Dear colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. Please see attached a draft statement for the upcoming joint AFRALO/AfrICANN meeting scheduled for 1 November 2017 in Abu Dhabi, during the ICANN 60 meeting. The topic selected was General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). As agreed during the call for topics, a drafting team was constituted to write the statement. Please take a look at the document attached and get back to us in the next couple of days to allow us compile final comments/edits as well as translate the document into French. We would like to thank Barrack Otieno, Ali Hussein, Juliet Maina, Tijani Ben Jemaa, Seun Ojedeji, Aziz Hilali and all the people who contributed to drafting this statement. Kind regards, Sarah