Greetings Please find attached comments from the Swahili ICANNWiki ambassadors in East Africa. Our comments bellow and also found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q-LvjaRM54jgKLIIWi089qPpI3r7-okHKlzSK5mg... Regards Rebecca " Today, nearly 400 students from secondary schools as well as colleges and an even larger number from different internet stakeholders benefit directly or indirectly from our Swahili encyclopedic resource that boasts of over 500+ articles in just under a year. Women and youth in the sphere of internet governance have less participation due to lack of platforms to introduce them, their chances of learning in a classroom setting about these issues is very minimal.Through the Swahili ICANNWiki initiative, more women and youth have being engaged in the multistakeholder approach.This critical resource is built through regional Edit-a-thons, capacity building workshops and Internet governance panels held throughout East Africa (Nairobi, Arusha and Dodoma).The East African Swahili project strives to create 5,000 Internet Governance articles/glossary for the 150 million Swahili speakers by 2020. With ICANN announcing that it will not renew its support for ICANNWiki, all these milestones and aspirations hang in the balance. The ending of sponsorship of ICANNWiki work from ICANN will serve as a setback for the majority of women and youths that still haven’t being reached through this workshops. As language plays a prime factor in helping connect the Next one Billion of Internet users, We (ICANNWiki Swahili Ambassadors) join the rest of the Internet community to appeal to ICANN to reconsider its decision, in the quest to propel the Wiki localization initiatives, so that we can keep enjoying the satisfaction of a job well done, as well as meditate about the new paths we are yet to discover. We thus look forward to ICANN’s, and everyone else’s continued role in making ICANNWiki projects so meaningful and rewarding to the East Africa Internet community. Signed 1.Rebecca Ryakitimbo,Co-founder and director of development TechChix,ISOC Youth@IGF 2017 fellow,Co-founder Digital Grassroots 2. Jane Langoi,Co-founder and Executive Director TechChix Tanzania 3. Fatuma Mwanga,Programs and events manager TechChix-Tanzania 4. Zuhura Msisi,Attendee ICANNWiki edit-a-thon 2017,Intern at TZNIC 5. Diana Mokanga,TechChix-Tanzania member 6. Bonface Witaba, ICANN Fellow, ICT4D Facilitator, ICANNWiki Swahili Ambassador"