Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. The ICANN68 Meeting is scheduled for 22-25 June 2020. This meeting will be virtual. As with previous ICANN meetings, we plan to hold the Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN meeting. We would like to invite you to submit topics for this session. Our previous statements have focused on issues like: Domain Name System (DNS) Abuse, evolving the ICANN Multistakeholder model, New gTLD Subsequent Procedures, enhancing ICANN accountability, etc. Please see our previous statements here <https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/Joint+AFRALO-AfrICANN+Statements+...> . Please see our proposed timeline: Call for topics and drafting team: 15 - 22 May 2020 Drafting of Statement: 23 May - 6 June 2020 Send Statement to Staff for translation: 7 June 2020 Please send your suggested topics by Friday, 22 May 2020, after which the drafting team will be constituted to prepare a draft statement that will be shared with the rest of the members. If you would like to join the drafting team, kindly notify us offlist. Looking forward to your contributions. Kind regards, Sarah Kiden AFRALO Secretariat