<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Completely agree. I vote to approve the application.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Robin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 5, 2018, at 1:40 AM, Raoul Plommer via NCSG-EC <<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is" class="">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Ok, now that's better. I had a look at the guy and it seems it all checks out - he's also a fellow in Barcelona.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Raoul<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 August 2018 at 23:35, farzaneh badii via NCSG-EC <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is" target="_blank" class="">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hi </div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Considering Emmanuels response, I think we should approve Afrotribune. </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Emmanuel vitus Agbenonwossi</strong> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:emmanuelvitus@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">emmanuelvitus@gmail.com</a>></span><br class="">Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 3:06 AM<br class="">Subject: Re: Afrotribune<br class="">To: farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Hello Farnazeh.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Thank you for the mail. It's nice to reconnect with you.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">I have been observing your work and your vital contributions to ICANN and the internet governance as a whole. It is really impressive and I appreciate your humility and determination :). </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Concerning Afrotribune and the nature of its activity:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Forget the LLC mentioned under the signature of the membership application mail. This was the form that Afrotribune initially had in the US Before my return to Africa. But it was dissolved a year ago.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Afrotribune currently operates in Africa as a non-for-profit organization with headquarters in Accra, Ghana and also registered as a civil society organization in Togo. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Afrotribune currently has 47 active members composed of journalists, researchers, computer scientists, academics and political analysts.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Beyond the work of producing African content (Articles, Videos, Images) to enrich the Web with positive contents on Africa, we also participate in the debates on Internet governance including in the development of public policy and research work in the field of internet governance. We also provide policymakers especially the government with advice and expert views. We participated in ICANN's DNS Africa Research as an organization and also GISWatch report 2017 and 2018.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">We also contribute to several guest posts/Campaigns and petitions with other sister organizations like APC in recent months.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">I would like to be the official representative of the Afrotribune at NCSG. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">I hope this helps you.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Best Regards, </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="monospace, monospace" class="">Emmanuel </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small"><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4491260882920100845m_-6146249672172196721gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class=""><span style="line-height:18px" lang="FR" class="">**************<br class=""></span></span></font></b></p><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class=""><b class="">Emmanuel Vitus Agbenonwossi (M.A)</b><br class="">Web- Journalist | </span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8px;letter-spacing:0.2px" class="">Internet Policy Researcher</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8px;letter-spacing:0.2px" class="">[Last Research </span><a href="https://www.giswatch.org/fr/country/togo" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8px;letter-spacing:0.2px" target="_blank" class="">Global Information Society Watch 2017 </a><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8px;letter-spacing:0.2px" class="">]</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">YALI Fellow | AfriSIG 2016 | ICANN59</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="">Telephone: +1 (206) 420 - 9548 </span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8px" class="">|</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">+233 54 0880 152 </span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8px" class="">|</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> +228 92 38 22 23 </span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class=""><a href="https://afrotribune.com/" target="_blank" class="">Website</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/emmavitus" target="_blank" class="">Twitter</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><i style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><b class=""><font color="#00ff00" class="">Please consider your environmental responsibility. 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