[npoc-voice] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Re: Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Nairobi, Kenya July 6 - 8 2015

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi,

Thanks Olevie for sharing this. the African DNS forum becomes definitely an
annual an regular event.

But I would like to respond to Sam comments below. I am really surprised by
his assumptions about NCSG members.

I think that he is missing some facts here. NCSG members always discussed
development issues within ICANN context and championed it in GNSO. we are a
diverse group and such issues are close to our members from developing
regions and beyond, myself coming from north africa. Those members have the
expertise and awareness regarding development concerns. we have many who
are advocating about social and economics rights here and many with
experience in ground for Internet and development , like  APC which is
based in south africa and active in Africa. NCSG also sent many councillors
from Africa, Asia and LAC to the GNSO council, which is rarely the case of
other parts of the GNSO. that was possible because our members recognized
their expertise and ability to represent non-commercial interests there.

Such DNS forum comes from the community work for Africa ICANN strategy and
Middle East and North Africa ICANN strategy,for example was Amr  part of
the latter. the main goal of such event is to work on practical solutions ,
being more actions-oriented and bringing a lot of awareness. for example
having more accredited registrars means going through a long process  and a
lot of work to do beforehand to be ready. such forum will help prospective
entrepreneurs to work more effectively or existing registrars to improve
their operations.  The forum itself is organized in cooperation with
experienced regional organizations and aligned with they are doing already.

NCSG councillors pushed the issue of new gTLD support for applicant from
developing countries in 2010 meeting in Nairobi and the ICANN board made
resolution in that time to start such process (
https://features.icann.org/2010-03-12-support-applicants-requesting-new-gtld-applicants
). a cross-community working was formed between GNSO and ALAC (called JAS)
in that time and I co-chaired that WG which submitted a report (
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8455565) with
several recommendations going beyond financial support. the working group
included many NCSG members.  We understood that financial barrier made with
the applicant guidebook e.g. application fees or contingency plan is just a
part of the problem but we also advised about focusing on infrastructure
part, working in solution like shared regional back-end service registry
operator. while also working on the gTLD registry issue, we also raised the
issue regarding the few number of registrars in Africa. unfortunately,
ICANN acted quite late and there was no real outreach effort to get more
applicants. that is something we have to fix in next rounds and the JAS WG
can reactivated for that and update its work.

at least it is chance to give to newcomers a quick overview about was done
here in a particular topic.

Best,

Rafik

2014-12-24 6:43 GMT+09:00 Olévié Kouami <olivierkouami at gmail.com>:

> OK. Sam.
> It's done !
> Cheers
>
> 2014-12-23 2:33 GMT+00:00 Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca>:
>
>>  Olevie,
>>
>> Do you want to post this on the NCSG list as well? Too many of our
>> colleagues under-estimate the depth of knowledge on these matters in
>> Africa.
>> It is like confusing poor nutrition because one is poor, with poor
>> nutrition because one knows nothing about nutrition,
>> DNS activity in Africa is limited because infrastructure is scare, not
>> because of ignorance.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> . On 22/12/2014 4:29 PM, Olévié Kouami wrote:
>>
>> Please, FYI.
>> Cheers !
>> -Olevie-
>>
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>> Date : 22 décembre 2014 20:07
>> Objet : [AfrICANN-discuss] Re: Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held
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