Fwd: [council] A New Approach to Africa

[Alain Berranger]

Hi Bill,

An SG interest group makes sense and I would like to participate.

Since not all NPOC members hold individual membership in NCUC, like I do, I
think that this SG interest group should be accessible to all NCSG members
on an NCSG website or wiki place.

Can you remind me who Tarek is, please?

Please be kind enough to avoid NON-COMMERCIAL (your capitals) chat since we
have not resolved our current disagreement on this and we have other places
to deal with this. If you have not already done so, you can send your views
to the NCSG-EC members or the Chair of NCSG.... but let's keep it out of
this  budding interest group discussions as I'm not sure how useful it is.

One possible substantive issue this group should address is the very high
and unaffordable cost (and other barriers) in certain parts of Africa to
acquire a domain name. Besides the obvious digital divide consequences, it
also prevents membership in NCSG for a very large "community" unable to
afford a domain name.

Thanks, Alain

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:34 AM, William Drake <
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:

> Hi Alain
>
> On Aug 13, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Alain Berranger wrote:
>
>
>
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> However, many interested people present in Prague - I am one - have been
> excluded of this early thinking and, as a result their inputs, knowledge
> and network were also missed.
>
>
> The announcement said
>
> *From: *Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> This initiative is the result of a June meeting involving Steve Crocker,
>>> Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors, ICANN's CEO-Designate Fadi Chehadé
>>> and its Interim CEO Akram Atallah with African community members at ICANN's
>>> 44th Public Meeting, in Prague, Czech Republic.
>>>
>>>
> This time you are not alone in your victimhood, the entire community
> didn't participate in the meeting.  So perhaps we can put aside that
> particular leitmotif and focus on how best to engage in and leverage this
> effort in a positive spirit.  Of course, there are a lot of questions here
> as to how they intend to proceed, whether the prior discussions of targeted
> work on developing country issues and the current parallel initiative on
> outreach will tie in and how, etc.  It's obviously a rather ad hoc start..
>
> We've talked before about the SG having interest groups and there was an
> initial burble of effort at putting one together on development and
> capacity building http://ncuc.org/group/interestgroupdevelopment that
> lost steam amidst other challenges.  We still have a core of people who
> care about such things, which others could sign up too without us having to
> resolve all possible issues around the formation and conduct of IGs.  The
> idea after wall was to be flexible and pan-SG.
>
> My suggestion would then that anyone else who is interested in developing
> country aspects of ICANN work in general and perhaps African aspects in
> particular sign up for that group and start communicating, and perhaps if
> the dialogue starts to happen we could begin work on a letter to Tarek
> outlining noncommercial (meaning, NONCOMMERCIAL) stakeholders' concerns and
> possible contributions to this effort.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>



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Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
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