<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello all! I like the idea and fully support the process I am a Kenyan living in Nairobi and would like to know whether there is a stakeholder F-To-F meeting scheduled for Nairobi City.<br><br></div>Regards;<br><br><br></div>James Njoroge Gitau<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Wisdom Donkor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucida grande',sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px">Dear all,</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><u><b>INVITATION TO JOIN ICANN IANA STEWARDSHIP TRANSITION & ENHANCING ICANN ACCOUNTABILITY STAKEHOLDER MEETING IN GHANA</b></u><br><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">About a year ago National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NITA) of the Department of Commerce, USA tasked ICANN to convene an inclusive and global discussion to determine a process for transitioning the stewardship of IANA functions which it currently performs to the global multistakeholder community. Indeed since that announcement, the global community has worked tirelessly and with great resilience and determination resulting in two parallel processes in response to the 14 March announcement. This has seen the multistakeholder community develop two parallel processes namely:</p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px"></p><ul><li><span style="line-height:1.38"><b>IANA Stewardship Transition:</b> Focused on delivering a proposal to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder community.</span></li><li><span style="line-height:1.38"><b>Enhancing ICANN Accountability:</b> Focused on ensuring that ICANN remains accountable in the absence of its historical contractual relationship with the U.S. Government.</span><br></li></ul><p></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">As a neutral convener of the dialogue, ICANN has an important responsibility of raising awareness about the processes as they evolve and to support the community’s engagement. Of great concern is the low level of meaningful participation witnessed so far from Africa. In 2014, ICANN participated in 11 events and 5 webinars / teleconferences to raise awareness on this issue in Africa. But clearly, from the response so far, a lot still needs to be done to stimulate the African community to participate effectively.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">It is based on this background and analysis that the ICANN Africa team resolved to launch an<b> IANA Stewardship Transition & Enhancing ICANN Accountability </b>revival month in April 2015. The target is to organize 1-2 hour sessions / webinars / teleconferences or face-to-face meetings in various countries’ in Africa at different times and dates led by local community leaders and stakeholders in the internal ecosystem at the National Level. ICANN staff will be available to support and reinforce the meetings either by contributing on presentations as well as online meeting resources as appropriate. The intention is to end up with formal communiqué from different countries on their perspective on both processes at least from each country where such meetings will be held. Such communiqué could be addressed to the ICG as appropriate.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">By the end of this exercise, we hope to have stirred debate and enhanced the understanding and interest of the Internet communities in the countries participating to come up with national positions, Comments or Communiqué to the ICG. Such communiqués will not be limited to governments but other stakeholder groups in the various countries (Such as ISOC chapters, registrar associations etc.) would also be free to express their positions directly to the ICG. ICANN Africa staff would also summarize the month’s activities in a blog post to be published at the end of April.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px">Ghana has been selected as one of the few countries where face-to-face meeting will be held during the month because of the leadership role Ghana is taking to build its Internet infrastructure.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">We will like on behalf of ICANN Africa to invite you to make the Ghana- Accra stakeholder meeting to be held at KOFI ANNAN CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN IT (KACE-AITI) Ghana, on Wednesday, 29 April, 2015 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm UTC a succes.<br><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><b>DETAILS FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION AS FOLLOWS:</b></p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><b>ICANN LINK:</b></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">URL for online participation adobeconnect is as follows:<a href="https://icann.adobeconnect.com/gse-Afr/" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://icann.adobeconnect.com/gse-Afr/</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">OPTION II for audio: call from skype <a href="tel:%2B1-877-860-3058" value="+18778603058" target="_blank">+1-877-860-3058</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">Participant code is 3247098257</p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px"><span style="line-height:1.38"><b>ISOC LINK:</b></span><br></p><p style="margin:6px 0px">Click to Join ISOC WebEx <br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fisoc.webex.com%2Fisoc%2Fj.php&h=EAQFO-PUH&enc=AZNZYID_cTK2lanbUIDLUGRE4VyW7MOel7P-_QItzXHTcGp40qwLhHbhrntwlQjr5rekWBRhZnh9n1My0Lx94iv7PaMflDZ5DTVjS60R2lMtTshSRz0qiA0H4tf8bvbhBFwmw2KEuPd_fHpHspNVF5Rvnx21zyyBtGz375snAMkwqA&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://isoc.webex.com/isoc/j.php</a>…</p><p style="margin:6px 0px">Meeting number: 920 597 444<br>Meeting password: IANA_Ghana</p><p style="margin:6px 0px 0px;display:inline">Join by phone<br>1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)<br>Access code: 920 597 444</p></div></div><div><br></div><div>Please do notify me when having difficulty connecting through the following details:</div><div><br></div><div>Skype: wisdom_dk</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a></div><div>Tel: <a href="tel:%2B233%20208128851" value="+233208128851" target="_blank">+233 208128851</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hope to see you all!!</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)<br></div><div>ICANN Fellow</div>Web/Open Government Platforms Specialist<br><div><div>National Information Technology Agency (NITA) <br></div><div>Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana</div><div>Tel; +233 20 812881</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:wisdom_dk@hotmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom_dk@hotmail.com</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh" target="_blank">wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>Skype: wisdom_dk</div><div>facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk<br></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.nita.gov.gh" target="_blank">www.nita.gov.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.data.gov.gh" target="_blank">www.data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.isoc.gh" target="_blank">www.isoc.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.itag.org.gh" target="_blank">www.itag.org.gh</a> <br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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