Hello All, Regarding the AFRALO-AfrICANN joint meeting in Toronto, the theme proposed by Mohamed Bashir on ICANN African Strategy and seconded by many of us, is a very good and timely one. However, as the ASWG is asking for inputs on the same theme, for the same period and from the same community, I don’t think it would be a good idea to run an almost parallel consultation on it. Therefore, I would like to suggest for your appreciation “*the creation of a development Fund” initiated by ICANN*, to support the developing countries’ active participation in the whole ICANN process and to facilitate their integration in the Internet domain industry . This fund could be supported by other partners and its management style would have to be defined Please provide your feed-back as soon as possible and not later than Thursday 20 September 2012 Thank you all and best regards, Fatimata -- Fatimata Seye Sylla