Fwd: [council] A New Approach to Africa

[McTim]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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
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13 person IIRC. the folk who hold the Alternate seats are full Board
members.


> 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.
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Nor does it provide for business, gov or ccTLDs persons.   Representation
is regional, NOT by stakeholder group.




>  Or would I be missing one (including on the listed past) BOD members?
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There are 2 academics elected as alternates.   together, all of these folk
ARE acting as CS IMHO.



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> The internet was once controlled by engineers before lawyers snatched it
> from them. Assertive global civil society raised its and had to be
> accommodated.
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how so?



> 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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We already have a say.  Look at the last several AfriNIC meeting lists, you
will see LOTS of CS participants!!


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Cheers,

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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