Hi Seun and all our afralo community members, Yes it was a challenging year in which internet network and tools played a master role, and for sure we are going to see a huge evolvement in our ways life, works and seems that with or out pandemic we are moving to the virtual. Happy New year for all. Freindly Chokri Le lun. 28 déc. 2020 à 4:04 PM, < afri-discuss-request@atlarge-lists.icann.org> a écrit :

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1. Re: WHAT A YEAR!! (TYokunbo Abiola)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TYokunbo Abiola <tyokunbo@yahoo.co.uk> To: Patricia Esther Akello <ekisesta@gmail.com>, Seun Ojedeji < seun.ojedeji@gmail.com>, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Cc: afri-discuss <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <muyiwacaleb@gmail.com> Bcc: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [AFRI-Discuss] WHAT A YEAR!! I disagree. This is one of the worst years in living memory.

On Thursday, 24 December 2020, 01:06:46 GMT-8, Barrack Otieno < otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Chair @Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> ,

Many thanks for the wise words that sum up the year 2020 and for your guidance during this unique year. Attached please find a Seasons greetings card from the AFTLD Secretariat to the AFRALO family.

Best Regards

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:08 AM Patricia Esther Akello <ekisesta@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Seun for the thoughtful message. a Merry Christmas to you too and all members of this community.

Stay safe, follow the SOPs as we await to embrace 2021 Regards Esther Patricia

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 8:53 AM Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele < muyiwacaleb@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Chair for this thoughtful note and reflection. Indeed a good year for the Internet Community.

This wishing you and everyone on the mailing list a happy holiday season with wishes of positive energy. May the forces work in our favour in the year 2021.

Caleb Ogundele

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Pelase exsuce typos adn errosr.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 11:55 PM Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

This is probably one of the most challenging year for us all, due to the impact of covid-19, some of us may have lost our jobs, while others may have lost loved ones, we've all be impacted one way or the other.

However without prejudice to the departed, it's good that we made it thus. I was reflecting on this year and came to the conclusion that it's the best year for the internet; lots more innovative use of the internet has emerged and while this is good news for internet growth, it also imply a call to more work and by extension to us as the home of internet end users within ICANN.

The second/third wave of the pandemic and the emergence of various strains of the virus brings me to encourage us all that we keep faith steadfast hoping that current emerging technologies will be able to catch-up by God's grace. The good thing is that we now have an idea of what 2021 will look like unlike 2020 which caught the world by surprise.

Our final newsletter for the year will be published sometime in January 2021 and I highlighted what our 2021 activities will look like, as we shall be putting more efforts towards implementation of our fy21 outreach and engagement strategy.

I urge us to continue to stay safe and put our health and that of our loved ones first during this holiday, and for those that celebrate Christmas/New year let us try to ensure to observe all necessary preventive measures and I trust that we will come out of this stronger.

On behalf of the AFRALO leadership, here is to wish us all happy holiday and look forward to welcoming one another to a new year!

Merry Christmas to our colleagues that celebrate that as well.

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