Africa DNS Forum Happening tomorrow

[Benjamin Akinmoyeje]

Dear Farz,
Thank you for sharing and I completely agree with you.
Unfortunately this meeting has not come up on any of the ICANN related
platforms I participate in Nigeria and regional.  I believe it is important
to have been involved during the planning of the meeting.
The awareness for this event was limited (personal opinion); that limited
opportunity to influence the content, the meeting also coincides with the
Nigeria Internet Governance Forum 2018.  Both meeting will be requiring the
same sets of multi-stakeholders at least those from Nigeria.

I hope they do some adjustment to include civil society concerns and
registrants rights.

Maybe we can have NCUC and NCSG members in Cotonou participate, the meeting
does not seem to have remote participation arrangement.


Regards,
Benjamin

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 5:50 PM, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Africa DNS Forum is going to happen tomorrow.
>
> Here is the website: https://dnsforum.africa/
>
>
> This is the program: https://dnsforum.africa/wp-content/uploads/
> 2018/06/Draft-Agenda-Africa-DNS-Forum-2018.pdf
>
>
> Like many of the other regional DNS Forums (we had some improvement in the
> Middle EastDNS Forum), looking at the agenda, it is very industry oriented
> with not much focus on registrants rights. The program looks very similar
> to GDD summit while ICANN argues that it's for all the regional
> stakeholders to attend and bring the perspectives. While this is not closed
> to civil society, I do not see any domain name registrants' rights
> perspective sessions except the GDPR session which has a compliance focus.
> We also don't know who the speakers will be. We have not been able to
> change this unfortunately in many of the regional DNS forum and be included
> in the program (other than the Middle East DNS Forum).
>
> Is anyone from NCSG attending? DNS forums should become good occasions to
> discuss regional problems that domain name registrants face and how their
> rights are impacted. I am not sure at the moment we see any of that.
>
> Best
>
>
>
>
> Farzaneh
>
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