Dear Ola I support the BC Outreach and offer a couple of suggestions. You are very generous to offer this greatly discounted sponsorship to the BC. I know that organizing a major event is both very time consuming, and very expensive. I have a couple of suggestions: BUT not to add to your costs, but that the Outreach Committee undertake some additional work to support BC Outreach during AfiCTA Summit and eNigeria. We should customize and improve our Fact Sheet: this cost should be absorbed by the BC budget, but the content will need some contributions from the Outreach Committee: I suggest that we update the two page fact sheet to give a new and interesting story and also reference some things we have done already -- so, a paragraph about Durban ICANN, where AfiCTA presented an award to the ICANN CEO/President; then on the back page of the two pager, let's make major changes -- have 2-3 sentences from our existing BC African members, a couple of BC members who are identified as doing business in Africa and whom you should be asking for sponsorship, such as Facebook, Google, [I will look at the membership of BC for others doing business in Africa on a large scale] then, also from 3-4 ICANNers: I suggest we invite Chris Mondini as a speaker on site but also have a short insert from him about e-friction; In the testimonials, we could ask Pierre as VP from the region; also a couple of other great friends and allies, and also that we perhaps invite a statement from Steve Crocker, the Chairman of the Board, recognizing his long standing to SSR and to ICANN. We should also reference the ICANN African Strategy, which Jimson has been an active contributor to. The front page should be a story about Africa as a growing contributor to the world's economic growth, and also reference a few business opportunities, and we can ask Chris Mondini to help us with a couple of paragraphs from their ongoing e-friction work. Jimson and I might also be able to get a statement from UNCTAD regarding e-trade. Then, we can have a column: Why business needs to speak up, and how to do that by engagement with the Business Community. And, Jimson and I can draft a paragraph or two about why we, as business, need to engage with governmental ministries to collaborate on policies that are business friendly, and also accountable to the users of the Internet. On the back page, we don't need all the names of our officers. That doesn't really matter.What matters is a message about Why You Should Join the BC and follow its work at ICANN. As we have just concluded ICANN60, we can have a box with the next 6 meeting slots. Finally, maybe we can discuss inviting also a business leader from Libya, Morocco, or Tunisia, so that we can grow the presence of business from North African countries in ICANN. ________________________________ From: bc-outreach-bounces@icann.org <bc-outreach-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Arinola Akinyemi <jolakin69@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:37 AM To: bc-outreach@icann.org Cc: addconsortium@digisphere.com.ng Subject: [Bc-outreach] BC Outreach as Session Event @ AfICTA Summit 2017 Dear Outreach Committee Members, The above subject matter refers. The BC is invited to conduct an Outreach as a session event during AfICTA’s annual Summit which is scheduled to take place November 7-9 in Abuja, in conjunction with eNigeria powered by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) under the auspices of the Ministry of Communications. This will further BC engagement with more than 30 African nation members of AfICTA towards increased awareness of the BC/ICANN mission and objectives. Attached is the proposal for the outreach as I look forward to your positive consideration. Kind regards, Arinola Akinyemi (Ms) CEO (OMAR VENTURES LIMITED & DIGISPHERE INVESTMENT LIMITED) Founder, DigiSphere Center for Digital Creativity Board Member, Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA) www.digisphere.com.ng<http://www.digisphere.com.ng/>