Dear Community members,

We hope this email finds you well and in good health.

Thanks so much for your contributions, suggestions and your expression to join the Draft team to the call for topics for the Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN statement for the ICANN77 policy Forum Meeting.

Big Thanks to Samuel Kariuki, Hadia El Miniawi , Amina Ramallan  and AMESSINOU Kossi for suggesting the topics.

Here is a summary of the discussion.

  1. “A Regional Perspective: The next round of new gTLDs “ suggested By Hadia El Miniawi

Supported by : +1 Sarah T. Kiden; +1 Keolebogile Rantsetse

  1. “Improvement of  African Participation in ICANN”  suggested by Samwel Kariuki

Supported by : +1Aziz Hilali ; +1 Fatimata Seye Sylla ; +1 Hadia Miniawi ;+1 Amina Ramallan;

3.     ‘’Child Online Safety in Africa post covid-19 pandemic’’  suggested By Amina Ramallan;

4.     ‘’Achieving digital inclusion in Africa through Universal Acceptance adoption’’ suggested By Amina Ramallan;

Supported by : +1 Hadia Miniawi ;

5.     ‘’Restructuring of the multistakeholder model in the global internet ecosystem including that of ICANN ‘’suggested by AMESSINOU Kossi

As you know following the mailing list, our topic for the Statement will be : “Improvement of  African Participation in ICANN ' ' suggested by Samwel Kariuki  who had received most support from the community.

For the drafting team you will receive an email tomorrow morning for the next step.

Best regards



Kind regards,

Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong

AFRALO Secrétariat

(On behalf of AFRALO Leadership Team)