Africa DNS Forum Happening tomorrow

[Olévié Kouami]

Greetings From Dakar, Senegal, West Africa.
Thank you so much dear chair Farzi. I'm very glad that you raised that
issue so clearly with thé organization of the Africa Regional DNS Forum.
Indeed, I'm following up this event in our region since year 2010 when I
was invited to attend for the first time. It's true that it's industry
oriented meeting and the civil society sector is treated as not in concern.
I've subscribed to attend  and I've receive a vague invitation letter to
attend the two events : Africa DNS Forum and the celebration of the 10
years of Africa in IG processes.
I'm actuelly in travel in Senegal which far From Cotonou and coule not
attend in person.
I agree that some part of this forum should have a concern with
non-commercial stakeholders of the région.
Only the ccTLDs representatives are participating.

@Benjamin : please, have you subscribe in AfrICANN mailing list ? Yaovi
Atohoun sent the announcement at least three or four times during these 2
months.

Finally, I too believe that, the NCSG with it 2 constituencies must be an
integral part in the organization of such an event in every region.
My 2 cents
Thanks again
Warm regards and cheers !




Le lun. 2 juil. 2018 00:08, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> 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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