's Civil Society has risen up and is demanding a
say on how Africa (and global) Internet is managed, for example,
http://netizenproject.org/2012/08/05/pan-african-civil-society-on-who-controls-the-internet/


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>>>> is the wrong (or not) best vehicle to carry Civil Society and its
>>>> multi-stakeholder bar.
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>>> It is AfrICANN, not AfrINIC that is the vehicle for this.
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>>>  You mean AfrICANN is incorporated distinctly separate from AFRINIC? I
>> always considered it just another mailing list hosted by AFRINIC.
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> It is a mailing list.  It is hosted by the NIC, but they have nothing
> whatsoever to do with AFRICANN folk self-organised activities.  They do not
> moderate or actively participate, they just provide (free) hosting.
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> Cheers,
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> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
> indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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