Thanks Grace Just realized I even confirmed participation. Nikupitiliwa but
all is well.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Grace Githaiga <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> <https://dub111.mail.live.com/ol/>
>
> Yes James. This coming Thursday. See below. Please join the local lists
> for updates such as this invitation which went out last week and Barrack's
> is only a reminder.
>
>
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:04:59 +0300
> > Subject: Re: Invitation to a consultative forum for the Kenyan Internet
> Community on the transition of the IANA functions stewardship role from the
> US Government.
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > To: Dear Colleagues,
>
> The Kenyan Internet community will hold a consultative forum at the
> Nairobi Safari Club (Lillian Towers), University Way, on Thursday
> 30th April 2015 from 2 PM on the IANA Functions Stewardship
> Transition from NTIA to the global multistakeholder community, and
> Enhancing ICANN Accountability.
>
> This email is to invite you to the event, and also solicit comments
> and feedback from the Kenyan community from those who cannot attend
> the face to face meeting on the transition of the IANA functions
> stewardship role from the US Government.
>
> Please give feedback using this short survey here, and also share it
> with your networks: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NXSQ7FG
>
>
> Please RSVP for logistics purposes.
> NB: Parking can be accessed at the Nairobi Safari club parking
> opposite Uchumi Supermarket (former Kengeles Grounds)
>
> BACKGROUND
>
> On 14th March 2014, the U.S. Government announced its intent to
> transition its stewardship of the IANA functions to the global
> multistakeholder
> community:
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition-key-internet-domain-name-functions
> .
>
> Following this announcement, ICANN, was tasked with facilitating the
> development of a global, and representative proposal based on the
> following principles:
>
> 1. Support and enhance the multistakeholder model;
>
> 2. Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet DNS;
>
> 3. Meet the needs and expectation of the global customers and
> partners of the IANA services;
>
> 4. Maintain the openness of the Internet.
>
> 5. The proposal must not replace the NTIA role with a
> government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.
>
> The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) was formed in
> July 2014 (https://www.icann.org/en/stewardship), and tasked with
> assembling and delivering a proposal to NTIA through the ICANN Board.
> The ICG constituted three special interest groups representing the
> Domain Names community (NRO members), Numbering Resources community
> (CWG), and the Protocol Parameters community (IETF),
>
> ICG shall compile the proposals from the three communities into a
> single proposal which the ICG shall submit to the board for review,
> and the board shall forward the final proposal to NTIA.
>
> The three communities affected by IANA functions, IETF (handling
> protocol parameters), Numbering community - CRISP Team (under the
> umbrella of NRO), and Domain Names community (Cross Community Working
> Group) have released proposals on how the IANA transition should be
> handles.
>
> Number resource process and proposal can be found here:
>
> https://www.nro.net/nro-and-internet-governance/iana-oversight/consolidated-rir-iana-stewardship-proposal-team-crisp-team
>
> IETF process and proposal can be found here:
> https://www.ietf.org/iana-transition.html
>
> Domain names community process and proposal can be found here:
>
> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocwgdtstwrdshp/CWG+to+Develop+an+IANA+Stewardship+Transition+Proposal+on+Naming+Related+Functions
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Best Regards
>
> --
> Barrack O. Otieno
> +254721325277
> +254-20-2498789
> Skype: barrack.otieno
> http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:06:18 +0300
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ICANN AFRICA IANA STEWARDSHIP STAKEHOLDER MEETING IN ACCRA,
> GHANA
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Hello all! I like the idea and fully support the process I am a Kenyan
> living in Nairobi and would like to know whether there is a stakeholder
> F-To-F meeting scheduled for Nairobi City.
>
> Regards;
>
>
> James Njoroge Gitau
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Wisdom Donkor <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
> *INVITATION TO JOIN ICANN IANA STEWARDSHIP TRANSITION & ENHANCING ICANN
> ACCOUNTABILITY STAKEHOLDER MEETING IN GHANA*
>
> About a year ago National Telecommunications and Information
> Administration (NITA) of the Department of Commerce, USA tasked ICANN to
> convene an inclusive and global discussion to determine a process for
> transitioning the stewardship of IANA functions which it currently performs
> to the global multistakeholder community. Indeed since that announcement,
> the global community has worked tirelessly and with great resilience and
> determination resulting in two parallel processes in response to the 14
> March announcement. This has seen the multistakeholder community develop
> two parallel processes namely:
>
>
>
> - *IANA Stewardship Transition:* Focused on delivering a proposal to
> transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder
> community.
> - *Enhancing ICANN Accountability:* Focused on ensuring that ICANN
> remains accountable in the absence of its historical contractual
> relationship with the U.S. Government.
>
>
> As a neutral convener of the dialogue, ICANN has an important
> responsibility of raising awareness about the processes as they evolve and
> to support the community's engagement. Of great concern is the low level of
> meaningful participation witnessed so far from Africa. In 2014, ICANN
> participated in 11 events and 5 webinars / teleconferences to raise
> awareness on this issue in Africa. But clearly, from the response so far, a
> lot still needs to be done to stimulate the African community to
> participate effectively.
>
>
> It is based on this background and analysis that the ICANN Africa team
> resolved to launch an* IANA Stewardship Transition & Enhancing ICANN
> Accountability *revival month in April 2015. The target is to organize
> 1-2 hour sessions / webinars / teleconferences or face-to-face meetings in
> various countries' in Africa at different times and dates led by local
> community leaders and stakeholders in the internal ecosystem at the
> National Level. ICANN staff will be available to support and reinforce the
> meetings either by contributing on presentations as well as online meeting
> resources as appropriate. The intention is to end up with formal communiqué
> from different countries on their perspective on both processes at least
> from each country where such meetings will be held. Such communiqué could
> be addressed to the ICG as appropriate.
>
>
> By the end of this exercise, we hope to have stirred debate and enhanced
> the understanding and interest of the Internet communities in the countries
> participating to come up with national positions, Comments or Communiqué to
> the ICG. Such communiqués will not be limited to governments but other
> stakeholder groups in the various countries (Such as ISOC chapters,
> registrar associations etc.) would also be free to express their positions
> directly to the ICG. ICANN Africa staff would also summarize the month's
> activities in a blog post to be published at the end of April.
>
> Ghana has been selected as one of the few countries where face-to-face
> meeting will be held during the month because of the leadership role Ghana
> is taking to build its Internet infrastructure.
>
>
> We will like on behalf of ICANN Africa to invite you to make the Ghana-
> Accra stakeholder meeting to be held at KOFI ANNAN CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN
> IT (KACE-AITI) Ghana, on Wednesday, 29 April, 2015 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
> UTC a succes.
>
> *DETAILS FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION AS FOLLOWS:*
>
>
> *ICANN LINK:*
>
> URL for online participation adobeconnect is as follows:
> https://icann.adobeconnect.com/gse-Afr/
>
> OPTION II for audio: call from skype +1-877-860-3058
>
> Participant code is 3247098257
>
>
> *ISOC LINK:*
>
> Click to Join ISOC WebEx
> https://isoc.webex.com/isoc/j.php
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> ...
>
> Meeting number: 920 597 444
> Meeting password: IANA_Ghana
>
> Join by phone
> 1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)
> Access code: 920 597 444
>
> Please do notify me when having difficulty connecting through the
> following details:
>
> Skype: wisdom_dk
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Tel: +233 208128851
>
> Hope to see you all!!
>
>
> WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)
> ICANN Fellow
> Web/Open Government Platforms Specialist
> National Information Technology Agency (NITA)
> Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana
> Tel; +233 20 812881
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh
>
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