Africa DNS Forum Happening tomorrow

[Joly MacFie]

Please note that an IGF is also scheduled to take place in Nigeria today &
tomorrow.

They have booked a livestream slot.
https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/nigf2018/

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:07 PM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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