Dear Madam Chairman, You have our support for this proposal-Creation of a Development Fund. This has always been our call that, ICANN makes funding available for African full integration into the ICANN process. As it is today, the visibility given to ICANN in Africa is from AFRALO and whose members are majorly from the Civil Society. In this wise, I think time has come for we to access fund to carry  out more activities on the ICANN process to encourage more interest and awareness about ICANN in Africa. For those going to Toronto, I wish you all well as I missed the deadline for the application-I did not get any reminded from ICANN as usual for Toronto. Hopefully, South Africa 2013 is around the corner and may I suggest that AFRALO begin in earnest to prepare a much more better outing than Senegal-I mean we should improve upon what have started in Dakar. To which I should suggest that, the AFRALO Capacity building should not just be for the ALS that must be at the event but for local civil society groups that we should invite to attend the events and should benefit from our own experience, to which will give ICANN more visibility about its process. From the three ICANN Conferences I have been opportune to attend, apart from members of the ICANN community, very little or no participants attend from the ordinary local community. Once again I hope you all are well wherever you are. Best regards. Pastor Peters OMORAGBON International Liaison Officer-Nigerian Nurses Chairtable Association-UK (NNCA-UK) President Diaspora Nurses Association of Nigeria-DNANExecutive President/CEO  Nurses Across the Borders Humanitarian Initiative-Inc.-(Nigeria & U.S.A) An NGO On Special Consultative Status with The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations-(ECOSOC) Designated Focal Person,United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Board Member, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations-CONGO Member, Steering Committee, Regional Committee for Africa-CONGO Fellow, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers-ICANNFellow, Open Society Institute-OSI Budapest Email:nursesacrosstheborders@yahoo.com URL: www.nursesacrosstheborders.org --- On Sun, 16/9/12, Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@gmail.com> wrote: From: Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@gmail.com> Subject: [AFRI-Discuss] AFRALO-AfrICANN joint meeting theme for Toronto To: afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org, africann@afrinic.net Date: Sunday, 16 September, 2012, 20:45 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 _______________________________________________ AFRI-Discuss mailing list AFRI-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/afri-discuss Homepage for the region: http://www.afralo.org Posting guidelines to ensure machine translations of emails sent to this list are more accurate: http://www.funredes.org/mistica/english/emec/method_emec/presentation.html#a...

Dear Fatimata, Thank you for the interesting theme, you have my support it's a step forward on the right direction in the right time from ICANN perspective as we have a new CEO focusing on ICANN's development impact . Am sure that This idea and the session outcome will be considered by strategy WG as the community contribution towards the future implementation of ICANN/Africa strategic Objectives . Thanks Kind Regards, Mohamed On 16 Sep 2012, at 20:45, Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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Dear Fatimata, Thank you for your message and for the proposed theme for our upcoming joint meeting in Toronto. As I said previously and I’m sorry to repeat myself, the proposition of Mohamed was the best one and I was not seeing any conflict with the work of the ASWG. The ASWG is working to propose an ICANN strategy document for African with the inputs from the entire African Internet Community. I was thinking that the joint Afralo-Africann meeting on ICANN Africa Strategy can come out with a view of this specific community and a document presenting the most common propositions from that community. And that document can be exploited by the ASWG as far as AFRALO-AFRICANN and the ASWG are officially different entities. The theme you are proposed can simply be part of the propositions of Afralo-Africann community to the ASWG. We can manage to see how the Afralo-Africann joint meeting in Toronto can be organized before the ASWG one. If we organize our meeting on that theme, It will be like we are presenting the outcomes of the ASWG work before them and that can also conflict. Also, I would like to mention regarding to your proposed theme that the ICANN Fellowship is already there to support developing countries participation in ICANN and others mechanisms to support RALOs are already there. I think and others can agree with me that what we urgently need are mechanisms to develop domain industry in Africa. Domain names are one and the most important part of ICANN work (business) and I believe that Africa will never efficiently participate in ICANN if there is not real development of domain names industry in the continent. I would also like to remind others colleagues that ICANN deals with domain names, IP addresses and policies around them; ICANN is not about global ICT development and we have to understand that and be more specific when formulating our propositions. We cannot ask ICANN to do everything for us, we have our homework to do too. Finally, if we like it or not, the next Afralo-Africann meeting in Toronto will have an impact on the work of the ASWG. So let us agree on that and organize a meeting that will be helpful to the work of the ASWG. We have a chance to propose outlines for an ICANN strategy plan for our continent, let us put all our energy on that and help ICANN comes out with a strategy that will really make Africa “visible” on the ICANN ecosystem. Sorry for the quality of my English, I hope you will manage to understand what I’m trying to understand. Best regards, Victor Ndonnang. De : africann-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net] De la part de Fatimata Seye Sylla Envoyé : dimanche 16 septembre 2012 18:45 À : afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org; africann@afrinic.net Objet : [AfrICANN-discuss] AFRALO-AfrICANN joint meeting theme for Toronto 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