[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC at the Africa Internet Summit session proposals

[Liz Orembo]

Thanks Olga and Arsene,

@Arsene, the session itself is on capacity building, both for folks who
have started engaging and those who haven't. I think it is covered in the
3rd para of the abstract.  No?

Thanks again, reaching out to Seun.



On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Arsène Tungali <arsenebaguma at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Liz,
>
> Thank you for starting this.
>
> I have been staring at this proposal and had a lot of thoughs on how we
> can highlight the work we are doing at the NCUC and recruit more interests
> in our work at IAS. I would love to see a proposal that will be speaking
> and encouraging people (especially those non techies who might be there) to
> be involved in the domain name policy and why they should join the NCUC if
> they want to be engaged in the future of the Internet.
>
> At IAS as for other AFRINIC meetings, there are participants, especially
> those who are joining as part of their fellowship program who don't know
> yet where to go and for whom AIS is their first Internet governance related
> conference/meeting. But all of them have a desire to learn more on how they
> can be part of the future of the Internet. I have been part of this
> fellowship so I know that feeling.
>
> Can we work out something, a proposal that will encourge them to join the
> NCUC and start their DNS policy journey with us? At AIS, they will talk
> much about numbers and not everyone who is not a techie will get that but
> if they attend a civil society session where one presents them an
> opportunity to be part of the DNS industry, i am sure they will find it
> interesting and may decide to join our work. Who knows? We may be in a
> position to recruit some interesting members there.
>
> I am sorry i cannot help more on rephrasing or reworking this proposal but
> just wanted to share this as i believe this is one of the ways we can use
> this event as a true outreach opportunity and therefore, use this CROP
> opportunity in a meaningfull way.
>
> Lastly, I would encourage you to reach out to Seun (copied here) who is an
> NCUC member and on the board of Afrinic who can be on your panel and
> speaking about something like "Why number folks can be involved in the
> names industry". He is in a good position to speak about the NCUC and what
> we stand for or anything else civil society participation in ICANN (also
> being heavily involved in ALAC with whom we have things in common).
>
> Sorry for not being so much helpful here :)
>
> Regards,
> Arsene
>
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> 2018-02-26 21:39 GMT+02:00 Olga Kyryliuk <olga_kyryliuk at ukr.net>:
>
>> Dear Liz,
>>
>> Thanks for taking the initiative and preparing a draft proposal. It is
>> truly important to represent NCUC at events like AIS in order to raise
>> awareness and let others know what we do. I hope others who feel this is
>> important will join in supporting or commenting while we still have a bit
>> of time before the deadline.
>>
>> Best,
>> Olga Kyryliuk
>>
>>
>> *19 февраля 2018, 14:20:40, от "Liz Orembo" <lizorembo at gmail.com
>> <lizorembo at gmail.com>>:*
>>
>>
>> Dear NCUC Members,
>>
>> NCUC Africa is preparing proposals for the Africa Internet Summit. Here
>> is a draft for one. https://docs.google.com/d
>> ocument/d/1-c6tsMtWCxBDHtbFL9OsGy6Uuz1rzpx2qpgARR4SQbg/edit
>>
>>
>> Deadline for submission is 9th March, lets try input/comment directly to
>> the doc within the week.
>>
>> Lastly, if you're planning to attend the AIS and would be interested to
>> participate as a speaker, please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Best regards.
>> Liz.
>>
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Best regards.
Liz.

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