Dear Colleague, ICANN has concluded its second regional outreach meeting and first one in the Middle East and North Africa region in Dubai from 1 to 3 April 2008. I am happy to see such effort to join effort from stakeholders in the region to achieve ICANN mission. The meeting was for me a success, and will create new participation channel from our region. Mr Mohamed AL Ghanim, Director General, Telecom Regulatory Authority of UAE and Mr Paul Twomey, President & CEO, ICANN opened the meeting where special keynoter and personalities from region and outside as Mr Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman, TAGOrg, Director, Technical Affairs, TRA, Mohammed Gheyath, participated in launching the work. The first day was concluded after a presentation of the ICANN Multi stakeholder model and very good presentation of Dr Al Zoman about the Arabic Script. The second day was dedicated fully to the IDN where we were specially happy to see the work of the Arabic Script IDN Working Group (ASIWG). The third day was more focusing on business by presenting some registries and some success registrar story form region such as TAGDomains and KuwaitNet, and some presentation about the new gTLDs process. I hope that ICANN strategic plan is to organize another outreach meeting in Africa, as I am sure all of you agree with me that we need such meeting. This is why I hope that Anne-Rachel will do the best to help on this. Khaled KOUBAA _______________________________________________ Africanchapters mailing list Africanchapters@elists.isoc.org http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/africanchapters